Occupations grouped by Percentage of Unemployment

Very low: percentage of unemployment less than 2.5%

• Accountants and auditors
• Actuaries
• Administrative law judges, adjudicators, and hearing officers
• Administrative services managers
• Aerospace engineers
• Agricultural engineers
• Air traffic controllers
• Airfield operations specialists
• Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers
• Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians
• Animal scientists
• Animal trainers
• Anthropologists and archeologists
• Appraisers and assessors of real estate
• Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators
• Architects, except landscape and naval
• Atmospheric and space scientists
• Audio-visual collections specialists
• Audiologists
• Bailiffs
• Barbers
• Biochemists and biophysicists
• Biological scientists, all other
• Biomedical engineers
• Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists
• Cardiovascular technologists and technicians
• Cartographers and photogrammetrists
• Chemical engineers
• Chemists
• Chief executives
• Child, family, and school social workers
• Chiropractors
• Civil engineers
• Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators
• Clergy
• Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists
• Commercial pilots
• Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation
• Conservation scientists
• Construction and building inspectors
• Construction managers
• Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door
• Correctional officers and jailers
• Correspondence clerks
• Cost estimators
• Court, municipal, and license clerks
• Dental assistants
• Dental hygienists
• Dentists, all other specialists
• Dentists, general
• Detectives and criminal investigators
• Diagnostic medical sonographers
• Dietetic technicians
• Dietitians and nutritionists
• Directors, religious activities and education
• Education administrators, all other
• Education administrators, elementary and secondary school
• Education administrators, postsecondary
• Education administrators, preschool and child care center/program
• Education, training, and library workers, all other
• Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment
• Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay
• Elementary school teachers, except special education
• Eligibility interviewers, government programs
• Emergency medical technicians and paramedics
• Engineering managers
• Environmental engineers
• Environmental scientists and specialists, including health
• Epidemiologists
• Farm and home management advisors
• Farm, ranch, and other agricultural managers
• Farmers and ranchers
• Financial analysts
• Financial examiners
• Financial managers
• Financial specialists, all other
• Fire fighters
• First-line supervisors/managers of correctional officers
• First-line supervisors/managers of fire fighting and prevention workers
• First-line supervisors/managers of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers
• First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers
• First-line supervisors/managers of non-retail sales workers
• First-line supervisors/managers of personal service workers
• First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives
• First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers
• Fish and game wardens
• Food scientists and technologists
• Foresters
• Funeral directors
• Gaming cage workers
• Gaming supervisors
• Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators
• General and operations managers
• Geographers
• Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers
• Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists
• Health diagnosing and treating practitioners, all other
• Healthcare technologists and technicians, all other
• Historians
• Hydrologists
• Industrial-organizational psychologists
• Information and record clerks, all other
• Instructional coordinators
• Insurance appraisers, auto damage
• Insurance sales agents
• Insurance underwriters
• Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates
• Kindergarten teachers, except special education
• Landscape architects
• Lawyers
• Legislators
• Librarians
• Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
• Life scientists, all other
• Loan counselors
• Loan officers
• Locksmiths and safe repairers
• Locomotive engineers and operators
• Logisticians
• Managers, all other
• Marine engineers and naval architects
• Massage therapists
• Materials engineers
• Materials scientists
• Mathematical scientists, all other
• Mathematical technicians
• Mathematicians
• Mechanical door repairers
• Mechanical engineers
• Medical and clinical laboratory technicians
• Medical and clinical laboratory technologists
• Medical and health services managers
• Medical and public health social workers
• Medical records and health information technicians
• Medical scientists, except epidemiologists
• Mental health and substance abuse social workers
• Meter readers, utilities
• Microbiologists
• Middle school teachers, except special and vocational education
• Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers
• Natural sciences managers
• New accounts clerks
• Nuclear engineers
• Nuclear medicine technologists
• Nuclear power reactor operators
• Occupational therapist aides
• Occupational therapist assistants
• Occupational therapists
• Operations research analysts
• Opticians, dispensing
• Optometrists
• Oral and maxillofacial surgeons
• Orthodontists
• Orthotists and prosthetists
• Paperhangers
• Parking enforcement workers
• Payroll and timekeeping clerks
• Personal financial advisors
• Petroleum engineers
• Pharmacists
• Pharmacy technicians
• Physical scientists, all other
• Physical therapist aides
• Physical therapist assistants
• Physical therapists
• Physician assistants
• Physicians and surgeons
• Podiatrists
• Police and sheriff's patrol officers
• Political scientists
• Postal service clerks
• Postal service mail carriers
• Postmasters and mail superintendents
• Postsecondary teachers
• Power distributors and dispatchers
• Power plant operators
• Preschool teachers, except special education
• Property, real estate, and community association managers
• Prosthodontists
• Psychiatric technicians
• Psychologists, all other
• Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers
• Purchasing agents and buyers, farm products
• Purchasing managers
• Radiation therapists
• Radiologic technologists and technicians
• Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators
• Railroad conductors and yardmasters
• Real estate brokers
• Real estate sales agents
• Recreational therapists
• Registered nurses
• Religious workers, all other
• Respiratory therapists
• Respiratory therapy technicians
• Sales engineers
• Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education
• Signal and track switch repairers
• Slot key persons
• Social scientists and related workers, all other
• Social workers, all other
• Sociologists
• Soil and plant Scientists
• Special education teachers, middle school
• Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school
• Special education teachers, secondary school
• Speech-language pathologists
• Stationary engineers and boiler operators
• Statisticians
• Supervisors, farming, fishing, and forestry workers
• Surgical technologists
• Surveyors
• Therapists, all other
• Tire builders
• Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners
• Transit and railroad police
• Urban and regional planners
• Veterinarians
• Veterinary technologists and technicians
• Vocational education teachers, middle school
• Vocational education teachers, secondary school
• Water and liquid waste treatment plant and system operators
• Wellhead pumpers
• Zoologists and wildlife biologists

Low: percentage of unemployment 2.5% to 4.0%

• Adult literacy, remedial education, and GED teachers and instructors
• Aerospace engineering and operations technicians
• Agricultural and food science technicians
• Aircraft cargo handling supervisors
• Aircraft mechanics and service technicians
• Animal breeders
• Animal control workers
• Archivists
• Art directors
• Artists and related workers, all other
• Athletic trainers
• Audio and video equipment technicians
• Automotive body and related repairers
• Automotive glass installers and repairers
• Automotive service technicians and mechanics
• Baggage porters and bellhops
• Billing and posting clerks and machine operators
• Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
• Broadcast news analysts
• Broadcast technicians
• Budget analysts
• Bus drivers, school
• Bus drivers, transit and intercity
• Business operation specialists, all other
• Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters
• Camera and photographic equipment repairers
• Cargo and freight agents
• Chemical equipment operators and tenders
• Chemical plant and system operators
• Chemical technicians
• Civil engineering technicians
• Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
• Commercial and industrial designers
• Community and social service specialists, all other
• Compensation and benefits managers
• Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
• Computer and information scientists, research
• Computer and information systems managers
• Computer operators
• Computer software engineers, applications
• Computer software engineers, systems software
• Computer specialists, all other
• Computer systems analysts
• Concierges
• Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders
• Counselors, all other
• Court reporters
• Craft artists
• Credit analysts
• Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
• Curators
• Database administrators
• Dental laboratory technicians
• Designers, all other
• Desktop publishers
• Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance
• Editors
• Educational, vocational, and school counselors
• Electrical and electronic engineering technicians
• Electrical engineers
• Electrical power-line installers and repairers
• Electro-mechanical technicians
• Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles
• Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers
• Electronics engineers, except computer
• Elevator installers and repairers
• Emergency management specialists
• Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists
• Engineering technicians, except drafters, all other
• Engineers, all other
• Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other
• Environmental engineering technicians
• Executive secretaries and administrative assistants
• Fabric and apparel patternmakers
• Farm equipment mechanics
• Fashion designers
• Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators
• Fire inspectors and investigators
• 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 office and administrative support workers
• First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers
• First-line supervisors/managers of transportation and material-moving machine and vehicle operators
• First-line supervisors/managers, protective service workers, all other
• Floral designers
• Food service managers
• Forest fire inspectors and prevention specialists
• Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders
• Gaming managers
• Gas plant operators
• Graphic designers
• Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors
• Health educators
• Healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other
• Healthcare support workers, all other
• Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
• Home appliance repairers
• Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping
• Human resources managers, all other
• Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists, all other
• Industrial engineering technicians
• Industrial engineers
• Industrial machinery mechanics
• Industrial production managers
• Insurance claims and policy processing clerks
• Interior designers
• Interpreters and translators
• Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
• Job printers
• Law clerks
• Legal secretaries
• Legal support workers, all other
• Library assistants, clerical
• Loan interviewers and clerks
• Lodging managers
• Maintenance and repair workers, general
• Makeup artists, theatrical and performance
• Management analysts
• Manicurists and pedicurists
• Market research analysts
• Marketing managers
• Marriage and family therapists
• Mechanical engineering technicians
• Media and communication workers, all other
• Medical appliance technicians
• Medical assistants
• Medical equipment preparers
• Medical equipment repairers
• Medical secretaries
• Medical transcriptionists
• Mental health counselors
• Merchandise displayers and window trimmers
• Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines
• Model makers, wood
• Multi-media artists and animators
• Museum Technicians and Conservators
• Music directors and composers
• Musical instrument repairers and tuners
• Musicians and singers
• Network and computer systems administrators
• Nonfarm animal caretakers
• Nuclear technicians
• Occupational health and safety specialists
• Occupational health and safety technicians
• Office and administrative support workers, all other
• Ophthalmic laboratory technicians
• Paralegals and legal assistants
• Parts salespersons
• Patternmakers, wood
• Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers
• Pharmacy aides
• Photographers
• Plant and system operators, all other
• Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Police, fire, and ambulance dispatchers
• Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
• Precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other
• Printing machine operators
• Private detectives and investigators
• Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists
• Procurement clerks
• Public relations specialists
• Radio mechanics
• Radio operators
• Rail car repairers
• Refractory materials repairers, except brickmasons
• Rehabilitation counselors
• Reporters and correspondents
• Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
• Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Sales and related workers, all other
• Sales managers
• Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products
• Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products
• Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive
• Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents
• Self-enrichment education teachers
• Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Set and exhibit designers
• Shampooers
• Shoe and leather workers and repairers
• Skin care specialists
• Social and community service managers
• Social and human service assistants
• Sound engineering technicians
• Statistical assistants
• Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors
• Survey researchers
• Tax examiners, collectors, and revenue agents
• Teacher assistants
• Teachers and instructors, all other
• Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers
• Tellers
• Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers
• Training and development managers
• Training and development specialists
• Transportation inspectors
• Transportation, storage, and distribution managers
• Upholsterers
• Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers
• Watch repairers
• Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products
• Woodworkers, all other

High: percentage of unemployment 4.1% to 6.4%

• Advertising and promotions managers
• Advertising sales agents
• Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes
• Architectural and civil drafters
• Athletes and sports competitors
• Bakers
• Bartenders
• Bill and account collectors
• Bindery workers
• Biological technicians
• Bookbinders
• Bridge and lock tenders
• Brokerage clerks
• Building cleaning workers, all other
• Butchers and meat cutters
• Carpet installers
• Cementing and gluing machine operators and tenders
• Chefs and head cooks
• Child care workers
• Coaches and scouts
• Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Commercial divers
• Communications equipment operators, all other
• Computer hardware engineers
• Computer programmers
• Computer support specialists
• Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers
• Computer-controlled machine tool operators, metal and plastic
• Construction and related workers, all other
• Continuous mining machine operators
• Conveyor operators and tenders
• Counter and rental clerks
• Couriers and messengers
• Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Customer service representatives
• Demonstrators and product promoters
• Derrick operators, oil and gas
• Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers
• Drafters, all other
• Dredge operators
• Driver/sales workers
• Earth drillers, except oil and gas
• Economists
• Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers
• Electrical and electronics drafters
• Electricians
• Embalmers
• Environmental science and protection technicians, including health
• Etchers and engravers
• Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators
• Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters
• Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Fabric menders, except garment
• Fallers
• File clerks
• Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors
• Flight attendants
• Floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles
• Floor sanders and finishers
• Food batchmakers
• Food servers, nonrestaurant
• Forensic science technicians
• Forest and conservation technicians
• Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Funeral attendants
• Furniture finishers
• Gaming and sports book writers and runners
• Gaming dealers
• Gaming service workers, all other
• Geological and petroleum technicians
• Glaziers
• Grinding and polishing workers, hand
• Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Highway maintenance workers
• Home health aides
• Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other
• Insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall
• Insulation workers, mechanical
• Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners
• Laundry and dry-cleaning workers
• Library technicians
• Life, physical, and social science technicians, all other
• Loading machine operators, underground mining
• Log graders and scalers
• Logging equipment operators
• Logging workers, all other
• Machinists
• Maids and housekeeping cleaners
• Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service
• Maintenance workers, machinery
• Material moving workers, all other
• Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers
• Mechanical drafters
• Meeting and convention planners
• Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders
• Mine cutting and channeling machine operators
• Mining machine operators, all other
• Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Models
• Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic
• Motor vehicle operators, all other
• Network systems and data communications analysts
• Numerical tool and process control programmers
• Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants
• Office clerks, general
• Office machine operators, except computer
• Order clerks
• Painters, transportation equipment
• Painting, coating, and decorating workers
• Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Parking lot attendants
• Personal care and service workers, all other
• Pest control workers
• Physicists
• Pipelayers
• Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
• Pourers and casters, metal
• Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials
• Producers and directors
• Production, planning, and expediting clerks
• Proofreaders and copy markers
• Psychiatric aides
• Public address system and other announcers
• Public relations managers
• Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products
• Radio and television announcers
• Receptionists and information clerks
• Recreation workers
• Residential advisors
• Retail salespersons
• Riggers
• Roof bolters, mining
• Rotary drill operators, oil and gas
• Sales representatives, services, all other
• Security and fire alarm systems installers
• Segmental pavers
• Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners
• Service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining
• Sewers, hand
• Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
• Shuttle car operators
• Slaughterers and meat packers
• Social science research assistants
• Structural metal fabricators and fitters
• Surveying and mapping technicians
• Switchboard operators, including answering service
• Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers
• Taxi drivers and chauffeurs
• Telecommunications line installers and repairers
• Tile and marble setters
• Tool and die makers
• Traffic technicians
• Transportation attendants, except flight attendants and baggage porters
• Transportation workers, all other
• Travel agents
• Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer
• Truck drivers, light or delivery services
• Umpires, referees, and other sports officials
• Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping
• Word processors and typists
• Writers and authors

Very high: percentage of unemployment greater then 6.4%

• Actors
• Agricultural equipment operators
• Agricultural inspectors
• Agricultural workers, all other
• Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers
• Amusement and recreation attendants
• Assemblers and fabricators, all other
• Avionics technicians
• Bicycle repairers
• Boilermakers
• Brickmasons and blockmasons
• Camera operators, television, video, and motion picture
• Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels
• Carpenters
• Cashiers, except gaming
• Cement masons and concrete finishers
• Choreographers
• Cleaners of vehicles and equipment
• Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders
• Coil winders, tapers, and finishers
• Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food
• Construction laborers
• Cooks, all other
• Cooks, fast food
• Cooks, institution and cafeteria
• Cooks, private household
• Cooks, restaurant
• Cooks, short order
• Costume attendants
• Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop
• Crane and tower operators
• Crossing guards
• 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
• Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers
• Dishwashers
• Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Drywall and ceiling tile installers
• Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
• Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment
• Electromechanical equipment assemblers
• Engine and other machine assemblers
• Entertainment attendants and related workers, all other
• Extraction workers, all other
• Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers
• Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse
• Farmworkers, farm and ranch animals
• Fence erectors
• Fiberglass laminators and fabricators
• Film and video editors
• Fishers and related fishing workers
• Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders
• Food cooking machine operators and tenders
• Food preparation and serving related workers, all other
• Food preparation workers
• Forest and conservation workers
• Foundry mold and coremakers
• Gaming change persons and booth cashiers
• Gaming surveillance officers and gaming investigators
• Graders and sorters, agricultural products
• Grounds maintenance workers, all other
• Hazardous materials removal workers
• Helpers—Brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters
• Helpers—Carpenters
• Helpers—Electricians
• Helpers—Extraction workers
• Helpers—Painters, paperhangers, plasterers, and stucco masons
• Helpers—Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
• Helpers—Roofers
• Helpers, construction trades, all other
• Helpers--Installation, maintenance, and repair workers
• Helpers--Production workers
• Hoist and winch operators
• Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop
• Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
• Hunters and trappers
• Industrial truck and tractor operators
• Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
• Interviewers, except eligibility and loan
• Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
• Landscaping and groundskeeping workers
• Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Lay-out workers, metal and plastic
• Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective service workers
• Locker room, coatroom, and dressing room attendants
• Machine feeders and offbearers
• Manufactured building and mobile home installers
• Media and communication equipment workers, all other
• Metal workers and plastic workers, all other
• Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Millwrights
• Model makers, metal and plastic
• Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Motion picture projectionists
• Motorboat mechanics
• Motorboat operators
• Motorcycle mechanics
• Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
• Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators
• Outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics
• Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
• Packers and packagers, hand
• Painters, construction and maintenance
• Patternmakers, metal and plastic
• Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators
• Personal and home care aides
• Pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, vegetation
• Photographic process workers
• Photographic processing machine operators
• Pile-driver operators
• Plasterers and stucco masons
• Prepress technicians and workers
• Production workers, all other
• Protective service workers, all other
• Rail transportation workers, all other
• Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
• Recreational vehicle service technicians
• Refuse and recyclable material collectors
• Reinforcing iron and rebar workers
• Rock splitters, quarry
• Roofers
• Roustabouts, oil and gas
• Sailors and marine oilers
• Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood
• Security guards
• Semiconductor processors
• Service station attendants
• Sewing machine operators
• Sheet metal workers
• Ship engineers
• Shoe machine operators and tenders
• Stock clerks and order fillers
• Stonemasons
• Structural iron and steel workers
• Subway and streetcar operators
• Tank car, truck, and ship loaders
• Tapers
• Tax preparers
• Team assemblers
• Technical writers
• Telemarketers
• Telephone operators
• Terrazzo workers and finishers
• Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders
• Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other
• Timing device assemblers, adjusters, and calibrators
• Tire repairers and changers
• Tour guides and escorts
• Travel guides
• Tree trimmers and pruners
• Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers
• Waiters and waitresses
• Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers
• Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders
• Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing