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| Career | Median yearly payAll workers · May 2025 | Projected growth2025–35 | Openings per yearprojected, 2025–35 | Typical education to start |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accountants and auditors Strong outlook | $83,680 | +5.0% | 115,300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Actors No bachelor's needed | — | +0.0% | 6,300 | Some college, no degree |
| Actuaries Strong outlook | $130,000 | +9.2% | 1,500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Acupuncturists Strong outlook | $76,040 | +8.6% | 800 | Master's degree |
| Adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders No bachelor's needed | $46,460 | +1.3% | 1,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Administrative law judges, adjudicators, and hearing officers | $117,860 | +0.0% | 500 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Administrative services managers Strong outlook | $114,130 | +5.2% | 22,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors | $61,540 | -13.9% | 3,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Advertising and promotions managers | $133,660 | -3.7% | 2,300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Advertising sales agents No bachelor's needed | $64,820 | -7.2% | 7,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Aerospace engineering and operations technologists and technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $82,890 | +11.9% | 1,100 | Associate's degree |
| Aerospace engineers Strong outlook | $134,960 | +8.3% | 3,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes Strong outlook | $82,890 | +9.7% | 2,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Agricultural engineers Strong outlook | $98,590 | +6.9% | 100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Agricultural equipment operators No bachelor's needed | $41,730 | +8.6% | 10,100 | No formal educational credential |
| Agricultural inspectors | $49,940 | +2.3% | 2,500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Agricultural sciences teachers, postsecondary | $98,700 | +2.9% | 800 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Agricultural technicians No bachelor's needed | $49,630 | +5.4% | 2,800 | Associate's degree |
| Agricultural workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $39,850 | +3.8% | 1,300 | No formal educational credential |
| Air traffic controllers No bachelor's needed | $148,080 | +1.7% | 2,100 | Associate's degree |
| Aircraft cargo handling supervisors Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $58,170 | +9.2% | 900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Aircraft mechanics and service technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $79,870 | +5.4% | 11,400 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Aircraft service attendants No bachelor's needed | $40,450 | +5.6% | 4,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers No bachelor's needed | $65,380 | -5.6% | 3,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Airfield operations specialists Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $56,850 | +7.8% | 1,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers Strong outlook | $232,140 | +8.3% | 11,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians No bachelor's needed | $35,450 | -1.3% | 1,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Amusement and recreation attendants No bachelor's needed | $32,150 | +3.7% | 100,400 | No formal educational credential |
| Anesthesiologists Strong outlook | $391,490 | +3.6% | 1,100 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Animal breeders No bachelor's needed | $51,130 | +3.0% | 1,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Animal caretakers No bachelor's needed | $35,360 | +12.1% | 62,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Animal control workers No bachelor's needed | $45,660 | +4.0% | 1,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Animal scientists Strong outlook | $68,940 | +5.8% | 200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Animal trainers No bachelor's needed | $39,990 | +4.2% | 6,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Anthropologists and archeologists Strong outlook | $70,770 | +6.0% | 800 | Master's degree |
| Anthropology and archeology teachers, postsecondary | $99,650 | +2.6% | 400 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators Strong outlook | $75,530 | +4.7% | 300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Architects, except landscape and naval Strong outlook | $99,280 | +4.3% | 6,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Architectural and civil drafters Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $66,150 | +5.2% | 9,100 | Associate's degree |
| Architectural and engineering managers Strong outlook | $171,270 | +5.5% | 14,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Architecture teachers, postsecondary | $96,870 | +2.6% | 700 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Archivists | $64,550 | +3.4% | 1,100 | Master's degree |
| Area, ethnic, and cultural studies teachers, postsecondary | $85,020 | +2.7% | 1,000 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Art directors Strong outlook | $114,850 | +4.2% | 12,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary | $78,620 | +2.2% | 8,000 | Master's degree |
| Artists and related workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $71,240 | +2.0% | 1,100 | No formal educational credential |
| Astronomers Strong outlook | $128,820 | +7.8% | 100 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Athletes and sports competitors Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $66,710 | +5.5% | 2,200 | No formal educational credential |
| Athletic trainers Strong outlook | $62,520 | +12.7% | 2,400 | Master's degree |
| Atmospheric and space scientists | $99,070 | +2.6% | 800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Atmospheric, earth, marine, and space sciences teachers, postsecondary | $103,170 | +2.4% | 800 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Audio and video technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $58,100 | +3.9% | 6,600 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Audiologists Strong outlook | $95,780 | +11.0% | 600 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Audiovisual equipment installers and repairers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $52,600 | +4.8% | 2,200 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Automotive and watercraft service attendants No bachelor's needed | $35,670 | +3.8% | 12,900 | No formal educational credential |
| Automotive body and related repairers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $54,890 | +3.7% | 12,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Automotive glass installers and repairers No bachelor's needed | $47,630 | +5.7% | 1,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Automotive service technicians and mechanics No bachelor's needed | $50,620 | +5.0% | 66,200 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Avionics technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $82,280 | +9.4% | 1,700 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Baggage porters and bellhops No bachelor's needed | $37,080 | -3.0% | 3,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Bailiffs No bachelor's needed | $56,600 | -1.9% | 1,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Bakers No bachelor's needed | $37,160 | +5.5% | 36,500 | No formal educational credential |
| Barbers No bachelor's needed | $38,210 | +3.3% | 6,900 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Bartenders No bachelor's needed | $34,340 | +5.0% | 121,200 | No formal educational credential |
| Bicycle repairers No bachelor's needed | $42,780 | -5.7% | 1,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Bill and account collectors No bachelor's needed | $47,030 | -10.4% | 11,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Billing and posting clerks No bachelor's needed | $48,500 | -0.1% | 37,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Biochemists and biophysicists Strong outlook | $127,410 | +12.3% | 2,900 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Bioengineers and biomedical engineers Strong outlook | $109,370 | +7.6% | 1,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Biological science teachers, postsecondary Strong outlook | $84,620 | +7.3% | 4,700 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Biological scientists, all other | $98,920 | +4.7% | 4,300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Biological technicians Strong outlook | $57,510 | +7.4% | 9,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Boilermakers No bachelor's needed | $76,410 | -1.8% | 700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks No bachelor's needed | $50,670 | -5.6% | 144,100 | Some college, no degree |
| Brickmasons and blockmasons No bachelor's needed | $62,120 | +1.1% | 4,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Bridge and lock tenders No bachelor's needed | $57,700 | -2.3% | 300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Broadcast announcers and radio disc jockeys | $47,340 | -7.6% | 2,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Broadcast technicians No bachelor's needed | $59,570 | -3.1% | 1,600 | Associate's degree |
| Brokerage clerks No bachelor's needed | $65,750 | -7.6% | 3,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Budget analysts | $91,640 | +1.9% | 2,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Building cleaning workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $44,040 | +2.0% | 2,500 | No formal educational credential |
| Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $61,770 | +3.6% | 24,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Bus drivers, school No bachelor's needed | $47,920 | +0.7% | 56,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Bus drivers, transit and intercity Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $59,050 | +4.1% | 21,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Business operations specialists, all other | $83,050 | +3.9% | 98,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Business teachers, postsecondary Strong outlook | $99,080 | +5.9% | 7,600 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Butchers and meat cutters No bachelor's needed | $40,140 | +2.4% | 15,100 | No formal educational credential |
| Buyers and purchasing agents Strong outlook | $77,710 | +6.0% | 47,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters No bachelor's needed | $46,680 | -2.9% | 6,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Calibration technologists and technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $67,820 | +4.8% | 1,500 | Associate's degree |
| Camera and photographic equipment repairers No bachelor's needed | $52,720 | -15.5% | 100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Camera operators, television, video, and film | $74,990 | +1.3% | 2,500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $92,460 | +4.0% | 3,800 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Cardiologists Strong outlook | $496,010 | +4.8% | 500 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Cardiovascular technologists and technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $74,310 | +3.7% | 3,400 | Associate's degree |
| Career/technical education teachers, middle school | $65,030 | -0.5% | 1,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Career/technical education teachers, postsecondary | $63,820 | -0.3% | 8,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Career/technical education teachers, secondary school | $66,270 | -0.4% | 6,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Cargo and freight agents Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $52,260 | +6.2% | 9,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Carpenters Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $60,580 | +3.9% | 62,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Carpet installers No bachelor's needed | $50,340 | -16.4% | 700 | No formal educational credential |
| Cartographers and photogrammetrists Strong outlook | $81,390 | +7.4% | 900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Cashiers No bachelor's needed | $32,880 | -6.5% | 521,300 | No formal educational credential |
| Cement masons and concrete finishers No bachelor's needed | $57,020 | +1.6% | 13,600 | No formal educational credential |
| Chefs and head cooks Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $62,470 | +6.6% | 25,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Chemical engineers Strong outlook | $125,040 | +4.7% | 1,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Chemical equipment operators and tenders Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $58,040 | +3.6% | 13,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Chemical plant and system operators No bachelor's needed | $78,120 | -5.2% | 1,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Chemical technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $60,390 | +4.9% | 7,600 | Associate's degree |
| Chemistry teachers, postsecondary | $93,250 | +2.3% | 1,700 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Chemists Strong outlook | $91,240 | +6.4% | 5,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Chief executives | $213,990 | +3.2% | 19,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Child, family, and school social workers Strong outlook | $59,550 | +4.4% | 33,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Childcare workers No bachelor's needed | $34,980 | -2.0% | 150,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Chiropractors Strong outlook | $79,200 | +8.7% | 2,600 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Choreographers No bachelor's needed | $55,310 | +3.1% | 600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Civil engineering technologists and technicians No bachelor's needed | $64,950 | +3.2% | 6,100 | Associate's degree |
| Civil engineers Strong outlook | $100,840 | +6.4% | 22,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators No bachelor's needed | $78,000 | -5.5% | 20,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Cleaners of vehicles and equipment No bachelor's needed | $35,830 | +3.9% | 51,500 | No formal educational credential |
| Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders No bachelor's needed | $43,530 | +3.4% | 1,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Clergy | $60,810 | +2.4% | 19,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Clinical and counseling psychologists Strong outlook | $100,580 | +11.7% | 4,100 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians | $62,930 | +2.7% | 20,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Coaches and scouts | $47,320 | +6.1% | 36,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders No bachelor's needed | $48,250 | +2.5% | 15,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Coil winders, tapers, and finishers No bachelor's needed | $48,220 | -4.0% | 1,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers No bachelor's needed | $47,450 | -3.4% | 3,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Commercial and industrial designers | $83,910 | +2.4% | 2,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Commercial divers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $72,990 | +4.8% | 400 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Commercial pilots Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $123,220 | +5.2% | 5,200 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Communications equipment operators, all other No bachelor's needed | $54,680 | +1.0% | 100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Communications teachers, postsecondary | $78,580 | +2.1% | 2,400 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Community and social service specialists, all other | $56,730 | +5.5% | 11,600 | Bachelor's degree |
| Community health workers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $51,850 | +12.7% | 7,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Compensation and benefits managers | $149,230 | +1.1% | 1,600 | Bachelor's degree |
| Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists Strong outlook | $78,210 | +6.0% | 9,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Compliance officers Strong outlook | $80,730 | +3.8% | 32,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Computer and information research scientists Strong outlook | $140,300 | +21.8% | 2,900 | Master's degree |
| Computer and information systems managers Strong outlook | $175,140 | +15.8% | 53,500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Computer hardware engineers Strong outlook | $161,740 | +9.1% | 4,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Computer network architects Strong outlook | $134,050 | +7.7% | 9,600 | Bachelor's degree |
| Computer network support specialists No bachelor's needed | $76,220 | +1.2% | 9,000 | Associate's degree |
| Computer numerically controlled tool operators No bachelor's needed | $50,690 | -9.4% | 12,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Computer numerically controlled tool programmers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $68,120 | +5.9% | 2,700 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Computer occupations, all other | $116,580 | +5.1% | 27,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Computer programmers | $100,390 | -7.3% | 4,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Computer science teachers, postsecondary Strong outlook | $96,980 | +4.9% | 3,200 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Computer systems analysts Strong outlook | $105,850 | +7.9% | 32,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Computer user support specialists No bachelor's needed | $61,860 | -3.5% | 39,700 | Some college, no degree |
| Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers No bachelor's needed | $47,810 | -3.0% | 6,100 | Some college, no degree |
| Concierges No bachelor's needed | $38,950 | +2.6% | 6,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Conservation scientists Strong outlook | $73,010 | +5.3% | 2,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Construction and building inspectors No bachelor's needed | $74,690 | +0.0% | 14,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Construction laborers No bachelor's needed | $47,120 | +7.3% | 120,000 | No formal educational credential |
| Construction managers Strong outlook | $114,990 | +9.1% | 49,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Continuous mining machine operators No bachelor's needed | $61,810 | +3.2% | 1,400 | No formal educational credential |
| Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $74,340 | +4.3% | 3,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Conveyor operators and tenders No bachelor's needed | $42,420 | -2.6% | 2,200 | No formal educational credential |
| Cooks, all other No bachelor's needed | $37,690 | +5.2% | 2,800 | No formal educational credential |
| Cooks, fast food No bachelor's needed | $30,890 | +0.6% | 86,400 | No formal educational credential |
| Cooks, institution and cafeteria No bachelor's needed | $37,450 | +2.8% | 62,900 | No formal educational credential |
| Cooks, private household No bachelor's needed | $47,940 | +5.1% | 5,000 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Cooks, restaurant No bachelor's needed | $37,390 | +12.1% | 218,600 | No formal educational credential |
| Cooks, short order No bachelor's needed | $35,880 | -5.2% | 17,400 | No formal educational credential |
| Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders No bachelor's needed | $41,330 | +5.9% | 800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Correctional officers and jailers No bachelor's needed | $58,940 | -7.4% | 28,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Correspondence clerks No bachelor's needed | $46,800 | -5.6% | 500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Cost estimators | $78,740 | -3.1% | 17,600 | Bachelor's degree |
| Costume attendants No bachelor's needed | $50,400 | +5.9% | 1,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Counselors, all other | $50,860 | +5.9% | 4,300 | Master's degree |
| Counter and rental clerks No bachelor's needed | $41,300 | +3.0% | 46,100 | No formal educational credential |
| Couriers and messengers No bachelor's needed | $39,200 | +8.0% | 23,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Court reporters and simultaneous captioners No bachelor's needed | $72,420 | -0.1% | 1,800 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Court, municipal, and license clerks No bachelor's needed | $48,700 | +3.4% | 17,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Craft artists No bachelor's needed | $46,080 | +2.0% | 1,000 | No formal educational credential |
| Crane and tower operators Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $68,080 | +3.8% | 3,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Credit analysts | $83,510 | -4.3% | 3,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks No bachelor's needed | $50,080 | -7.4% | 900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Credit counselors | $52,230 | +3.3% | 2,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Crematory operators No bachelor's needed | $43,650 | +3.1% | 500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Criminal justice and law enforcement teachers, postsecondary | $76,590 | +1.5% | 1,100 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Crossing guards and flaggers No bachelor's needed | $38,100 | +3.5% | 17,300 | No formal educational credential |
| Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders No bachelor's needed | $48,540 | -1.7% | 2,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Curators Strong outlook | $63,420 | +4.9% | 1,600 | Master's degree |
| Customer service representatives No bachelor's needed | $44,770 | -5.3% | 289,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Cutters and trimmers, hand No bachelor's needed | $38,020 | -18.9% | 500 | No formal educational credential |
| Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders No bachelor's needed | $46,570 | -0.9% | 5,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $46,330 | -10.5% | 13,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Dancers No bachelor's needed | — | +2.2% | 1,600 | No formal educational credential |
| Data entry keyers No bachelor's needed | $41,340 | -25.5% | 7,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Data scientists Strong outlook | $120,230 | +34.6% | 24,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Database administrators | $104,620 | -0.1% | 3,300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Database architects Strong outlook | $139,500 | +9.4% | 3,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Demonstrators and product promoters No bachelor's needed | $39,320 | +0.2% | 11,400 | No formal educational credential |
| Dental assistants No bachelor's needed | $48,070 | +7.4% | 53,000 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Dental hygienists Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $98,100 | +8.0% | 15,000 | Associate's degree |
| Dental laboratory technicians No bachelor's needed | $49,610 | -5.9% | 3,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Dentists, all other specialists | $224,990 | +1.3% | 100 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Dentists, general Strong outlook | $170,950 | +5.7% | 4,200 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Dermatologists Strong outlook | $328,730 | +6.8% | 400 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Derrick operators, oil and gas No bachelor's needed | $58,620 | +1.6% | 900 | No formal educational credential |
| Designers, all other | $64,950 | +1.2% | 2,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Desktop publishers No bachelor's needed | $55,290 | -14.5% | 300 | Associate's degree |
| Detectives and criminal investigators No bachelor's needed | $93,790 | +0.2% | 7,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Diagnostic medical sonographers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $96,590 | +13.9% | 6,000 | Associate's degree |
| Dietetic technicians No bachelor's needed | $37,640 | +2.7% | 4,200 | Associate's degree |
| Dietitians and nutritionists Strong outlook | $76,400 | +7.7% | 5,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers No bachelor's needed | $33,980 | +5.3% | 95,300 | No formal educational credential |
| Directors, religious activities and education | $52,100 | +3.3% | 13,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Disc jockeys, except radio No bachelor's needed | — | +3.8% | 1,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Dishwashers No bachelor's needed | $34,810 | -1.0% | 68,900 | No formal educational credential |
| Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance No bachelor's needed | $50,340 | -0.7% | 16,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers No bachelor's needed | $41,380 | -10.4% | 4,800 | No formal educational credential |
| Drafters, all other No bachelor's needed | $63,520 | -7.3% | 1,000 | Associate's degree |
| Dredge operators No bachelor's needed | $49,640 | +0.7% | 100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $49,080 | -9.5% | 400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Driver/sales workers No bachelor's needed | $38,770 | +7.9% | 45,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Drywall and ceiling tile installers No bachelor's needed | $58,930 | +2.5% | 6,600 | No formal educational credential |
| Earth drillers, except oil and gas Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $60,190 | +3.6% | 1,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Economics teachers, postsecondary | $123,920 | +2.4% | 1,000 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Economists Strong outlook | $124,720 | +4.7% | 1,100 | Master's degree |
| Editors | $77,920 | -1.1% | 7,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Education administrators, all other | $95,200 | +1.6% | 3,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Education administrators, kindergarten through secondary | $105,870 | -0.3% | 20,600 | Master's degree |
| Education administrators, postsecondary | $104,590 | +1.8% | 14,500 | Master's degree |
| Education and childcare administrators, preschool and daycare | $59,300 | -3.1% | 5,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Education teachers, postsecondary | $75,350 | +2.5% | 5,300 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Educational instruction and library workers, all other | $50,890 | +1.8% | 12,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors | $64,330 | +2.9% | 27,800 | Master's degree |
| Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $56,210 | +4.4% | 1,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians No bachelor's needed | $78,190 | +2.4% | 8,100 | Associate's degree |
| Electrical and electronics drafters No bachelor's needed | $76,870 | -3.4% | 1,400 | Associate's degree |
| Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $84,890 | +5.4% | 500 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment No bachelor's needed | $74,090 | +0.3% | 4,700 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $103,020 | +9.7% | 1,800 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Electrical engineers Strong outlook | $120,630 | +9.9% | 11,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Electrical power-line installers and repairers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $95,320 | +10.3% | 10,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers No bachelor's needed | $45,850 | +5.0% | 25,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Electricians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $63,190 | +9.2% | 72,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Electro-mechanical and mechatronics technologists and technicians No bachelor's needed | $73,900 | +2.6% | 1,400 | Associate's degree |
| Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles No bachelor's needed | $48,420 | -14.5% | 400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Electronics engineers, except computer Strong outlook | $130,220 | +3.7% | 4,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Elementary school teachers, except special education | $63,970 | -0.4% | 87,500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Elevator and escalator installers and repairers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $109,910 | +5.7% | 1,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Eligibility interviewers, government programs No bachelor's needed | $54,210 | +1.6% | 12,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Embalmers No bachelor's needed | $58,780 | +0.7% | 700 | Associate's degree |
| Emergency management directors Strong outlook | $93,330 | +3.9% | 1,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Emergency medical technicians No bachelor's needed | $44,470 | +5.8% | 13,800 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Emergency medicine physicians | $335,550 | +3.2% | 900 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Engine and other machine assemblers No bachelor's needed | $53,710 | -17.0% | 2,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Engineering teachers, postsecondary Strong outlook | $109,270 | +7.8% | 3,900 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters, all other No bachelor's needed | $78,350 | +2.8% | 5,400 | Associate's degree |
| Engineers, all other | $122,930 | +3.7% | 8,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| English language and literature teachers, postsecondary | $78,760 | +0.0% | 4,500 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other No bachelor's needed | — | +4.7% | 4,500 | No formal educational credential |
| Entertainment and recreation managers, except gambling Strong outlook | $79,520 | +6.0% | 5,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Entertainment attendants and related workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $32,640 | +4.0% | 1,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Environmental engineering technologists and technicians No bachelor's needed | $59,920 | +3.1% | 1,100 | Associate's degree |
| Environmental engineers Strong outlook | $107,110 | +6.3% | 2,300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Environmental science and protection technicians, including health Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $55,090 | +6.9% | 5,300 | Associate's degree |
| Environmental science teachers, postsecondary | $94,980 | +2.7% | 600 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Environmental scientists and specialists, including health Strong outlook | $82,220 | +6.1% | 7,300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Epidemiologists Strong outlook | $87,220 | +18.7% | 800 | Master's degree |
| Etchers and engravers No bachelor's needed | $43,310 | -0.7% | 800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface mining No bachelor's needed | $57,430 | +1.0% | 2,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants No bachelor's needed | $76,590 | +0.0% | 43,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Exercise physiologists Strong outlook | $59,460 | +12.8% | 1,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Exercise trainers and group fitness instructors No bachelor's needed | $47,160 | +7.3% | 68,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters No bachelor's needed | $61,390 | +0.0% | 400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Extraction workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $57,010 | +3.4% | 600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $47,720 | +0.7% | 5,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers No bachelor's needed | $46,350 | -3.3% | 1,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders No bachelor's needed | $45,760 | +1.5% | 5,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Fabric and apparel patternmakers No bachelor's needed | $62,750 | -15.0% | 200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Facilities managers Strong outlook | $106,660 | +4.6% | 14,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Fallers No bachelor's needed | $52,100 | -9.9% | 500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Family and consumer sciences teachers, postsecondary | $75,870 | +2.4% | 200 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Family medicine physicians | $244,180 | +3.3% | 2,900 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Farm and home management educators | $60,220 | -3.2% | 800 | Master's degree |
| Farm equipment mechanics and service technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $56,550 | +10.7% | 3,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Farm labor contractors Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $58,460 | +7.4% | 100 | No formal educational credential |
| Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers No bachelor's needed | $89,900 | -3.4% | 70,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse No bachelor's needed | $35,660 | -2.4% | 72,500 | No formal educational credential |
| Farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals No bachelor's needed | $36,670 | -3.2% | 26,600 | No formal educational credential |
| Fashion designers | $80,960 | +0.1% | 2,500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Fast food and counter workers No bachelor's needed | $31,200 | +5.8% | 827,400 | No formal educational credential |
| Fence erectors No bachelor's needed | $47,980 | +5.6% | 2,500 | No formal educational credential |
| Fiberglass laminators and fabricators No bachelor's needed | $46,880 | +4.6% | 1,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| File clerks No bachelor's needed | $43,600 | -15.8% | 5,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Film and video editors Strong outlook | $75,420 | +3.7% | 3,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Financial and investment analysts Strong outlook | $102,740 | +7.2% | 24,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Financial clerks, all other No bachelor's needed | $53,830 | +0.0% | 3,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Financial examiners Strong outlook | $94,160 | +9.3% | 4,500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Financial managers Strong outlook | $166,570 | +9.7% | 65,600 | Bachelor's degree |
| Financial risk specialists Strong outlook | $117,330 | +7.4% | 4,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Financial specialists, all other | $81,100 | +4.1% | 9,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators | $55,490 | -2.9% | 2,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Fire inspectors and investigators Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $75,920 | +4.2% | 1,600 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Firefighters Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $59,280 | +3.7% | 26,800 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $79,920 | +5.0% | 67,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of correctional officers No bachelor's needed | $77,970 | -2.5% | 3,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of entertainment and recreation workers, except gambling services No bachelor's needed | $48,560 | +5.3% | 10,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $59,320 | +3.8% | 7,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $93,530 | +3.7% | 6,600 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers No bachelor's needed | $44,080 | +5.4% | 171,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of gambling services workers No bachelor's needed | $63,820 | +3.5% | 2,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers No bachelor's needed | $49,100 | +3.2% | 30,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $58,430 | +4.0% | 23,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $79,860 | +4.1% | 48,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers No bachelor's needed | $87,520 | +0.5% | 21,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers No bachelor's needed | $69,500 | +0.1% | 127,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of personal service workers No bachelor's needed | $48,590 | +6.3% | 12,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of police and detectives No bachelor's needed | $106,040 | +3.3% | 10,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of production and operating workers No bachelor's needed | $74,450 | +1.8% | 61,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $76,400 | +1.9% | 1,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of retail sales workers No bachelor's needed | $48,520 | -3.7% | 113,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of security workers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $55,940 | +3.7% | 6,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling supervisors No bachelor's needed | $62,890 | +3.0% | 54,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Fish and game wardens | $74,060 | -5.7% | 500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Fishing and hunting workers No bachelor's needed | — | -4.2% | 3,300 | No formal educational credential |
| Flight attendants Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $63,580 | +8.8% | 18,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $56,460 | +9.0% | 2,200 | No formal educational credential |
| Floor sanders and finishers No bachelor's needed | $50,440 | +1.4% | 300 | No formal educational credential |
| Floral designers No bachelor's needed | $37,360 | -5.6% | 5,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders No bachelor's needed | $44,810 | +0.4% | 2,500 | No formal educational credential |
| Food batchmakers No bachelor's needed | $42,290 | +6.5% | 23,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Food cooking machine operators and tenders No bachelor's needed | $41,590 | -0.3% | 3,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Food preparation and serving related workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $35,840 | +5.5% | 11,800 | No formal educational credential |
| Food preparation workers No bachelor's needed | $35,320 | -3.0% | 135,700 | No formal educational credential |
| Food processing workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $39,680 | +5.5% | 7,400 | No formal educational credential |
| Food science technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $52,130 | +4.8% | 3,000 | Associate's degree |
| Food scientists and technologists Strong outlook | $88,720 | +6.2% | 1,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Food servers, nonrestaurant No bachelor's needed | $35,360 | +4.5% | 48,800 | No formal educational credential |
| Food service managers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $69,390 | +5.8% | 38,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Foreign language and literature teachers, postsecondary | $79,350 | +0.2% | 1,600 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Forensic science technicians Strong outlook | $72,060 | +13.3% | 2,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Forest and conservation technicians No bachelor's needed | $54,560 | -2.1% | 3,800 | Associate's degree |
| Forest and conservation workers No bachelor's needed | $43,680 | -1.5% | 2,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Forest fire inspectors and prevention specialists Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $56,870 | +13.1% | 400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Foresters | $76,400 | +2.2% | 900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Forestry and conservation science teachers, postsecondary | $101,420 | +2.8% | 100 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $49,030 | -17.2% | 600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Foundry mold and coremakers No bachelor's needed | $48,110 | -23.0% | 800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Fundraisers Strong outlook | $72,550 | +5.5% | 10,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Fundraising managers Strong outlook | $125,470 | +5.4% | 3,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Funeral attendants No bachelor's needed | $35,680 | +2.6% | 5,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Funeral home managers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $78,790 | +4.1% | 2,600 | Associate's degree |
| Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders No bachelor's needed | $48,040 | +2.6% | 1,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Furniture finishers No bachelor's needed | $44,540 | -3.5% | 1,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Gambling and sports book writers and runners No bachelor's needed | $34,980 | +1.8% | 1,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Gambling cage workers No bachelor's needed | $37,580 | -3.1% | 1,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Gambling change persons and booth cashiers No bachelor's needed | $36,220 | -1.9% | 3,900 | No formal educational credential |
| Gambling dealers No bachelor's needed | $34,320 | +3.4% | 13,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Gambling managers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $93,220 | +3.6% | 600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Gambling service workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $36,310 | +4.2% | 2,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Gambling surveillance officers and gambling investigators No bachelor's needed | $43,370 | -1.8% | 1,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators No bachelor's needed | $77,320 | +2.1% | 300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Gas plant operators No bachelor's needed | $87,820 | -6.0% | 1,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| General and operations managers Strong outlook | $105,770 | +5.0% | 285,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| General internal medicine physicians Strong outlook | $256,560 | +4.0% | 1,900 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Genetic counselors Strong outlook | $100,040 | +10.4% | 300 | Master's degree |
| Geographers | $102,040 | -2.1% | 100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Geography teachers, postsecondary | $97,590 | +2.7% | 300 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Geological technicians, except hydrologic technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $53,350 | +3.6% | 1,000 | Associate's degree |
| Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers Strong outlook | $101,920 | +5.1% | 1,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Glaziers No bachelor's needed | $57,080 | +1.9% | 3,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Graders and sorters, agricultural products No bachelor's needed | $35,730 | -3.4% | 5,800 | No formal educational credential |
| Graphic designers | $62,960 | -1.7% | 16,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Grinding and polishing workers, hand No bachelor's needed | $42,660 | -19.2% | 700 | No formal educational credential |
| Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $46,550 | -10.8% | 4,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Grounds maintenance workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $46,860 | +3.7% | 1,800 | No formal educational credential |
| Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists No bachelor's needed | $35,790 | +7.7% | 73,400 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Hazardous materials removal workers No bachelor's needed | $49,450 | +1.5% | 4,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors Strong outlook | $115,160 | +5.4% | 1,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Health education specialists Strong outlook | $64,070 | +5.6% | 6,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Health information technologists and medical registrars Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $68,020 | +15.9% | 3,000 | Associate's degree |
| Health specialties teachers, postsecondary Strong outlook | $107,310 | +17.9% | 24,900 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Health technologists and technicians, all other No bachelor's needed | $50,290 | +5.9% | 12,400 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other | $115,210 | +5.5% | 1,900 | Master's degree |
| Healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $65,790 | +5.1% | 2,200 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Healthcare social workers Strong outlook | $67,880 | +8.5% | 16,900 | Master's degree |
| Healthcare support workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $48,430 | +4.8% | 14,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Hearing aid specialists Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $65,160 | +19.4% | 900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $48,750 | -9.5% | 1,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $61,010 | +10.9% | 40,600 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $58,640 | +3.8% | 214,500 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Helpers, construction trades, all other No bachelor's needed | $42,670 | -1.0% | 2,300 | No formal educational credential |
| Helpers--brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters No bachelor's needed | $47,550 | -11.7% | 1,100 | No formal educational credential |
| Helpers--carpenters No bachelor's needed | $43,780 | -1.7% | 2,000 | No formal educational credential |
| Helpers--electricians No bachelor's needed | $42,670 | +0.6% | 6,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Helpers--extraction workers No bachelor's needed | $47,730 | +1.7% | 700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers No bachelor's needed | $39,630 | +5.3% | 13,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Helpers--painters, paperhangers, plasterers, and stucco masons No bachelor's needed | $40,470 | +1.5% | 700 | No formal educational credential |
| Helpers--pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters No bachelor's needed | $42,360 | +2.4% | 4,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Helpers--production workers No bachelor's needed | $39,070 | -8.2% | 20,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Helpers--roofers No bachelor's needed | $44,160 | -0.1% | 600 | No formal educational credential |
| Highway maintenance workers No bachelor's needed | $50,260 | +3.4% | 11,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Historians | $76,750 | +3.0% | 300 | Master's degree |
| History teachers, postsecondary | $83,820 | +0.0% | 1,500 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Hoist and winch operators No bachelor's needed | $56,450 | +0.2% | 300 | No formal educational credential |
| Home appliance repairers No bachelor's needed | $50,990 | +1.9% | 2,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Home health and personal care aides No bachelor's needed | $35,800 | +18.1% | 760,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop No bachelor's needed | $31,200 | +3.4% | 107,100 | No formal educational credential |
| Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks No bachelor's needed | $35,070 | +1.8% | 35,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping No bachelor's needed | $50,610 | -6.2% | 7,900 | Associate's degree |
| Human resources managers Strong outlook | $149,280 | +5.5% | 16,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Human resources specialists Strong outlook | $75,940 | +6.4% | 73,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Hydrologic technicians No bachelor's needed | $64,790 | -1.3% | 400 | Associate's degree |
| Hydrologists | $96,600 | +1.5% | 400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Industrial engineering technologists and technicians No bachelor's needed | $66,120 | +3.1% | 6,600 | Associate's degree |
| Industrial engineers Strong outlook | $102,440 | +12.4% | 23,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Industrial machinery mechanics Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $64,520 | +17.8% | 44,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Industrial production managers | $126,060 | +2.6% | 17,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Industrial truck and tractor operators No bachelor's needed | $46,420 | +1.5% | 64,700 | No formal educational credential |
| Industrial-organizational psychologists Strong outlook | $193,950 | +6.5% | 300 | Master's degree |
| Information and record clerks, all other No bachelor's needed | $49,500 | +0.8% | 15,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Information security analysts Strong outlook | $129,180 | +21.0% | 14,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers No bachelor's needed | $48,570 | +2.5% | 66,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $49,230 | +2.6% | 18,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Instructional coordinators | $77,440 | +1.6% | 23,100 | Master's degree |
| Insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall No bachelor's needed | $49,120 | +2.4% | 3,000 | No formal educational credential |
| Insulation workers, mechanical Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $58,340 | +5.1% | 1,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Insurance appraisers, auto damage No bachelor's needed | $78,240 | -8.7% | 700 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Insurance claims and policy processing clerks No bachelor's needed | $49,230 | -1.9% | 17,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Insurance sales agents No bachelor's needed | $62,280 | +3.3% | 43,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Insurance underwriters | $81,370 | -3.8% | 6,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Interior designers | $67,190 | +2.7% | 7,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Interpreters and translators | $60,170 | +2.0% | 6,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Interviewers, except eligibility and loan No bachelor's needed | $45,920 | -10.4% | 13,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners No bachelor's needed | $36,840 | +2.2% | 321,800 | No formal educational credential |
| Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers No bachelor's needed | $52,540 | -3.2% | 3,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates | $153,990 | +2.8% | 800 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Judicial law clerks | $64,920 | +2.8% | 1,500 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Kindergarten teachers, except special education | $62,680 | -0.3% | 11,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Labor relations specialists | $95,420 | +2.1% | 4,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand No bachelor's needed | $40,240 | +1.8% | 340,500 | No formal educational credential |
| Landscape architects Strong outlook | $79,870 | +4.4% | 1,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Landscaping and groundskeeping workers No bachelor's needed | $39,150 | +4.7% | 149,500 | No formal educational credential |
| Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $50,620 | -11.3% | 1,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Laundry and dry-cleaning workers No bachelor's needed | $34,890 | +4.3% | 28,200 | No formal educational credential |
| Law teachers, postsecondary | $128,500 | +2.6% | 1,800 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Lawyers Strong outlook | $159,670 | +4.7% | 28,700 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Layout workers, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $63,870 | -3.4% | 500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Legal secretaries and administrative assistants No bachelor's needed | $55,570 | -5.2% | 18,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Legal support workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $72,110 | -0.3% | 4,700 | Associate's degree |
| Librarians and media collections specialists | $68,270 | +2.6% | 12,600 | Master's degree |
| Library assistants, clerical No bachelor's needed | $36,910 | -6.4% | 12,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Library science teachers, postsecondary | $80,340 | +2.7% | 300 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Library technicians No bachelor's needed | $44,580 | -6.4% | 10,800 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses No bachelor's needed | $64,400 | +3.0% | 51,800 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Life scientists, all other | $93,750 | +6.3% | 400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Life, physical, and social science technicians, all other No bachelor's needed | $62,280 | +4.4% | 11,200 | Associate's degree |
| Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective service workers No bachelor's needed | $33,580 | +5.5% | 45,400 | No formal educational credential |
| Light truck drivers No bachelor's needed | $44,860 | +6.3% | 107,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Lighting technicians No bachelor's needed | $68,060 | -4.8% | 600 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Loading and moving machine operators, underground mining No bachelor's needed | $74,500 | -15.8% | 400 | No formal educational credential |
| Loan interviewers and clerks No bachelor's needed | $50,020 | -2.4% | 10,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Loan officers | $76,690 | +1.1% | 17,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Locker room, coatroom, and dressing room attendants No bachelor's needed | $36,300 | +6.4% | 4,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Locksmiths and safe repairers No bachelor's needed | $51,320 | -11.7% | 1,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Locomotive engineers No bachelor's needed | $81,410 | +0.5% | 2,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Lodging managers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $69,250 | +3.8% | 5,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Log graders and scalers No bachelor's needed | $46,330 | -2.2% | 600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Logging equipment operators No bachelor's needed | $49,740 | -3.8% | 3,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Logging workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $50,840 | -7.6% | 300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Logisticians Strong outlook | $82,320 | +17.6% | 26,600 | Bachelor's degree |
| Machine feeders and offbearers No bachelor's needed | $41,220 | -13.1% | 4,000 | No formal educational credential |
| Machinists No bachelor's needed | $58,750 | +1.0% | 26,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Magnetic resonance imaging technologists Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $95,480 | +7.7% | 2,300 | Associate's degree |
| Maids and housekeeping cleaners No bachelor's needed | $35,510 | +0.6% | 175,500 | No formal educational credential |
| Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service No bachelor's needed | $39,280 | -7.2% | 4,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Maintenance and repair workers, general No bachelor's needed | $49,590 | +4.2% | 148,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Maintenance workers, machinery No bachelor's needed | $60,850 | -1.9% | 4,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Makeup artists, theatrical and performance Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $97,150 | +6.1% | 600 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Management analysts Strong outlook | $101,860 | +10.1% | 94,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Managers, all other | $141,900 | +4.9% | 100,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Manicurists and pedicurists No bachelor's needed | $35,760 | +9.2% | 21,900 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Manufactured building and mobile home installers No bachelor's needed | $45,990 | +5.8% | 300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Marine engineers and naval architects Strong outlook | $112,230 | +6.7% | 500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Market research analysts and marketing specialists Strong outlook | $78,760 | +7.0% | 82,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Marketing managers Strong outlook | $166,790 | +6.9% | 34,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Marriage and family therapists Strong outlook | $66,940 | +13.5% | 6,900 | Master's degree |
| Massage therapists Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $58,450 | +15.3% | 20,400 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Material moving workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $41,800 | +2.7% | 2,800 | No formal educational credential |
| Materials engineers Strong outlook | $112,860 | +7.5% | 1,300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Materials scientists Strong outlook | $117,790 | +8.3% | 600 | Bachelor's degree |
| Mathematical science occupations, all other | $81,490 | +7.1% | 200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Mathematical science teachers, postsecondary | $79,940 | +1.7% | 3,900 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Mathematicians | $126,710 | +0.6% | 100 | Master's degree |
| Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers No bachelor's needed | $38,300 | +5.7% | 17,000 | No formal educational credential |
| Mechanical door repairers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $55,720 | +6.4% | 2,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Mechanical drafters No bachelor's needed | $71,550 | -6.0% | 2,900 | Associate's degree |
| Mechanical engineering technologists and technicians No bachelor's needed | $74,510 | +1.3% | 3,100 | Associate's degree |
| Mechanical engineers Strong outlook | $104,110 | +11.2% | 17,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Media and communication equipment workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $70,720 | +1.6% | 1,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Media and communication workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $73,620 | +3.9% | 2,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Medical and health services managers Strong outlook | $123,860 | +24.2% | 62,300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Medical appliance technicians No bachelor's needed | $48,030 | +3.5% | 1,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Medical assistants No bachelor's needed | $45,690 | +12.9% | 109,700 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Medical dosimetrists Strong outlook | $147,470 | +5.0% | 200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Medical equipment preparers No bachelor's needed | $47,700 | +10.8% | 10,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Medical equipment repairers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $61,660 | +12.6% | 8,200 | Associate's degree |
| Medical records specialists Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $51,140 | +7.8% | 14,000 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Medical scientists, except epidemiologists Strong outlook | $103,410 | +12.6% | 10,500 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Medical secretaries and administrative assistants No bachelor's needed | $45,930 | +4.8% | 89,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Medical transcriptionists No bachelor's needed | $40,410 | -4.4% | 6,200 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Meeting, convention, and event planners Strong outlook | $61,160 | +5.8% | 16,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Mental health and substance abuse social workers Strong outlook | $60,280 | +10.3% | 12,500 | Master's degree |
| Merchandise displayers and window trimmers No bachelor's needed | $39,390 | +2.7% | 17,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Metal workers and plastic workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $45,950 | -7.1% | 1,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders No bachelor's needed | $54,430 | -2.9% | 1,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Meter readers, utilities No bachelor's needed | $48,150 | -10.5% | 1,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Microbiologists Strong outlook | $87,990 | +6.2% | 1,500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Middle school teachers, except special and career/technical education | $64,370 | -0.4% | 38,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $52,800 | -13.2% | 1,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Millwrights No bachelor's needed | $65,700 | +0.9% | 3,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers Strong outlook | $106,220 | +3.8% | 300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators No bachelor's needed | $44,650 | +1.1% | 138,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Miscellaneous construction and related workers No bachelor's needed | $49,910 | +3.9% | 2,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders No bachelor's needed | $48,990 | -6.1% | 7,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $65,510 | +6.7% | 15,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Model makers, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $63,340 | -17.3% | 200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Model makers, wood No bachelor's needed | $56,550 | -3.3% | 100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Models No bachelor's needed | $48,470 | -2.1% | 700 | No formal educational credential |
| Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $46,170 | +5.8% | 5,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $44,350 | -3.4% | 13,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers No bachelor's needed | $55,010 | +3.0% | 3,000 | Associate's degree |
| Motion picture projectionists No bachelor's needed | $38,270 | -6.2% | 300 | No formal educational credential |
| Motor vehicle operators, all other No bachelor's needed | $37,180 | +2.8% | 6,900 | No formal educational credential |
| Motorboat mechanics and service technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $57,550 | +4.9% | 2,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Motorboat operators No bachelor's needed | $47,520 | +4.9% | 300 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Motorcycle mechanics No bachelor's needed | $48,580 | +2.1% | 1,400 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $47,180 | +0.6% | 11,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Museum technicians and conservators Strong outlook | $51,440 | +3.6% | 1,600 | Bachelor's degree |
| Music directors and composers | $73,710 | +1.2% | 4,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Musical instrument repairers and tuners No bachelor's needed | $46,420 | +1.9% | 600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Musicians and singers No bachelor's needed | — | +0.3% | 17,400 | No formal educational credential |
| Natural sciences managers Strong outlook | $167,220 | +8.2% | 9,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Network and computer systems administrators | $99,130 | -4.1% | 13,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Neurologists Strong outlook | $248,560 | +6.4% | 300 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| New accounts clerks No bachelor's needed | $47,670 | -6.5% | 2,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| News analysts, reporters, and journalists | $62,200 | -5.9% | 3,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Nuclear engineers | $133,970 | +0.4% | 800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Nuclear medicine technologists Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $101,370 | +4.4% | 800 | Associate's degree |
| Nuclear power reactor operators No bachelor's needed | $122,890 | -5.9% | 400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Nuclear technicians No bachelor's needed | $110,240 | +1.1% | 900 | Associate's degree |
| Nurse anesthetists Strong outlook | $236,590 | +9.7% | 2,400 | Master's degree |
| Nurse midwives Strong outlook | $134,040 | +11.5% | 400 | Master's degree |
| Nurse practitioners Strong outlook | $132,300 | +41.0% | 29,400 | Master's degree |
| Nursing assistants No bachelor's needed | $42,260 | +2.6% | 196,200 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary Strong outlook | $80,250 | +17.1% | 8,500 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Obstetricians and gynecologists | $292,910 | +1.7% | 500 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Occupational health and safety specialists Strong outlook | $90,150 | +18.5% | 17,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Occupational health and safety technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $61,560 | +19.4% | 3,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Occupational therapists Strong outlook | $100,330 | +14.8% | 10,000 | Master's degree |
| Occupational therapy aides No bachelor's needed | $39,160 | +3.6% | 600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Occupational therapy assistants Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $72,300 | +21.5% | 8,100 | Associate's degree |
| Office and administrative support workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $45,670 | -7.3% | 19,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Office clerks, general No bachelor's needed | $45,010 | -6.0% | 249,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Office machine operators, except computer No bachelor's needed | $40,960 | -14.9% | 2,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $59,850 | +4.6% | 39,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Operations research analysts Strong outlook | $88,940 | +11.9% | 7,500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Ophthalmic laboratory technicians No bachelor's needed | $39,460 | +2.2% | 2,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Ophthalmic medical technicians No bachelor's needed | $45,570 | +21.4% | 11,800 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Ophthalmologists, except pediatric Strong outlook | $300,080 | +4.5% | 200 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Opticians, dispensing No bachelor's needed | $47,260 | +4.2% | 5,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Optometrists Strong outlook | $136,570 | +9.5% | 2,000 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Oral and maxillofacial surgeons Strong outlook | $352,220 | +5.6% | 200 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Order clerks No bachelor's needed | $46,170 | -17.5% | 6,300 | Some college, no degree |
| Orderlies No bachelor's needed | $38,290 | +4.0% | 7,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Orthodontists Strong outlook | $289,140 | +6.0% | 200 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Orthopedic surgeons, except pediatric Strong outlook | $358,550 | +4.0% | 400 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Orthotists and prosthetists Strong outlook | $81,110 | +12.9% | 700 | Master's degree |
| Outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics No bachelor's needed | $47,880 | +2.3% | 3,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders No bachelor's needed | $43,220 | +4.1% | 41,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Packers and packagers, hand No bachelor's needed | $36,280 | -5.0% | 61,800 | No formal educational credential |
| Painters, construction and maintenance No bachelor's needed | $49,400 | +3.0% | 24,900 | No formal educational credential |
| Painting, coating, and decorating workers No bachelor's needed | $41,600 | +1.3% | 700 | No formal educational credential |
| Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders No bachelor's needed | $50,270 | -3.6% | 9,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Paperhangers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $52,140 | +4.3% | 200 | No formal educational credential |
| Paralegals and legal assistants No bachelor's needed | $62,890 | -0.3% | 40,800 | Associate's degree |
| Paramedics Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $60,600 | +5.7% | 4,300 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Parking attendants No bachelor's needed | $35,150 | +2.0% | 16,400 | No formal educational credential |
| Parking enforcement workers No bachelor's needed | $46,730 | -1.1% | 800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Parts salespersons No bachelor's needed | $38,630 | +3.0% | 30,000 | No formal educational credential |
| Passenger attendants No bachelor's needed | $37,720 | +6.0% | 4,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Patternmakers, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $58,000 | -22.8% | 100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Patternmakers, wood No bachelor's needed | $49,630 | -2.0% | 100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators No bachelor's needed | $53,340 | -0.9% | 3,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Payroll and timekeeping clerks No bachelor's needed | $58,260 | -15.9% | 11,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Pediatric surgeons | $559,030 | +2.0% | 0 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Pediatricians, general | $210,040 | +1.5% | 1,000 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Personal care and service workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $41,600 | +5.9% | 14,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Personal financial advisors | $105,070 | +1.4% | 17,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Personal service managers, all other No bachelor's needed | $69,770 | +6.2% | 2,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Pest control workers No bachelor's needed | $45,250 | +5.5% | 13,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, vegetation No bachelor's needed | $46,340 | +3.9% | 3,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Petroleum engineers | $144,910 | +2.0% | 1,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers No bachelor's needed | $96,710 | -1.9% | 2,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Pharmacists Strong outlook | $140,910 | +5.2% | 12,500 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Pharmacy aides No bachelor's needed | $37,680 | -0.7% | 5,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Pharmacy technicians No bachelor's needed | $45,750 | +6.4% | 44,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Philosophy and religion teachers, postsecondary | $80,260 | +2.0% | 1,800 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Phlebotomists No bachelor's needed | $45,230 | +6.8% | 18,000 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Photographers No bachelor's needed | $44,660 | -0.7% | 10,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Photographic process workers and processing machine operators No bachelor's needed | $40,610 | -5.6% | 600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Physical scientists, all other | $122,570 | +2.1% | 1,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Physical therapist aides No bachelor's needed | $35,240 | +4.0% | 6,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Physical therapist assistants Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $68,380 | +23.0% | 18,500 | Associate's degree |
| Physical therapists Strong outlook | $102,760 | +11.9% | 13,400 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Physician assistants Strong outlook | $135,880 | +21.1% | 11,500 | Master's degree |
| Physicians, all other | $265,930 | +3.4% | 9,400 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Physicians, pathologists Strong outlook | $312,400 | +4.8% | 300 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Physicists Strong outlook | $172,250 | +7.2% | 1,300 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Physics teachers, postsecondary | $100,310 | +2.4% | 1,100 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Pile driver operators No bachelor's needed | $73,300 | -5.7% | 200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Pipelayers No bachelor's needed | $49,000 | -3.1% | 2,100 | No formal educational credential |
| Plant and system operators, all other No bachelor's needed | $62,470 | +2.3% | 1,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Plasterers and stucco masons No bachelor's needed | $57,660 | +2.8% | 1,500 | No formal educational credential |
| Plating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $43,960 | -9.7% | 2,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $63,800 | +6.8% | 42,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Podiatrists | $160,300 | +2.0% | 200 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Police and sheriff's patrol officers No bachelor's needed | $76,210 | +3.5% | 51,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Political science teachers, postsecondary | $98,070 | +2.5% | 1,500 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Political scientists | $142,080 | -2.0% | 400 | Master's degree |
| Postal service clerks No bachelor's needed | $62,130 | -0.3% | 5,300 | No formal educational credential |
| Postal service mail carriers No bachelor's needed | $60,550 | -0.3% | 19,600 | No formal educational credential |
| Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators No bachelor's needed | $58,470 | -5.3% | 7,300 | No formal educational credential |
| Postmasters and mail superintendents No bachelor's needed | $96,660 | -0.3% | 900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Postsecondary teachers, all other | $77,640 | +2.0% | 12,500 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Pourers and casters, metal No bachelor's needed | $51,810 | -5.0% | 400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Power distributors and dispatchers No bachelor's needed | $106,730 | +1.2% | 700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Power plant operators No bachelor's needed | $102,040 | -5.1% | 2,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other No bachelor's needed | $68,990 | +2.5% | 1,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Prepress technicians and workers No bachelor's needed | $48,690 | -15.3% | 2,100 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Preschool teachers, except special education No bachelor's needed | $38,140 | +4.5% | 66,700 | Associate's degree |
| Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials No bachelor's needed | $35,060 | -15.7% | 2,200 | No formal educational credential |
| Print binding and finishing workers No bachelor's needed | $42,290 | -17.5% | 2,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Printing press operators No bachelor's needed | $45,780 | -8.7% | 12,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Private detectives and investigators Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $51,220 | +5.5% | 3,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists | $66,270 | +3.0% | 7,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Procurement clerks No bachelor's needed | $50,580 | -8.1% | 3,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Producers and directors Strong outlook | $90,360 | +4.0% | 12,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Production workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $40,110 | +0.8% | 27,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Production, planning, and expediting clerks No bachelor's needed | $59,650 | -1.3% | 32,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Project management specialists Strong outlook | $102,320 | +6.7% | 76,500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Proofreaders and copy markers | $51,120 | -0.9% | 1,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Property appraisers and assessors | $67,960 | +3.5% | 5,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Property, real estate, and community association managers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $69,990 | +3.7% | 36,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Prosthodontists Strong outlook | $311,180 | +5.8% | 0 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Protective service workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $42,540 | +3.0% | 22,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Psychiatric aides No bachelor's needed | $44,910 | +1.9% | 4,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Psychiatric technicians No bachelor's needed | $45,130 | +22.3% | 17,000 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Psychiatrists Strong outlook | $281,870 | +7.2% | 900 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Psychologists, all other | $110,840 | +2.3% | 3,500 | Master's degree |
| Psychology teachers, postsecondary Strong outlook | $80,340 | +4.0% | 3,700 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Public relations managers Strong outlook | $146,910 | +5.7% | 6,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Public relations specialists | $74,750 | +1.8% | 23,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Public safety telecommunicators Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $53,040 | +3.7% | 9,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $61,770 | +4.3% | 1,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Purchasing managers Strong outlook | $148,080 | +4.0% | 6,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Radiation therapists No bachelor's needed | $105,310 | +2.8% | 700 | Associate's degree |
| Radio, cellular, and tower equipment installers and repairers No bachelor's needed | $63,520 | +1.2% | 1,000 | Associate's degree |
| Radiologic technologists and technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $80,110 | +5.0% | 13,000 | Associate's degree |
| Radiologists | $420,860 | +3.4% | 700 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Rail car repairers No bachelor's needed | $67,530 | +2.6% | 1,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Rail transportation workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $56,360 | +4.4% | 100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Rail yard engineers, dinkey operators, and hostlers No bachelor's needed | $60,600 | +0.8% | 300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators No bachelor's needed | $70,070 | +1.5% | 1,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators and locomotive firers No bachelor's needed | $68,840 | +0.8% | 900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Railroad conductors and yardmasters No bachelor's needed | $78,000 | +0.9% | 3,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Real estate brokers No bachelor's needed | $73,220 | +0.8% | 7,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Real estate sales agents No bachelor's needed | $52,830 | +1.7% | 32,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Receptionists and information clerks No bachelor's needed | $38,010 | -1.7% | 105,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Recreation and fitness studies teachers, postsecondary | $77,270 | +2.2% | 1,000 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Recreation workers No bachelor's needed | $36,560 | +4.3% | 67,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Recreational therapists Strong outlook | $61,960 | +4.8% | 1,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Recreational vehicle service technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $52,000 | +9.7% | 2,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Refractory materials repairers, except brickmasons No bachelor's needed | $61,290 | -13.7% | 100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Refuse and recyclable material collectors No bachelor's needed | $49,690 | +2.1% | 15,500 | No formal educational credential |
| Registered nurses Strong outlook | $97,550 | +5.6% | 180,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Rehabilitation counselors | $46,850 | +2.2% | 8,200 | Master's degree |
| Reinforcing iron and rebar workers No bachelor's needed | $58,970 | -5.3% | 1,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Religious workers, all other | $45,280 | +1.5% | 12,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks No bachelor's needed | $44,390 | +2.5% | 11,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Residential advisors No bachelor's needed | $42,240 | +3.5% | 16,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Respiratory therapists Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $82,280 | +8.5% | 8,600 | Associate's degree |
| Retail salespersons No bachelor's needed | $35,410 | -0.3% | 520,600 | No formal educational credential |
| Riggers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $62,640 | +3.9% | 1,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Rock splitters, quarry No bachelor's needed | $48,740 | +5.8% | 400 | No formal educational credential |
| Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic No bachelor's needed | $50,140 | -8.3% | 1,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Roof bolters, mining No bachelor's needed | $78,540 | -18.9% | 100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Roofers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $55,440 | +5.3% | 12,000 | No formal educational credential |
| Rotary drill operators, oil and gas No bachelor's needed | $67,890 | +0.8% | 1,100 | No formal educational credential |
| Roustabouts, oil and gas No bachelor's needed | $46,960 | +3.6% | 4,100 | No formal educational credential |
| Sailors and marine oilers No bachelor's needed | $51,520 | +3.2% | 3,600 | No formal educational credential |
| Sales and related workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $48,280 | +1.1% | 13,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Sales engineers | $124,900 | +2.8% | 3,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Sales managers Strong outlook | $148,270 | +4.5% | 47,300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel No bachelor's needed | $69,990 | +2.7% | 115,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products No bachelor's needed | $72,080 | -0.9% | 99,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products | $104,920 | +1.2% | 23,600 | Bachelor's degree |
| Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood No bachelor's needed | $42,770 | -1.0% | 4,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| School bus monitors No bachelor's needed | $35,100 | -1.9% | 13,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| School psychologists | $95,990 | +0.8% | 3,400 | Master's degree |
| Secondary school teachers, except special and career/technical education | $72,040 | -0.2% | 63,500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive No bachelor's needed | $47,540 | -6.0% | 163,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents | $78,660 | +1.4% | 35,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Security and fire alarm systems installers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $60,070 | +6.8% | 8,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Security guards No bachelor's needed | $38,020 | +0.9% | 156,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Self-enrichment teachers No bachelor's needed | $46,800 | +3.5% | 50,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Semiconductor processing technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $51,430 | +8.2% | 3,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders No bachelor's needed | $51,610 | -5.7% | 5,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners No bachelor's needed | $49,880 | +7.8% | 2,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Service unit operators, oil and gas No bachelor's needed | $58,160 | +1.1% | 3,800 | No formal educational credential |
| Set and exhibit designers | $75,240 | +1.4% | 2,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Sewers, hand No bachelor's needed | $36,480 | -12.0% | 600 | No formal educational credential |
| Sewing machine operators No bachelor's needed | $36,670 | -15.1% | 9,800 | No formal educational credential |
| Shampooers No bachelor's needed | $32,600 | +5.6% | 2,200 | No formal educational credential |
| Sheet metal workers No bachelor's needed | $61,800 | +2.5% | 9,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Ship engineers No bachelor's needed | $109,530 | +2.7% | 900 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks No bachelor's needed | $45,260 | -7.6% | 61,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Shoe and leather workers and repairers No bachelor's needed | $37,800 | -6.5% | 1,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Shoe machine operators and tenders No bachelor's needed | $35,650 | -6.9% | 400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Shuttle drivers and chauffeurs No bachelor's needed | $37,290 | +7.1% | 35,500 | No formal educational credential |
| Signal and track switch repairers No bachelor's needed | $92,460 | +1.8% | 800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Skincare specialists No bachelor's needed | $45,330 | +8.8% | 14,200 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Slaughterers and meat packers No bachelor's needed | $40,130 | +2.0% | 7,700 | No formal educational credential |
| Social and community service managers Strong outlook | $80,390 | +7.2% | 18,500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Social and human service assistants No bachelor's needed | $45,930 | +7.4% | 48,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Social science research assistants Strong outlook | $61,990 | +5.0% | 4,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Social sciences teachers, postsecondary, all other | $72,990 | +1.6% | 1,300 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Social scientists and related workers, all other | $101,110 | -0.2% | 2,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Social work teachers, postsecondary | $77,570 | +2.6% | 1,100 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Social workers, all other | $71,900 | +2.3% | 5,800 | Bachelor's degree |
| Sociologists Strong outlook | $106,030 | +3.8% | 200 | Master's degree |
| Sociology teachers, postsecondary | $84,290 | +2.2% | 1,000 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Software developers Strong outlook | $135,980 | +10.2% | 95,300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Software quality assurance analysts and testers | $104,300 | +5.7% | 10,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Soil and plant scientists Strong outlook | $78,850 | +6.7% | 1,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Solar photovoltaic installers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $53,140 | +36.5% | 4,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Sound engineering technicians No bachelor's needed | $73,130 | -3.1% | 1,000 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Special education teachers, all other | $76,580 | +1.9% | 2,300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Special education teachers, kindergarten and elementary school | $65,120 | -0.4% | 16,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Special education teachers, middle school | $66,810 | -0.4% | 6,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Special education teachers, preschool | $64,830 | +2.4% | 2,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Special education teachers, secondary school | $74,260 | -0.2% | 10,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Special effects artists and animators | $102,030 | -0.3% | 4,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Speech-language pathologists Strong outlook | $97,870 | +16.6% | 12,500 | Master's degree |
| Stationary engineers and boiler operators No bachelor's needed | $78,620 | +3.1% | 3,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Statistical assistants | $50,330 | -1.8% | 500 | Bachelor's degree |
| Statisticians Strong outlook | $105,650 | +11.0% | 1,900 | Master's degree |
| Stockers and order fillers No bachelor's needed | $37,330 | +8.9% | 430,700 | No formal educational credential |
| Stonemasons No bachelor's needed | $57,390 | -5.4% | 500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Structural iron and steel workers No bachelor's needed | $62,780 | +3.1% | 5,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Structural metal fabricators and fitters No bachelor's needed | $51,330 | -6.2% | 4,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselors Strong outlook | $59,350 | +18.4% | 50,500 | Master's degree |
| Substitute teachers, short-term | $41,670 | +2.0% | 65,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Subway and streetcar operators Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $86,380 | +3.7% | 900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Surgeons, all other | $414,010 | +4.0% | 700 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Surgical assistants Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $66,800 | +6.1% | 1,400 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Surgical technologists Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $64,650 | +5.0% | 7,100 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Survey researchers | $69,460 | -4.8% | 600 | Master's degree |
| Surveying and mapping technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $54,240 | +5.8% | 6,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Surveyors Strong outlook | $75,440 | +5.8% | 3,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Switchboard operators, including answering service No bachelor's needed | $38,630 | -26.0% | 3,100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers No bachelor's needed | $41,640 | -8.8% | 3,700 | No formal educational credential |
| Tank car, truck, and ship loaders No bachelor's needed | $58,870 | +2.8% | 1,300 | No formal educational credential |
| Tapers No bachelor's needed | $68,270 | -1.6% | 900 | No formal educational credential |
| Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents | $62,370 | -1.0% | 4,400 | Bachelor's degree |
| Tax preparers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $54,920 | +4.7% | 9,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Taxi drivers No bachelor's needed | $42,100 | +11.5% | 20,400 | No formal educational credential |
| Teachers and instructors, all other | $66,140 | -0.2% | 15,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Teaching assistants, except postsecondary No bachelor's needed | $36,780 | -0.3% | 176,200 | Some college, no degree |
| Teaching assistants, postsecondary | $42,910 | +2.7% | 25,700 | Bachelor's degree |
| Technical writers | $90,390 | +0.8% | 3,200 | Bachelor's degree |
| Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers No bachelor's needed | $63,890 | -3.3% | 11,300 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Telecommunications line installers and repairers No bachelor's needed | $74,330 | -3.4% | 8,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Telemarketers No bachelor's needed | $35,450 | -21.4% | 5,800 | No formal educational credential |
| Telephone operators No bachelor's needed | $41,740 | -27.6% | 200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Tellers No bachelor's needed | $43,030 | -13.2% | 26,800 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Terrazzo workers and finishers No bachelor's needed | $76,170 | -13.0% | 100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders No bachelor's needed | $38,180 | -12.5% | 600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders No bachelor's needed | $38,760 | -13.6% | 900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders No bachelor's needed | $39,530 | -13.7% | 1,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders No bachelor's needed | $38,670 | -10.3% | 2,400 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $37,280 | -13.4% | 900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Therapists, all other | $77,930 | +12.6% | 3,600 | Bachelor's degree |
| Tile and stone setters Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $55,690 | +9.8% | 3,300 | No formal educational credential |
| Timing device assemblers and adjusters No bachelor's needed | $62,620 | -6.1% | 0 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Tire builders No bachelor's needed | $57,390 | +0.8% | 1,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Tire repairers and changers No bachelor's needed | $37,710 | +3.4% | 12,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers No bachelor's needed | $58,650 | +2.1% | 5,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Tool and die makers No bachelor's needed | $64,050 | -9.2% | 4,300 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners No bachelor's needed | $50,060 | -6.8% | 500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Tour and travel guides No bachelor's needed | $38,120 | +6.3% | 11,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Traffic technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $59,090 | +4.0% | 900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Training and development managers Strong outlook | $133,000 | +6.4% | 4,100 | Bachelor's degree |
| Training and development specialists Strong outlook | $69,280 | +10.8% | 46,000 | Bachelor's degree |
| Transit and railroad police No bachelor's needed | $90,230 | +3.2% | 300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Transportation inspectors No bachelor's needed | $92,100 | +2.2% | 2,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Transportation security screeners No bachelor's needed | $66,770 | -4.2% | 4,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Transportation workers, all other No bachelor's needed | $45,650 | +4.0% | 1,600 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Transportation, storage, and distribution managers Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $107,230 | +6.1% | 18,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Travel agents No bachelor's needed | $50,160 | +0.2% | 5,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Tree trimmers and pruners No bachelor's needed | $50,960 | +4.2% | 7,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Tutors No bachelor's needed | $43,350 | -0.2% | 34,200 | Some college, no degree |
| Umpires, referees, and other sports officials No bachelor's needed | $40,710 | +5.2% | 4,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Underground mining machine operators, all other No bachelor's needed | $70,130 | -1.0% | 300 | No formal educational credential |
| Upholsterers No bachelor's needed | $46,340 | -2.3% | 1,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Urban and regional planners Strong outlook | $89,320 | +3.9% | 3,200 | Master's degree |
| Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers No bachelor's needed | $32,910 | +0.9% | 27,300 | No formal educational credential |
| Veterinarians Strong outlook | $130,100 | +9.4% | 3,100 | Doctoral or professional degree |
| Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers No bachelor's needed | $38,150 | +9.1% | 23,200 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Veterinary technologists and technicians No bachelor's needed | $47,380 | +9.4% | 13,400 | Associate's degree |
| Waiters and waitresses No bachelor's needed | $35,230 | +2.0% | 423,100 | No formal educational credential |
| Watch and clock repairers No bachelor's needed | $67,230 | -0.3% | 100 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators No bachelor's needed | $60,020 | -5.7% | 10,000 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Web and digital interface designers | $104,000 | +6.0% | 8,300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Web developers | $92,650 | +3.8% | 5,300 | Bachelor's degree |
| Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping No bachelor's needed | $46,380 | -4.8% | 4,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers No bachelor's needed | $53,750 | +2.4% | 40,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders No bachelor's needed | $47,920 | -8.9% | 2,500 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Wellhead pumpers No bachelor's needed | $69,960 | -2.0% | 1,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Wind turbine service technicians Strong outlook No bachelor's needed | $64,120 | +29.5% | 1,500 | Postsecondary nondegree award |
| Woodworkers, all other No bachelor's needed | $44,530 | -2.3% | 1,700 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing No bachelor's needed | $43,380 | -2.5% | 5,300 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Word processors and typists No bachelor's needed | $49,280 | -34.4% | 1,900 | High school diploma or equivalent |
| Writers and authors | $76,910 | -0.3% | 11,900 | Bachelor's degree |
| Zoologists and wildlife biologists Strong outlook | $76,780 | +3.6% | 1,400 | Bachelor's degree |
Median yearly pay is from May 2025, for all workers at every experience level: half earn more, half less. Growth and openings are BLS projections for 2025 to 2035; openings include jobs that come open as people retire or change careers.