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Browse 809 U.S. occupations with median pay, projected job growth, annual openings, and the typical education each one needs, straight from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, then jump to CampusPin to find colleges to get there.
Data snapshot: June 14, 2026
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Explore career fields →Architecture and engineering occupations (36)
- Aerospace engineering and operations technologists and technicians
- Aerospace engineers
- Agricultural engineers
- Architects, except landscape and naval
- Architectural and civil drafters
- Bioengineers and biomedical engineers
- Calibration technologists and technicians
- Cartographers and photogrammetrists
- Chemical engineers
- Civil engineering technologists and technicians
- Civil engineers
- Computer hardware engineers
- Drafters, all other
- Electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians
- Electrical and electronics drafters
- Electrical engineers
- Electro-mechanical and mechatronics technologists and technicians
- Electronics engineers, except computer
- Engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters, all other
- Engineers, all other
- Environmental engineering technologists and technicians
- Environmental engineers
- Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors
- Industrial engineering technologists and technicians
- Industrial engineers
- Landscape architects
- Marine engineers and naval architects
- Materials engineers
- Mechanical drafters
- Mechanical engineering technologists and technicians
- Mechanical engineers
- Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers
- Nuclear engineers
- Petroleum engineers
- Surveying and mapping technicians
- Surveyors
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations (36)
- Art directors
- Artists and related workers, all other
- Athletes and sports competitors
- Audio and video technicians
- Broadcast announcers and radio disc jockeys
- Broadcast technicians
- Camera operators, television, video, and film
- Choreographers
- Coaches and scouts
- Commercial and industrial designers
- Court reporters and simultaneous captioners
- Craft artists
- Designers, all other
- Editors
- Fashion designers
- Film and video editors
- Fine artists, including painters, sculptors, and illustrators
- Floral designers
- Graphic designers
- Interior designers
- Interpreters and translators
- Lighting technicians
- Media and communication equipment workers, all other
- Media and communication workers, all other
- Merchandise displayers and window trimmers
- Music directors and composers
- News analysts, reporters, and journalists
- Photographers
- Producers and directors
- Public relations specialists
- Set and exhibit designers
- Sound engineering technicians
- Special effects artists and animators
- Technical writers
- Umpires, referees, and other sports officials
- Writers and authors
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations (10)
- Building cleaning workers, all other
- First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers
- First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers
- Grounds maintenance workers, all other
- Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners
- Landscaping and groundskeeping workers
- Maids and housekeeping cleaners
- Pest control workers
- Pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, vegetation
- Tree trimmers and pruners
Business and financial operations occupations (32)
- Accountants and auditors
- Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes
- Budget analysts
- Business operations specialists, all other
- Buyers and purchasing agents
- Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators
- Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
- Compliance officers
- Cost estimators
- Credit analysts
- Credit counselors
- Farm labor contractors
- Financial and investment analysts
- Financial examiners
- Financial risk specialists
- Financial specialists, all other
- Fundraisers
- Human resources specialists
- Insurance appraisers, auto damage
- Insurance underwriters
- Labor relations specialists
- Loan officers
- Logisticians
- Management analysts
- Market research analysts and marketing specialists
- Meeting, convention, and event planners
- Personal financial advisors
- Project management specialists
- Property appraisers and assessors
- Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents
- Tax preparers
- Training and development specialists
Community and social service occupations (17)
- Child, family, and school social workers
- Clergy
- Community and social service specialists, all other
- Community health workers
- Counselors, all other
- Directors, religious activities and education
- Educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors
- Health education specialists
- Healthcare social workers
- Marriage and family therapists
- Mental health and substance abuse social workers
- Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists
- Rehabilitation counselors
- Religious workers, all other
- Social and human service assistants
- Social workers, all other
- Substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselors
Computer and mathematical occupations (21)
- Actuaries
- Computer and information research scientists
- Computer network architects
- Computer network support specialists
- Computer occupations, all other
- Computer programmers
- Computer systems analysts
- Computer user support specialists
- Data scientists
- Database administrators
- Database architects
- Information security analysts
- Mathematical science occupations, all other
- Mathematicians
- Network and computer systems administrators
- Operations research analysts
- Software developers
- Software quality assurance analysts and testers
- Statisticians
- Web and digital interface designers
- Web developers
Construction and extraction occupations (60)
- Boilermakers
- Brickmasons and blockmasons
- Carpenters
- Carpet installers
- Cement masons and concrete finishers
- Construction and building inspectors
- Construction laborers
- Continuous mining machine operators
- Derrick operators, oil and gas
- Drywall and ceiling tile installers
- Earth drillers, except oil and gas
- Electricians
- Elevator and escalator installers and repairers
- Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface mining
- Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters
- Extraction workers, all other
- Fence erectors
- First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers
- Floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles
- Floor sanders and finishers
- Glaziers
- Hazardous materials removal workers
- Helpers--brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters
- Helpers--carpenters
- Helpers--electricians
- Helpers--extraction workers
- Helpers--painters, paperhangers, plasterers, and stucco masons
- Helpers--pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
- Helpers--roofers
- Helpers, construction trades, all other
- Highway maintenance workers
- Insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall
- Insulation workers, mechanical
- Loading and moving machine operators, underground mining
- Miscellaneous construction and related workers
- Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators
- Painters, construction and maintenance
- Paperhangers
- Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators
- Pile driver operators
- Pipelayers
- Plasterers and stucco masons
- Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
- Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
- Reinforcing iron and rebar workers
- Rock splitters, quarry
- Roof bolters, mining
- Roofers
- Rotary drill operators, oil and gas
- Roustabouts, oil and gas
- Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners
- Service unit operators, oil and gas
- Sheet metal workers
- Solar photovoltaic installers
- Stonemasons
- Structural iron and steel workers
- Tapers
- Terrazzo workers and finishers
- Tile and stone setters
- Underground mining machine operators, all other
Educational instruction and library occupations (64)
- Adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors
- Agricultural sciences teachers, postsecondary
- Anthropology and archeology teachers, postsecondary
- Architecture teachers, postsecondary
- Archivists
- Area, ethnic, and cultural studies teachers, postsecondary
- Art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary
- Atmospheric, earth, marine, and space sciences teachers, postsecondary
- Biological science teachers, postsecondary
- Business teachers, postsecondary
- Career/technical education teachers, middle school
- Career/technical education teachers, postsecondary
- Career/technical education teachers, secondary school
- Chemistry teachers, postsecondary
- Communications teachers, postsecondary
- Computer science teachers, postsecondary
- Criminal justice and law enforcement teachers, postsecondary
- Curators
- Economics teachers, postsecondary
- Education teachers, postsecondary
- Educational instruction and library workers, all other
- Elementary school teachers, except special education
- Engineering teachers, postsecondary
- English language and literature teachers, postsecondary
- Environmental science teachers, postsecondary
- Family and consumer sciences teachers, postsecondary
- Farm and home management educators
- Foreign language and literature teachers, postsecondary
- Forestry and conservation science teachers, postsecondary
- Geography teachers, postsecondary
- Health specialties teachers, postsecondary
- History teachers, postsecondary
- Instructional coordinators
- Kindergarten teachers, except special education
- Law teachers, postsecondary
- Librarians and media collections specialists
- Library science teachers, postsecondary
- Library technicians
- Mathematical science teachers, postsecondary
- Middle school teachers, except special and career/technical education
- Museum technicians and conservators
- Nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary
- Philosophy and religion teachers, postsecondary
- Physics teachers, postsecondary
- Political science teachers, postsecondary
- Postsecondary teachers, all other
- Preschool teachers, except special education
- Psychology teachers, postsecondary
- Recreation and fitness studies teachers, postsecondary
- Secondary school teachers, except special and career/technical education
- Self-enrichment teachers
- Social sciences teachers, postsecondary, all other
- Social work teachers, postsecondary
- Sociology teachers, postsecondary
- Special education teachers, all other
- Special education teachers, kindergarten and elementary school
- Special education teachers, middle school
- Special education teachers, preschool
- Special education teachers, secondary school
- Substitute teachers, short-term
- Teachers and instructors, all other
- Teaching assistants, except postsecondary
- Teaching assistants, postsecondary
- Tutors
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations (13)
- Agricultural equipment operators
- Agricultural inspectors
- Agricultural workers, all other
- Animal breeders
- Fallers
- Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse
- Farmworkers, farm, ranch, and aquacultural animals
- First-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers
- Forest and conservation workers
- Graders and sorters, agricultural products
- Log graders and scalers
- Logging equipment operators
- Logging workers, all other
Food preparation and serving related occupations (17)
- Bartenders
- Chefs and head cooks
- Cooks, all other
- Cooks, fast food
- Cooks, institution and cafeteria
- Cooks, private household
- Cooks, restaurant
- Cooks, short order
- Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers
- Dishwashers
- Fast food and counter workers
- First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers
- Food preparation and serving related workers, all other
- Food preparation workers
- Food servers, nonrestaurant
- Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop
- Waiters and waitresses
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations (54)
- Acupuncturists
- Athletic trainers
- Audiologists
- Cardiovascular technologists and technicians
- Chiropractors
- Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
- Dental hygienists
- Dentists, all other specialists
- Dentists, general
- Diagnostic medical sonographers
- Dietetic technicians
- Dietitians and nutritionists
- Emergency medical technicians
- Exercise physiologists
- Family medicine physicians
- General internal medicine physicians
- Genetic counselors
- Health information technologists and medical registrars
- Health technologists and technicians, all other
- Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other
- Healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other
- Hearing aid specialists
- Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
- Magnetic resonance imaging technologists
- Medical dosimetrists
- Medical records specialists
- Nuclear medicine technologists
- Nurse anesthetists
- Nurse midwives
- Nurse practitioners
- Occupational therapists
- Ophthalmic medical technicians
- Opticians, dispensing
- Optometrists
- Orthotists and prosthetists
- Paramedics
- Pediatricians, general
- Pharmacists
- Pharmacy technicians
- Physical therapists
- Physician assistants
- Podiatrists
- Psychiatric technicians
- Radiation therapists
- Radiologic technologists and technicians
- Recreational therapists
- Registered nurses
- Respiratory therapists
- Speech-language pathologists
- Surgical assistants
- Surgical technologists
- Therapists, all other
- Veterinarians
- Veterinary technologists and technicians
Healthcare support occupations (17)
- Dental assistants
- Healthcare support workers, all other
- Home health and personal care aides
- Massage therapists
- Medical assistants
- Medical equipment preparers
- Medical transcriptionists
- Nursing assistants
- Occupational therapy aides
- Occupational therapy assistants
- Orderlies
- Pharmacy aides
- Phlebotomists
- Physical therapist aides
- Physical therapist assistants
- Psychiatric aides
- Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations (51)
- Aircraft mechanics and service technicians
- Audiovisual equipment installers and repairers
- Automotive body and related repairers
- Automotive glass installers and repairers
- Automotive service technicians and mechanics
- Avionics technicians
- Bicycle repairers
- Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists
- Camera and photographic equipment repairers
- Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
- Commercial divers
- Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers
- Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door
- Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers
- Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment
- Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment
- Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay
- Electrical power-line installers and repairers
- Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles
- Farm equipment mechanics and service technicians
- First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers
- Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
- Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers
- Home appliance repairers
- Industrial machinery mechanics
- Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other
- Locksmiths and safe repairers
- Maintenance and repair workers, general
- Maintenance workers, machinery
- Manufactured building and mobile home installers
- Mechanical door repairers
- Medical equipment repairers
- Millwrights
- Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines
- Motorboat mechanics and service technicians
- Motorcycle mechanics
- Musical instrument repairers and tuners
- Outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics
- Precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other
- Radio, cellular, and tower equipment installers and repairers
- Rail car repairers
- Recreational vehicle service technicians
- Refractory materials repairers, except brickmasons
- Riggers
- Security and fire alarm systems installers
- Signal and track switch repairers
- Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers
- Telecommunications line installers and repairers
- Tire repairers and changers
- Watch and clock repairers
- Wind turbine service technicians
Legal occupations (8)
- Administrative law judges, adjudicators, and hearing officers
- Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators
- Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates
- Judicial law clerks
- Lawyers
- Legal support workers, all other
- Paralegals and legal assistants
- Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers
Life, physical, and social science occupations (48)
- Agricultural technicians
- Animal scientists
- Anthropologists and archeologists
- Astronomers
- Atmospheric and space scientists
- Biochemists and biophysicists
- Biological scientists, all other
- Biological technicians
- Chemical technicians
- Chemists
- Clinical and counseling psychologists
- Conservation scientists
- Economists
- Environmental science and protection technicians, including health
- Environmental scientists and specialists, including health
- Epidemiologists
- Food science technicians
- Food scientists and technologists
- Forensic science technicians
- Forest and conservation technicians
- Foresters
- Geographers
- Geological technicians, except hydrologic technicians
- Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers
- Historians
- Hydrologic technicians
- Hydrologists
- Industrial-organizational psychologists
- Life scientists, all other
- Life, physical, and social science technicians, all other
- Materials scientists
- Medical scientists, except epidemiologists
- Microbiologists
- Nuclear technicians
- Occupational health and safety specialists
- Occupational health and safety technicians
- Physical scientists, all other
- Physicists
- Political scientists
- Psychologists, all other
- School psychologists
- Social science research assistants
- Social scientists and related workers, all other
- Sociologists
- Soil and plant scientists
- Survey researchers
- Urban and regional planners
- Zoologists and wildlife biologists
Management occupations (38)
- Administrative services managers
- Advertising and promotions managers
- Architectural and engineering managers
- Chief executives
- Compensation and benefits managers
- Computer and information systems managers
- Construction managers
- Education administrators, all other
- Education administrators, kindergarten through secondary
- Education administrators, postsecondary
- Education and childcare administrators, preschool and daycare
- Emergency management directors
- Entertainment and recreation managers, except gambling
- Facilities managers
- Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers
- Financial managers
- Food service managers
- Fundraising managers
- Funeral home managers
- Gambling managers
- General and operations managers
- Human resources managers
- Industrial production managers
- Legislators
- Lodging managers
- Managers, all other
- Marketing managers
- Medical and health services managers
- Natural sciences managers
- Personal service managers, all other
- Postmasters and mail superintendents
- Property, real estate, and community association managers
- Public relations managers
- Purchasing managers
- Sales managers
- Social and community service managers
- Training and development managers
- Transportation, storage, and distribution managers
Office and administrative support occupations (54)
- Bill and account collectors
- Billing and posting clerks
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
- Brokerage clerks
- Cargo and freight agents
- Communications equipment operators, all other
- Correspondence clerks
- Couriers and messengers
- Court, municipal, and license clerks
- Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
- Customer service representatives
- Data entry keyers
- Desktop publishers
- Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance
- Eligibility interviewers, government programs
- Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants
- File clerks
- Financial clerks, all other
- First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers
- Gambling cage workers
- Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
- Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping
- Information and record clerks, all other
- Insurance claims and policy processing clerks
- Interviewers, except eligibility and loan
- Legal secretaries and administrative assistants
- Library assistants, clerical
- Loan interviewers and clerks
- Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service
- Medical secretaries and administrative assistants
- Meter readers, utilities
- New accounts clerks
- Office and administrative support workers, all other
- Office clerks, general
- Office machine operators, except computer
- Order clerks
- Payroll and timekeeping clerks
- Postal service clerks
- Postal service mail carriers
- Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
- Procurement clerks
- Production, planning, and expediting clerks
- Proofreaders and copy markers
- Public safety telecommunicators
- Receptionists and information clerks
- Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
- Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive
- Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks
- Statistical assistants
- Switchboard operators, including answering service
- Telephone operators
- Tellers
- Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping
- Word processors and typists
Personal care and service occupations (32)
- Amusement and recreation attendants
- Animal caretakers
- Animal trainers
- Baggage porters and bellhops
- Barbers
- Childcare workers
- Concierges
- Costume attendants
- Crematory operators
- Embalmers
- Entertainment attendants and related workers, all other
- Exercise trainers and group fitness instructors
- First-line supervisors of entertainment and recreation workers, except gambling services
- First-line supervisors of gambling services workers
- First-line supervisors of personal service workers
- Funeral attendants
- Gambling and sports book writers and runners
- Gambling dealers
- Gambling service workers, all other
- Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists
- Locker room, coatroom, and dressing room attendants
- Makeup artists, theatrical and performance
- Manicurists and pedicurists
- Morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers
- Motion picture projectionists
- Personal care and service workers, all other
- Recreation workers
- Residential advisors
- Shampooers
- Skincare specialists
- Tour and travel guides
- Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers
Production occupations (105)
- Adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders
- Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers
- Bakers
- Butchers and meat cutters
- Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters
- Chemical equipment operators and tenders
- Chemical plant and system operators
- Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders
- Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Coil winders, tapers, and finishers
- Computer numerically controlled tool operators
- Computer numerically controlled tool programmers
- Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders
- Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Cutters and trimmers, hand
- Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Dental laboratory technicians
- Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers
- Engine and other machine assemblers
- Etchers and engravers
- Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers
- Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Fabric and apparel patternmakers
- Fiberglass laminators and fabricators
- First-line supervisors of production and operating workers
- Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders
- Food batchmakers
- Food cooking machine operators and tenders
- Food processing workers, all other
- Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Foundry mold and coremakers
- Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders
- Furniture finishers
- Gas plant operators
- Grinding and polishing workers, hand
- Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Helpers--production workers
- Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
- Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
- Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Laundry and dry-cleaning workers
- Layout workers, metal and plastic
- Machinists
- Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers
- Medical appliance technicians
- Metal workers and plastic workers, all other
- Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders
- Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators
- Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Model makers, metal and plastic
- Model makers, wood
- Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic
- Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Nuclear power reactor operators
- Ophthalmic laboratory technicians
- Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
- Painting, coating, and decorating workers
- Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Patternmakers, metal and plastic
- Patternmakers, wood
- Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers
- Photographic process workers and processing machine operators
- Plant and system operators, all other
- Plating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Pourers and casters, metal
- Power distributors and dispatchers
- Power plant operators
- Prepress technicians and workers
- Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials
- Print binding and finishing workers
- Printing press operators
- Production workers, all other
- Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood
- Semiconductor processing technicians
- Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Sewers, hand
- Sewing machine operators
- Shoe and leather workers and repairers
- Shoe machine operators and tenders
- Slaughterers and meat packers
- Stationary engineers and boiler operators
- Structural metal fabricators and fitters
- Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers
- Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders
- Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other
- Timing device assemblers and adjusters
- Tire builders
- Tool and die makers
- Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners
- Upholsterers
- Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators
- Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers
- Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Woodworkers, all other
- Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing
Protective service occupations (24)
- Animal control workers
- Bailiffs
- Correctional officers and jailers
- Crossing guards and flaggers
- Detectives and criminal investigators
- Fire inspectors and investigators
- Firefighters
- First-line supervisors of correctional officers
- First-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers
- First-line supervisors of police and detectives
- First-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other
- First-line supervisors of security workers
- Fish and game wardens
- Forest fire inspectors and prevention specialists
- Gambling surveillance officers and gambling investigators
- Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective service workers
- Parking enforcement workers
- Police and sheriff's patrol officers
- Private detectives and investigators
- Protective service workers, all other
- School bus monitors
- Security guards
- Transit and railroad police
- Transportation security screeners
Sales and related occupations (22)
- Advertising sales agents
- Cashiers
- Counter and rental clerks
- Demonstrators and product promoters
- Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers
- First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers
- First-line supervisors of retail sales workers
- Gambling change persons and booth cashiers
- Insurance sales agents
- Models
- Parts salespersons
- Real estate brokers
- Real estate sales agents
- Retail salespersons
- Sales and related workers, all other
- Sales engineers
- Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel
- Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products
- Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products
- Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents
- Telemarketers
- Travel agents
Transportation and material moving occupations (50)
- Air traffic controllers
- Aircraft cargo handling supervisors
- Aircraft service attendants
- Airfield operations specialists
- Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers
- Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians
- Automotive and watercraft service attendants
- Bridge and lock tenders
- Bus drivers, school
- Bus drivers, transit and intercity
- Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels
- Cleaners of vehicles and equipment
- Commercial pilots
- Conveyor operators and tenders
- Crane and tower operators
- Dredge operators
- Driver/sales workers
- First-line supervisors of transportation and material moving workers, except aircraft cargo handling supervisors
- Flight attendants
- Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators
- Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers
- Hoist and winch operators
- Industrial truck and tractor operators
- Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
- Light truck drivers
- Locomotive engineers
- Machine feeders and offbearers
- Material moving workers, all other
- Motor vehicle operators, all other
- Motorboat operators
- Packers and packagers, hand
- Parking attendants
- Passenger attendants
- Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers
- Rail transportation workers, all other
- Rail yard engineers, dinkey operators, and hostlers
- Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators and locomotive firers
- Railroad conductors and yardmasters
- Refuse and recyclable material collectors
- Sailors and marine oilers
- Ship engineers
- Shuttle drivers and chauffeurs
- Stockers and order fillers
- Subway and streetcar operators
- Tank car, truck, and ship loaders
- Taxi drivers
- Traffic technicians
- Transportation inspectors
- Transportation workers, all other
- Wellhead pumpers
Career data is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections program (Employment Projections). Wages are 2024; projections cover 2024–2034. National figures are not institution-specific or graduate outcomes, and projections are estimates, not guarantees.