11b. Employed persons by detailed occupation and age : U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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11b. Employed persons by detailed occupation and age
[Numbers in thousands]
Occupation	2013
Occupation	Total, 16 years and over	16 to 19 years	20 to 24 years	25 to 34 years	35 to 44 years	45 to 54 years	55 to 64 years	65 years and over	Median age
Total employed	143,929	4,458	13,599	31,242	30,650	32,523	23,776	7,681	42.4

Management, professional, and related occupations	54,712	326	2,777	12,084	12,993	13,206	10,055	3,271	44.4
Management, business, and financial operations occupations	22,794	71	840	4,321	5,342	6,117	4,544	1,558	46.4
Management occupations	16,037	51	463	2,702	3,762	4,501	3,378	1,180	47.5
Chief executives	1,520	0	9	107	312	505	420	167	52.5
General and operations managers	1,075	0	22	202	283	337	187	44	45.6
Legislators	13	0	1	1	1	5	2	3	-
Advertising and promotions managers	51	0	4	17	11	8	9	1	40.3
Marketing and sales managers	907	5	30	225	249	241	133	24	42.8
Public relations and fundraising managers	55	0	2	23	9	13	6	1	41.1
Administrative services managers	113	0	3	10	29	32	31	8	49.4
Computer and information systems managers	602	0	12	108	199	182	90	12	44.3
Financial managers	1,218	4	41	299	296	328	208	41	43.8
Compensation and benefits managers	12	0	0	0	3	6	3	0	-
Human resources managers	219	0	6	42	66	61	37	7	44.3
Training and development managers	34	0	4	6	10	8	5	1	-
Industrial production managers	256	0	5	37	70	82	56	7	47.6
Purchasing managers	184	0	3	33	47	50	42	9	47.5
Transportation, storage, and distribution managers	264	1	8	53	62	88	46	7	45.8
Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers	929	8	27	95	111	177	242	270	56.1
Construction managers	821	1	20	151	191	224	184	50	46.9
Education administrators	804	0	17	112	197	233	200	45	48.1
Architectural and engineering managers	121	0	0	12	32	48	26	3	49.7
Food service managers	1,077	22	127	269	249	224	146	40	40.0
Funeral service managers	12	0	0	2	0	4	3	3	-
Gaming managers	17	0	2	3	6	3	2	1	-
Lodging managers	143	0	4	26	33	29	31	20	47.1
Medical and health services managers	585	1	13	83	147	162	145	34	48.3
Natural sciences managers	14	0	0	2	3	5	3	1	-
Postmasters and mail superintendents	31	0	1	3	5	10	10	1	-
Property, real estate, and community association managers	654	0	15	96	128	172	154	90	50.8
Social and community service managers	332	1	10	66	75	76	78	27	47.5
Emergency management directors	7	0	1	0	2	0	4	0	-
Managers, all other	3,969	8	79	618	934	1,191	876	263	48.4
Business and financial operations occupations	6,757	20	377	1,620	1,580	1,616	1,166	378	43.6
Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes	59	2	10	17	12	6	8	4	37.0
Buyers and purchasing agents, farm products	14	0	0	6	2	1	3	1	-
Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products	215	2	18	55	42	52	37	9	41.4
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products	271	1	10	46	64	79	59	12	46.9
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators	329	0	9	81	92	80	55	12	43.4
Compliance officers	195	0	4	41	40	53	45	12	48.0
Cost estimators	123	0	5	18	32	29	32	8	46.7
Human resources workers	584	1	34	150	158	133	81	26	42.2
Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists	83	0	4	17	26	17	15	3	43.6
Training and development specialists	119	0	7	34	24	27	22	4	42.5
Logisticians	88	0	8	22	9	27	20	3	46.1
Management analysts	811	1	34	156	168	203	167	82	47.2
Meeting, convention, and event planners	130	0	15	45	22	28	14	7	37.6
Fundraisers	81	2	5	17	24	13	17	3	42.9
Market research analysts and marketing specialists	241	1	24	75	54	50	26	9	38.5
Business operations specialists, all other	195	2	13	46	43	46	37	9	43.7
Accountants and auditors	1,814	4	87	451	442	443	293	94	43.2
Appraisers and assessors of real estate	98	0	3	19	16	29	24	7	49.9
Budget analysts	62	0	3	14	14	19	11	2	43.8
Credit analysts	30	0	3	11	7	6	3	0	-
Financial analysts	105	0	9	33	32	20	10	2	38.7
Personal financial advisors	383	1	25	89	92	85	60	31	43.5
Insurance underwriters	94	0	5	22	20	22	22	3	45.0
Financial examiners	14	0	4	1	3	2	4	1	-
Credit counselors and loan officers	365	1	24	97	94	82	59	9	42.3
Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents	60	0	0	14	13	25	7	1	45.6
Tax preparers	97	0	2	17	15	22	21	20	51.3
Financial specialists, all other	94	1	11	26	21	18	13	5	40.5
Professional and related occupations	31,917	255	1,936	7,762	7,651	7,089	5,511	1,713	43.1
Computer and mathematical occupations	3,980	20	235	1,062	1,143	946	476	98	41.1
Computer and information research scientists	18	0	1	4	4	5	3	0	-
Computer systems analysts	534	1	36	132	152	125	76	11	41.6
Information security analysts	48	0	4	8	16	12	7	2	-
Computer programmers	489	2	25	105	146	129	68	14	42.8
Software developers, applications and systems software	1,103	6	49	332	320	260	117	19	40.6
Web developers	192	1	22	60	60	36	12	2	37.5
Computer support specialists	517	5	46	150	125	107	71	12	40.1
Database administrators	98	0	2	24	30	30	11	1	42.0
Network and computer systems administrators	205	0	10	61	68	38	25	2	40.1
Computer network architects	135	0	2	27	50	41	12	3	42.3
Computer occupations, all other	410	4	28	96	116	105	43	19	41.5
Actuaries	28	0	4	7	7	6	3	1	-
Mathematicians	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	-
Operations research analysts	128	0	3	35	26	35	17	11	44.8
Statisticians	72	0	5	21	21	13	11	1	40.9
Miscellaneous mathematical science occupations	3	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	-
Architecture and engineering occupations	2,806	11	163	672	605	712	512	130	44.3
Architects, except naval	193	0	2	44	49	41	40	18	46.3
Surveyors, cartographers, and photogrammetrists	39	0	2	16	7	9	6	0	-
Aerospace engineers	144	1	5	32	34	40	27	6	45.1
Agricultural engineers	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	-
Biomedical engineers	11	0	0	7	0	2	0	1	-
Chemical engineers	61	0	5	14	11	12	13	5	44.7
Civil engineers	360	0	23	93	74	93	55	20	43.6
Computer hardware engineers	90	0	5	24	26	23	11	1	41.7
Electrical and electronics engineers	300	1	19	66	60	81	59	14	46.2
Environmental engineers	33	1	2	6	7	5	7	3	-
Industrial engineers, including health and safety	190	1	9	31	43	57	42	7	47.6
Marine engineers and naval architects	11	0	0	3	4	3	2	0	-
Materials engineers	46	0	3	11	8	17	4	3	-
Mechanical engineers	327	1	27	80	75	84	50	10	42.4
Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers	18	0	1	6	2	3	6	0	-
Nuclear engineers	4	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	-
Petroleum engineers	33	0	5	10	8	5	5	0	-
Engineers, all other	398	0	16	105	92	92	70	24	44.2
Drafters	125	1	10	33	26	33	21	1	41.6
Engineering technicians, except drafters	365	4	26	78	66	97	83	12	45.4
Surveying and mapping technicians	54	1	2	14	10	14	10	4	44.7
Life, physical, and social science occupations	1,307	5	79	330	325	258	236	75	42.8
Agricultural and food scientists	44	0	2	14	12	3	10	2	-
Biological scientists	112	0	8	26	31	21	19	6	42.3
Conservation scientists and foresters	32	0	1	7	6	8	8	2	-
Medical scientists	144	0	4	39	50	26	23	2	42.1
Life scientists, all other	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Astronomers and physicists	14	0	0	4	1	3	1	4	-
Atmospheric and space scientists	14	0	1	1	5	3	2	0	-
Chemists and materials scientists	121	0	7	38	31	24	18	3	39.6
Environmental scientists and geoscientists	94	0	4	25	17	28	16	4	44.4
Physical scientists, all other	158	0	6	31	52	39	21	9	43.2
Economists	34	0	0	7	12	6	6	3	-
Survey researchers	3	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	-
Psychologists	186	1	2	32	41	37	49	25	49.5
Sociologists	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0	-
Urban and regional planners	20	0	0	5	8	2	3	0	-
Miscellaneous social scientists and related workers	57	0	3	14	15	10	9	6	43.1
Agricultural and food science technicians	28	1	3	13	2	3	6	0	-
Biological technicians	21	0	1	7	4	6	3	0	-
Chemical technicians	61	0	3	17	10	12	14	4	45.3
Geological and petroleum technicians	22	0	2	7	3	5	5	1	-
Nuclear technicians	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	-
Social science research assistants	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	-
Miscellaneous life, physical, and social science technicians	133	2	30	34	22	20	20	2	35.4
Community and social service occupations	2,332	24	117	551	546	482	439	173	43.9
Counselors	727	11	35	181	171	152	130	46	43.2
Social workers	727	1	36	203	195	150	111	32	41.4
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists	105	0	2	25	39	28	9	1	42.9
Social and human service assistants	127	4	14	30	26	21	26	7	42.5
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists, including health educators and community health workers	106	2	7	24	27	22	20	4	41.9
Clergy	410	2	12	61	67	91	113	64	51.8
Directors, religious activities and education	57	0	5	13	11	11	13	4	45.0
Religious workers, all other	74	4	5	14	11	9	17	14	47.1
Legal occupations	1,809	6	56	367	419	446	372	144	46.0
Lawyers	1,092	1	4	205	279	258	232	113	47.1
Judicial law clerks	13	0	2	4	2	2	2	0	-
Judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers	55	0	0	3	10	13	20	10	53.7
Paralegals and legal assistants	404	2	36	101	83	101	72	9	42.0
Miscellaneous legal support workers	244	3	14	54	45	73	45	11	45.3
Education, training, and library occupations	8,623	90	579	2,029	2,008	1,879	1,529	509	43.3
Postsecondary teachers	1,313	5	100	285	255	248	269	152	45.7
Preschool and kindergarten teachers	695	8	75	195	160	143	91	23	39.6
Elementary and middle school teachers	3,038	6	132	743	838	683	506	130	43.0
Secondary school teachers	1,063	2	45	303	258	229	188	36	42.5
Special education teachers	377	3	11	99	96	95	64	10	42.9
Other teachers and instructors	753	32	107	159	136	117	130	71	41.3
Archivists, curators, and museum technicians	41	0	1	10	6	11	8	5	-
Librarians	194	2	7	27	35	54	53	17	50.5
Library technicians	39	4	9	6	7	5	7	1	-
Teacher assistants	918	26	80	164	178	255	169	47	44.8
Other education, training, and library workers	192	2	13	37	38	40	46	17	47.4
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	2,879	77	300	752	594	537	435	183	40.5
Artists and related workers	194	2	7	43	32	34	48	27	49.1
Designers	784	5	64	214	179	170	111	41	41.0
Actors	46	0	13	10	10	10	1	2	-
Producers and directors	150	0	9	46	35	33	24	4	41.2
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers	288	44	66	57	40	40	28	12	30.9
Dancers and choreographers	19	1	6	6	5	1	0	1	-
Musicians, singers, and related workers	202	10	11	51	36	30	45	18	44.0
Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other	35	2	3	12	5	5	8	1	-
Announcers	48	0	7	13	12	9	2	5	-
News analysts, reporters and correspondents	88	0	10	28	15	10	18	8	41.5
Public relations specialists	149	1	14	48	37	22	22	5	37.4
Editors	150	3	24	34	30	30	22	7	40.0
Technical writers	70	0	2	13	18	20	14	3	46.1
Writers and authors	209	0	14	52	35	47	34	27	45.2
Miscellaneous media and communication workers	90	1	6	24	24	17	13	4	40.4
Broadcast and sound engineering technicians and radio operators	99	2	8	34	18	22	12	2	39.0
Photographers	180	5	19	46	46	26	26	11	40.1
Television, video, and motion picture camera operators and editors	76	2	16	23	16	9	6	5	34.5
Media and communication equipment workers, all other	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	-
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	8,182	22	408	2,000	2,010	1,828	1,512	403	43.7
Chiropractors	58	0	0	10	19	15	7	6	44.4
Dentists	183	0	2	28	46	47	42	18	48.7
Dietitians and nutritionists	110	0	7	23	25	25	22	8	45.5
Optometrists	41	0	0	6	8	9	15	3	-
Pharmacists	277	0	11	75	73	55	45	18	42.7
Physicians and surgeons	934	0	5	192	243	213	170	111	46.8
Physician assistants	129	1	7	41	35	22	18	4	39.2
Podiatrists	12	0	0	1	4	3	1	2	-
Audiologists	16	0	0	2	5	3	4	2	-
Occupational therapists	112	0	3	35	35	24	13	2	40.7
Physical therapists	224	0	7	71	57	50	28	10	41.5
Radiation therapists	13	0	1	4	4	2	1	0	-
Recreational therapists	9	0	1	2	2	4	1	0	-
Respiratory therapists	110	0	2	20	25	28	28	7	48.0
Speech-language pathologists	137	0	2	44	34	26	26	5	42.5
Exercise physiologists	6	0	0	1	2	2	1	0	-
Therapists, all other	147	0	8	45	34	21	31	9	41.8
Veterinarians	87	1	1	16	26	18	24	3	46.8
Registered nurses	2,892	2	127	685	710	667	597	105	44.2
Nurse anesthetists	24	0	0	3	10	5	6	0	-
Nurse midwives	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	-
Nurse practitioners	126	0	0	26	32	36	26	6	45.3
Health diagnosing and treating practitioners, all other	25	0	0	3	7	10	4	2	-
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians	340	2	19	87	69	75	72	17	44.4
Dental hygienists	184	0	10	44	46	51	28	5	43.9
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians	362	0	19	107	86	73	70	7	41.9
Emergency medical technicians and paramedics	176	2	26	59	50	26	11	1	34.6
Health practitioner support technologists and technicians	554	11	91	172	110	98	55	16	36.1
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses	558	2	35	115	143	141	103	19	43.8
Medical records and health information technicians	88	0	5	12	18	26	21	6	49.8
Opticians, dispensing	47	0	6	9	8	12	8	4	-
Miscellaneous health technologists and technicians	122	0	8	33	25	31	20	5	43.3
Other healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	76	0	6	25	20	12	12	1	39.6

Service occupations	25,929	1,897	3,939	5,774	4,956	4,930	3,241	1,192	37.9
Healthcare support occupations	3,537	74	529	900	726	708	473	127	39.1
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides	2,134	43	300	495	433	458	315	90	40.4
Occupational therapy assistants and aides	19	0	1	9	3	3	2	1	-
Physical therapist assistants and aides	68	3	15	16	10	15	9	0	33.5
Massage therapists	172	0	21	42	40	33	28	9	41.8
Dental assistants	279	3	43	90	64	56	19	4	36.8
Medical assistants	458	3	91	144	103	63	47	8	35.1
Medical transcriptionists	52	0	2	5	10	14	17	4	52.5
Pharmacy aides	36	2	10	9	3	4	5	3	-
Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers	40	5	11	14	3	4	3	0	-
Phlebotomists	119	0	12	44	28	25	8	2	37.0
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations, including medical equipment preparers	160	13	23	34	30	33	21	6	38.4
Protective service occupations	3,130	108	246	746	807	706	370	146	40.8
First-line supervisors of correctional officers	36	0	1	10	8	12	4	0	-
First-line supervisors of police and detectives	115	0	1	7	37	48	20	2	47.0
First-line supervisors of fire fighting and prevention workers	58	0	0	8	17	19	12	2	45.6
First-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other	100	0	1	23	21	29	19	6	47.0
Firefighters	306	3	18	92	95	68	26	3	40.1
Fire inspectors	19	0	1	2	3	7	5	1	-
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers	413	2	37	96	133	94	40	11	40.1
Detectives and criminal investigators	158	0	2	28	59	41	25	3	43.5
Fish and game wardens	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-
Parking enforcement workers	9	0	0	2	2	2	2	0	-
Police and sheriff's patrol officers	697	2	26	212	235	157	51	14	40.0
Transit and railroad police	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-
Animal control workers	11	0	0	3	4	2	2	0	-
Private detectives and investigators	86	1	3	20	26	16	13	7	43.5
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers	858	13	115	218	142	171	121	77	41.0
Crossing guards	61	1	6	6	12	13	12	11	50.2
Transportation security screeners	28	0	1	6	8	10	3	0	-
Lifeguards and other recreational, and all other protective service workers	175	85	34	11	7	16	14	9	22.0
Food preparation and serving related occupations	8,209	1,210	1,971	1,946	1,188	1,057	616	221	29.4
Chefs and head cooks	425	9	46	125	106	92	36	11	38.5
First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers	581	27	123	153	106	98	54	20	33.8
Cooks	1,988	197	371	502	355	305	205	53	33.4
Food preparation workers	885	175	216	183	114	113	58	27	27.8
Bartenders	417	4	85	165	75	44	35	11	31.3
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food	377	69	101	78	37	49	30	14	27.6
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop	221	110	57	24	15	7	4	3	21.4
Waiters and waitresses	2,124	323	708	524	250	196	87	35	26.2
Food servers, nonrestaurant	229	29	46	41	39	36	26	12	33.2
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers	358	81	66	59	40	54	39	19	30.0
Dishwashers	301	62	61	63	33	47	26	9	29.0
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop	299	124	90	30	18	14	16	8	21.8
Food preparation and serving related workers, all other	4	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	-
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations	5,661	207	457	1,027	1,220	1,380	1,015	355	44.1
First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers	322	1	7	45	72	112	64	20	48.6
First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers	259	1	10	45	67	77	46	13	45.4
Janitors and building cleaners	2,275	83	181	364	410	561	495	181	46.8
Maids and housekeeping cleaners	1,401	38	96	241	342	364	245	76	44.3
Pest control workers	77	1	3	19	25	11	14	4	42.9
Grounds maintenance workers	1,327	84	161	312	304	254	150	62	38.5
Personal care and service occupations	5,392	298	736	1,155	1,015	1,080	767	343	40.0
First-line supervisors of gaming workers	157	2	16	41	39	30	21	7	40.5
First-line supervisors of personal service workers	228	1	11	45	54	65	39	14	44.7
Animal trainers	36	2	3	7	6	9	6	4	-
Nonfarm animal caretakers	175	9	45	49	19	28	21	4	32.1
Gaming services workers	102	2	10	20	24	19	15	12	42.7
Motion picture projectionists	5	0	3	1	0	1	0	0	-
Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers	39	11	12	6	1	1	5	4	-
Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers	174	42	44	25	12	16	18	16	26.3
Embalmers and funeral attendants	16	0	4	1	3	2	4	2	-
Morticians, undertakers, and funeral directors	39	0	1	7	7	9	9	6	-
Barbers	127	2	6	35	33	24	16	12	41.2
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists	786	10	77	217	175	149	108	50	40.3
Miscellaneous personal appearance workers	316	5	26	81	97	62	37	8	40.5
Baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges	87	1	14	18	13	21	10	9	41.2
Tour and travel guides	45	4	10	7	6	8	7	4	-
Childcare workers	1,230	122	211	226	200	238	170	62	37.7
Personal care aides	1,242	31	148	232	212	286	228	105	44.2
Recreation and fitness workers	444	44	71	99	85	91	39	15	36.8
Residential advisors	40	1	9	11	6	8	5	1	-
Personal care and service workers, all other	105	7	18	29	21	11	10	9	35.3

Sales and office occupations	33,246	1,500	4,081	6,891	6,136	7,083	5,596	1,960	41.7
Sales and related occupations	15,444	1,012	2,216	3,147	2,738	3,007	2,349	975	39.9
First-line supervisors of retail sales workers	3,223	25	262	750	713	746	528	200	43.0
First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers	1,188	2	35	206	286	347	223	89	46.4
Cashiers	3,254	664	887	592	355	343	289	124	26.7
Counter and rental clerks	101	8	14	15	16	20	22	6	44.1
Parts salespersons	98	1	10	25	19	18	23	2	42.6
Retail salespersons	3,230	260	739	644	446	476	455	209	34.7
Advertising sales agents	238	4	18	78	51	41	35	11	39.3
Insurance sales agents	602	4	36	148	108	140	117	49	45.6
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents	278	1	18	77	66	66	35	13	41.7
Travel agents	77	0	2	7	15	22	16	16	53.2
Sales representatives, services, all other	432	4	34	113	96	101	69	14	42.1
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing	1,319	8	63	258	332	351	241	66	44.9
Models, demonstrators, and product promoters	82	5	11	19	10	14	10	13	43.2
Real estate brokers and sales agents	769	3	22	105	140	195	195	108	50.7
Sales engineers	36	0	2	7	7	9	11	0	-
Telemarketers	93	6	26	26	10	17	6	2	31.3
Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers	191	5	14	36	32	42	38	25	46.7
Sales and related workers, all other	234	12	25	41	35	57	36	28	44.8
Office and administrative support occupations	17,802	488	1,864	3,743	3,398	4,076	3,247	985	43.1
First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers	1,363	2	54	262	338	361	286	60	45.7
Switchboard operators, including answering service	32	1	7	3	6	7	5	3	-
Telephone operators	29	1	3	7	4	7	5	1	-
Communications equipment operators, all other	3	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	-
Bill and account collectors	177	3	15	54	39	36	23	6	39.4
Billing and posting clerks	497	2	29	105	122	127	87	25	44.0
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks	1,241	5	59	187	236	319	296	138	50.0
Gaming cage workers	14	0	2	4	5	3	0	0	-
Payroll and timekeeping clerks	156	0	6	24	33	46	39	7	47.6
Procurement clerks	27	0	0	5	6	7	8	0	-
Tellers	369	19	101	94	44	50	51	11	30.9
Financial clerks, all other	55	0	6	10	13	11	11	3	42.7
Brokerage clerks	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	-
Correspondence clerks	11	0	1	4	3	1	2	1	-
Court, municipal, and license clerks	81	0	3	14	16	28	19	2	48.4
Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks	40	0	2	10	6	11	10	1	-
Customer service representatives	2,069	109	306	566	388	380	255	67	36.7
Eligibility interviewers, government programs	75	1	1	17	17	22	13	4	45.1
File clerks	257	19	34	48	46	50	44	16	40.8
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks	112	5	38	30	12	12	11	4	30.1
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan	146	2	13	38	26	40	21	6	42.2
Library assistants, clerical	87	9	15	15	9	16	17	7	39.4
Loan interviewers and clerks	168	0	10	57	43	31	18	8	39.9
New accounts clerks	25	1	2	8	5	4	4	1	-
Order clerks	94	5	12	23	17	18	14	4	37.8
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping	133	1	5	37	34	31	20	5	42.6
Receptionists and information clerks	1,326	63	243	311	206	234	191	79	37.6
Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks	119	0	9	32	19	31	24	5	44.2
Information and record clerks, all other	103	2	11	22	16	24	22	7	44.2
Cargo and freight agents	28	0	2	8	7	7	3	0	-
Couriers and messengers	198	4	15	34	41	45	36	22	46.1
Dispatchers	272	4	20	76	65	53	45	9	41.2
Meter readers, utilities	29	0	5	7	5	3	5	3	-
Postal service clerks	100	0	3	6	18	33	37	3	52.1
Postal service mail carriers	316	1	10	38	69	101	85	13	49.6
Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators	74	1	5	8	11	25	21	3	51.6
Production, planning, and expediting clerks	282	3	27	47	60	73	61	10	46.1
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks	563	10	81	120	107	141	86	18	41.1
Stock clerks and order fillers	1,508	121	303	353	226	241	190	72	35.2
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping	84	1	4	16	15	22	21	3	46.5
Secretaries and administrative assistants	2,922	28	135	504	543	821	690	200	48.5
Computer operators	95	1	5	15	21	31	18	4	47.2
Data entry keyers	307	8	39	60	68	62	59	12	41.9
Word processors and typists	101	2	7	20	17	24	22	10	48.4
Desktop publishers	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	-
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks	287	2	28	72	62	72	42	10	41.5
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service	75	1	6	9	12	19	22	7	50.0
Office clerks, general	1,184	41	135	237	227	257	202	85	42.7
Office machine operators, except computer	41	0	5	12	4	10	10	1	-
Proofreaders and copy markers	7	0	0	0	1	2	3	1	-
Statistical assistants	24	0	3	5	5	6	3	2	-
Office and administrative support workers, all other	494	9	39	110	103	118	91	24	43.9

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	13,058	295	1,138	3,052	3,014	3,185	1,929	446	41.9
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	964	89	138	225	189	165	114	44	37.2
First-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers	48	1	3	11	10	12	8	4	-
Agricultural inspectors	12	0	0	1	4	4	1	2	-
Animal breeders	4	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	-
Graders and sorters, agricultural products	94	3	10	19	21	19	18	4	42.4
Miscellaneous agricultural workers	679	79	112	179	122	98	67	23	33.7
Fishers and related fishing workers	40	2	2	6	9	11	6	5	-
Hunters and trappers	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	-
Forest and conservation workers	18	0	2	2	4	4	2	3	-
Logging workers	67	4	9	6	18	17	12	1	42.2
Construction and extraction occupations	7,130	139	582	1,755	1,716	1,729	998	213	41.6
First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers	631	0	18	119	155	191	121	26	46.2
Boilermakers	18	0	0	5	5	5	2	0	-
Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons	130	2	7	35	43	25	14	4	40.4
Carpenters	1,164	16	84	292	274	294	162	42	42.2
Carpet, floor, and tile installers and finishers	142	3	11	38	38	34	16	2	40.3
Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers	52	2	4	11	14	18	2	1	41.0
Construction laborers	1,536	55	175	416	346	322	181	41	38.8
Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators	22	0	3	6	4	3	5	0	-
Pile-driver operators	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators	352	6	18	74	79	99	68	9	45.1
Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers	126	2	4	43	39	26	10	2	39.6
Electricians	730	8	48	161	191	194	111	17	42.8
Glaziers	37	1	1	13	8	7	6	1	-
Insulation workers	50	1	6	10	15	13	4	1	40.3
Painters, construction and maintenance	517	12	45	123	125	121	75	15	41.5
Paperhangers	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	-
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters	553	5	46	141	130	137	79	16	41.6
Plasterers and stucco masons	27	1	5	6	5	9	1	1	-
Reinforcing iron and rebar workers	9	0	2	2	3	1	1	0	-
Roofers	203	6	23	68	55	28	17	7	37.3
Sheet metal workers	113	0	8	23	30	29	18	5	43.2
Structural iron and steel workers	49	2	5	14	14	10	2	2	-
Solar photovoltaic installers	5	0	1	2	0	2	0	0	-
Helpers, construction trades	63	4	20	14	15	7	2	1	31.3
Construction and building inspectors	101	0	2	8	13	36	34	8	53.3
Elevator installers and repairers	24	0	0	3	4	9	6	1	-
Fence erectors	35	1	2	13	7	8	2	1	-
Hazardous materials removal workers	32	0	4	7	10	6	6	1	-
Highway maintenance workers	97	2	5	17	18	30	22	3	48.1
Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators	13	1	1	3	2	4	3	0	-
Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners	10	0	2	0	6	2	0	0	-
Miscellaneous construction and related workers	29	1	2	7	5	8	4	2	-
Derrick, rotary drill, and service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining	43	0	5	15	10	9	5	0	-
Earth drillers, except oil and gas	33	0	4	9	8	10	2	0	-
Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters	8	0	0	3	2	3	1	0	-
Mining machine operators	58	1	4	23	13	10	8	0	37.4
Roof bolters, mining	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	-
Roustabouts, oil and gas	12	0	4	3	3	1	1	0	-
Helpers--extraction workers	3	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	-
Other extraction workers	95	7	12	25	26	16	7	3	36.7
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	4,964	67	419	1,072	1,109	1,291	817	189	43.0
First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers	266	0	8	41	55	87	63	12	48.1
Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers	285	2	21	67	82	61	40	12	42.0
Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers	129	1	6	31	28	42	20	2	44.2
Avionics technicians	10	0	2	3	2	3	1	0	-
Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers	30	0	1	6	4	4	9	5	-
Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment	7	0	2	0	2	1	1	0	-
Electrical and electronics repairers, industrial and utility	13	0	0	3	1	6	1	2	-
Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles	23	0	3	5	5	5	5	0	-
Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers	54	0	5	18	12	10	9	0	39.2
Security and fire alarm systems installers	72	0	9	23	14	13	8	5	39.4
Aircraft mechanics and service technicians	162	1	6	27	39	48	36	6	47.5
Automotive body and related repairers	168	4	15	36	36	36	31	10	43.2
Automotive glass installers and repairers	27	0	1	10	9	4	2	1	-
Automotive service technicians and mechanics	863	16	117	195	194	215	99	26	39.4
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists	316	6	36	64	67	91	44	8	41.7
Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics	218	3	13	56	50	47	43	7	42.6
Small engine mechanics	41	1	2	15	9	6	8	1	-
Miscellaneous vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers	98	11	22	27	18	12	6	2	30.5
Control and valve installers and repairers	23	0	2	4	3	10	4	0	-
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers	384	4	34	100	94	89	55	6	41.1
Home appliance repairers	52	0	4	11	10	15	10	3	48.2
Industrial and refractory machinery mechanics	437	3	17	72	93	134	103	16	48.0
Maintenance and repair workers, general	462	5	18	76	103	141	87	30	47.9
Maintenance workers, machinery	40	1	7	6	8	12	4	3	-
Millwrights	66	1	4	11	12	20	15	2	47.6
Electrical power-line installers and repairers	117	0	15	33	24	28	13	2	38.9
Telecommunications line installers and repairers	183	0	13	46	58	43	18	5	40.9
Precision instrument and equipment repairers	76	0	3	19	14	19	16	5	46.1
Wind turbine service technicians	3	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	-
Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers	40	1	4	5	8	12	8	2	-
Commercial divers	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	-
Locksmiths and safe repairers	29	0	4	2	2	10	9	3	-
Manufactured building and mobile home installers	8	0	1	1	4	1	1	0	-
Riggers	13	0	2	1	4	5	1	0	-
Signal and track switch repairers	6	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	-
Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers	22	2	5	5	2	4	3	1	-
Other installation, maintenance, and repair workers	215	2	17	49	41	54	40	13	44.2

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	16,984	441	1,664	3,442	3,551	4,119	2,955	812	43.1
Production occupations	8,275	144	767	1,745	1,783	2,059	1,475	302	43.0
First-line supervisors of production and operating workers	731	1	17	124	171	235	154	29	47.2
Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers	14	0	1	4	4	2	2	1	-
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers	141	1	12	23	26	44	28	7	45.5
Engine and other machine assemblers	20	0	2	5	4	5	3	1	-
Structural metal fabricators and fitters	23	0	0	4	6	9	4	0	-
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators	1,013	21	120	214	235	230	156	36	41.6
Bakers	207	9	34	47	30	44	34	9	39.1
Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers	323	11	45	80	74	66	37	10	38.4
Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders	10	1	1	2	3	2	1	1	-
Food batchmakers	93	8	11	20	17	18	16	4	38.6
Food cooking machine operators and tenders	9	1	1	1	4	1	1	0	-
Food processing workers, all other	123	1	17	29	27	27	20	2	40.7
Computer control programmers and operators	85	1	5	23	24	17	14	1	41.3
Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	13	0	0	4	4	3	2	0	-
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	8	0	0	0	1	3	4	0	-
Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	4	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	-
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	76	3	8	18	18	20	9	1	41.5
Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	57	0	5	12	12	12	12	4	44.9
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	11	0	1	1	1	4	2	1	-
Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	5	0	0	2	2	1	0	0	-
Machinists	398	5	25	75	79	102	92	20	46.2
Metal furnace operators, tenders, pourers, and casters	24	0	2	4	7	4	5	1	-
Model makers and patternmakers, metal and plastic	7	0	0	1	1	2	0	2	-
Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	50	1	6	10	11	14	8	1	43.6
Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	4	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	-
Tool and die makers	53	0	1	5	9	18	17	2	51.1
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers	575	8	67	162	132	122	72	13	39.2
Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	9	1	2	4	1	1	1	0	-
Layout workers, metal and plastic	5	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	-
Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	18	0	2	5	5	4	1	1	-
Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners	5	0	0	1	2	1	1	0	-
Metal workers and plastic workers, all other	338	5	31	63	86	85	61	8	43.2
Prepress technicians and workers	29	1	0	5	7	11	3	2	-
Printing press operators	193	1	13	44	33	61	35	7	46.2
Print binding and finishing workers	26	0	3	4	2	8	7	2	-
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers	167	7	16	31	34	37	32	9	43.2
Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials	55	1	0	15	10	16	9	4	45.7
Sewing machine operators	158	0	16	21	26	47	41	6	48.0
Shoe and leather workers and repairers	15	0	0	4	2	4	2	4	-
Shoe machine operators and tenders	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	-
Tailors, dressmakers, and sewers	84	0	5	7	15	23	23	10	52.5
Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	-
Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders	6	0	0	1	2	2	0	1	-
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders	6	0	1	1	1	2	1	0	-
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders	16	0	0	2	9	2	2	1	-
Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-
Fabric and apparel patternmakers	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-
Upholsterers	35	1	0	3	5	17	8	1	-
Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other	14	1	0	3	3	2	3	2	-
Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters	47	2	4	7	8	14	11	1	-
Furniture finishers	7	0	1	1	1	2	2	0	-
Model makers and patternmakers, wood	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood	33	2	3	8	4	7	8	1	-
Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing	19	1	3	3	4	5	3	0	-
Woodworkers, all other	19	0	1	3	2	8	3	2	-
Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers	45	0	1	6	15	13	7	2	-
Stationary engineers and boiler operators	91	0	1	19	19	23	23	5	48.6
Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators	68	0	4	8	11	26	16	2	49.8
Miscellaneous plant and system operators	37	0	2	7	8	11	10	1	-
Chemical processing machine setters, operators, and tenders	54	2	3	9	9	23	6	1	44.5
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers	87	2	10	19	21	20	13	3	41.4
Cutting workers	59	2	6	17	11	12	11	2	40.8
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders	26	0	3	3	6	7	7	0	-
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders	15	0	1	2	6	5	1	0	-
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers	686	8	58	153	144	152	151	22	43.8
Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers	54	0	2	8	13	11	10	10	48.6
Medical, dental, and ophthalmic laboratory technicians	85	0	8	17	20	17	21	3	43.6
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	304	6	37	73	66	78	35	10	39.9
Painting workers	147	1	16	38	24	35	26	5	41.4
Photographic process workers and processing machine operators	43	4	13	8	7	6	4	0	-
Semiconductor processors	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	-
Adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders	12	0	2	1	4	4	1	0	-
Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders	4	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	-
Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	-
Etchers and engravers	7	0	1	1	1	3	1	0	-
Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic	41	0	8	7	9	11	4	1	-
Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders	24	0	2	6	8	3	5	0	-
Tire builders	21	1	5	3	6	2	3	1	-
Helpers--production workers	39	6	7	8	6	4	7	1	-
Production workers, all other	933	17	93	222	197	224	154	25	41.6
Transportation and material moving occupations	8,709	297	897	1,697	1,768	2,060	1,479	510	43.1
Supervisors of transportation and material moving workers	194	1	13	42	50	52	34	2	42.5
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers	135	0	2	21	34	41	32	4	47.3
Air traffic controllers and airfield operations specialists	40	0	0	14	6	15	3	2	-
Flight attendants	89	0	1	10	18	30	24	5	49.4
Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians	17	1	4	4	1	2	3	2	-
Bus drivers	582	1	21	53	99	161	158	90	52.7
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers	3,252	39	199	545	741	903	622	203	46.0
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs	338	2	9	55	60	96	72	43	49.2
Motor vehicle operators, all other	74	4	7	6	7	8	10	33	59.3
Locomotive engineers and operators	58	0	2	7	19	16	13	0	46.0
Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators	10	0	1	1	4	2	2	0	-
Railroad conductors and yardmasters	50	0	2	16	18	8	5	1	39.0
Subway, streetcar, and other rail transportation workers	9	0	0	3	2	1	2	0	-
Sailors and marine oilers	30	2	2	10	6	6	5	1	-
Ship and boat captains and operators	40	0	3	9	8	10	7	3	-
Ship engineers	4	0	0	0	3	1	0	0	-
Bridge and lock tenders	5	0	0	0	1	2	3	0	-
Parking lot attendants	88	5	35	18	6	11	7	6	28.3
Automotive and watercraft service attendants	92	13	29	19	12	9	7	3	27.3
Transportation inspectors	45	0	4	9	3	13	12	3	-
Transportation attendants, except flight attendants	37	1	2	6	7	9	8	4	-
Other transportation workers	21	1	5	1	3	7	4	0	-
Conveyor operators and tenders	5	0	1	1	1	2	0	0	-
Crane and tower operators	72	0	8	10	20	14	18	2	45.1
Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators	40	1	1	9	6	9	8	5	-
Hoist and winch operators	7	0	0	3	1	2	0	0	-
Industrial truck and tractor operators	557	7	54	163	118	128	77	10	40.0
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment	348	43	78	87	56	49	28	8	31.1
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	1,752	123	315	420	335	303	208	49	35.8
Machine feeders and offbearers	21	1	1	5	5	5	4	0	-
Packers and packagers, hand	493	48	81	96	82	98	68	20	38.1
Pumping station operators	30	0	3	10	4	6	6	2	-
Refuse and recyclable material collectors	108	2	10	32	20	24	15	6	41.1
Mine shuttle car operators	4	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	-
Tank car, truck, and ship loaders	7	0	0	4	1	2	1	0	-
Material moving workers, all other	51	3	4	8	9	12	12	2	46.1
NOTE: Median age represents the midpoint in the age distribution such that half of workers are younger and half are older. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values not shown where base is less than 50,000).

Last Modified Date: April 21, 2016