Occupational Data

Most Requested Tables

2008-2018 Occupational Employment Projections

• Fastest growing occupations
• Occupations with the largest job growth
• Employment by major occupational group
• Employment by occupation
• National employment matrix, detailed occupation by industry
• National employment matrix, detailed industry by occupation

Most Recent Analysis

T. Alan Lacey and Benjamin Wright, "Occupational employment projections to 2018,"Monthly Labor Review, November 2009.
Download article.

Other Articles on Occupations

• Occupational projections
• Projections evaluations

Occupational Information Network (O*NET)

The O*NET program is a leading source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. O*NET is the replacement for the U.S. Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT).

• O*NET Online

Earnings

Note that the data below do not project future earnings.

• Occupational earnings data from the household-based Current Population Survey (CPS)
• Occupational earnings data from the establishment-based Occupational Employment Statistics Survey (OES)
  • National
  • State
  • Metropolitan Area
• Earnings quartile rankings of occupations by employment size and education or training

Employment, Training, and Earnings Data

Compare occupations by any of:

• 2008 employment size,
• projected 2008-2018 percent or numerical change in employment,
• projected 2008-2018 job openings due to growth and replacement needs,
• usual education and training requirements,
• educational attainment distribution and
• opportunities for self-employment

Projections Methods

For a brief description, see BLS Handbook of Methods, Chapter 13. Employment Projections.

National Industry-Occupation Employment Matrix, 2008-2018

Visit our matrix web site to search by occupation to see the industries that had the largest numbers of workers in the occupation in 2008 or in which employment for that occupation is projected to increase the fastest or increase the most over the 2008-2018 period; or to search by industry to see which occupations in that industry had the most workers in 2008 and which will have the fastest growth or largest numerical increase over the 2008-2018 period.

State Occupational Employment Projections

Occupational employment projections are available for most States.

Special purpose files

(NOTE: These are large, complex data files for researchers and data developers who wish to conduct their own analyses or program the data for other purposes. These files reside at our ftp site.)

A description and links to the data files is available at special purpose files.

 

Last Modified Date: December 10, 2009