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Occupations with the largest job declines
This table also can be found in the article, "Occupational Employment Projections to 2018," published in the November 2009 Monthly
Labor Review.
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Table 1.5 Occupations with the largest job declines, 2008 and projected 2018
(Numbers in thousands)
2008 National Employment Matrix title and code |
Major occupational group |
Employment |
Change,
2008-18 |
Median annual wage quartile, May 2008 |
Most significant source of postsecondary education or training
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2008 |
2018 |
Numeric |
Percent |
Farmers and ranchers |
11-9012 |
Management, business, and financial |
985.9 |
906.7 |
-79.2 |
-8.03 |
H |
Long-term on-the-job training |
Sewing machine operators |
51-6031 |
Production |
212.4 |
140.9 |
-71.5 |
-33.66 |
VL |
Moderate-term on-the-job training |
Order clerks |
43-4151 |
Office and administrative support |
245.7 |
181.5 |
-64.2 |
-26.12 |
L |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators |
43-5053 |
Office and administrative support |
179.9 |
125.3 |
-54.5 |
-30.32 |
H |
Short-term on-the-job training |
File clerks |
43-4071 |
Office and administrative support |
212.2 |
162.6 |
-49.6 |
-23.36 |
L |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks |
43-5071 |
Office and administrative support |
750.5 |
701.2 |
-49.3 |
-6.57 |
L |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Telemarketers |
41-9041 |
Sales and related |
341.6 |
303.8 |
-37.8 |
-11.07 |
L |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Office and administrative support workers, all other |
43-9199 |
Office and administrative support |
306.7 |
271.0 |
-35.7 |
-11.64 |
L |
Short-term on-the-job training |
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers |
51-1011 |
Production |
681.2 |
645.5 |
-35.7 |
-5.24 |
H |
Work experience in a related occupation |
Packers and packagers, hand |
53-7064 |
Transportation and material moving |
758.8 |
724.8 |
-34.0 |
-4.48 |
VL |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic |
51-4031 |
Production |
236.8 |
203.5 |
-33.3 |
-14.05 |
L |
Moderate-term on-the-job training |
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers |
51-2022 |
Production |
213.3 |
182.0 |
-31.3 |
-14.66 |
L |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Machine feeders and offbearers |
53-7063 |
Transportation and material moving |
140.6 |
109.5 |
-31.2 |
-22.15 |
L |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers |
41-9091 |
Sales and related |
181.6 |
154.7 |
-26.9 |
-14.79 |
VL |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Information and record clerks, all other |
43-4199 |
Office and administrative support |
226.9 |
200.1 |
-26.7 |
-11.79 |
H |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders |
51-9196 |
Production |
103.3 |
81.0 |
-22.2 |
-21.54 |
H |
Moderate-term on-the-job training |
Computer operators |
43-9011 |
Office and administrative support |
110.0 |
89.5 |
-20.5 |
-18.60 |
H |
Moderate-term on-the-job training |
Machinists |
51-4041 |
Production |
421.5 |
402.2 |
-19.3 |
-4.57 |
H |
Long-term on-the-job training |
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand |
53-7062 |
Transportation and material moving |
2,317.3 |
2,298.6 |
-18.7 |
-0.81 |
L |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Miscellaneous agricultural workers |
45-2090 |
Farming, fishing, and forestry |
807.0 |
788.8 |
-18.2 |
-2.26 |
VL |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Data entry keyers |
43-9021 |
Office and administrative support |
284.3 |
266.9 |
-17.4 |
-6.13 |
L |
Moderate-term on-the-job training |
Switchboard operators, including answering service |
43-2011 |
Office and administrative support |
155.2 |
138.3 |
-16.9 |
-10.89 |
L |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers |
51-9061 |
Production |
464.7 |
447.8 |
-16.9 |
-3.63 |
L |
Moderate-term on-the-job training |
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service |
43-9051 |
Office and administrative support |
141.4 |
124.8 |
-16.6 |
-11.76 |
L |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic |
51-4034 |
Production |
55.7 |
40.8 |
-14.9 |
-26.73 |
H |
Moderate-term on-the-job training |
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic |
51-4033 |
Production |
92.7 |
77.9 |
-14.8 |
-15.92 |
L |
Moderate-term on-the-job training |
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders |
51-6064 |
Production |
34.9 |
20.7 |
-14.2 |
-40.70 |
L |
Moderate-term on-the-job training |
Postal service clerks |
43-5051 |
Office and administrative support |
75.8 |
62.1 |
-13.7 |
-18.02 |
H |
Short-term on-the-job training |
Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic |
51-4081 |
Production |
86.0 |
73.4 |
-12.6 |
-14.66 |
L |
Moderate-term on-the-job training |
Photographic processing machine operators |
51-9132 |
Production |
51.3 |
38.8 |
-12.5 |
-24.31 |
VL |
Short-term on-the-job training |
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