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Most job losses
Decline in employment by occupation, projected 2008–18
| Occupation |
Thousands of jobs |
Median annual wages, May 2008 |
Farmers and ranchers |
-79 |
33,550 |
Sewing machine operators |
-72 |
19,870 |
Order clerks |
-64 |
27,990 |
Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators |
-55 |
50,020 |
File clerks |
-50 |
23,800 |
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks |
-49 |
27,660 |
Telemarketers |
-38 |
21,960 |
First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers |
-36 |
50,440 |
Packers and packagers, hand |
-34 |
19,060 |
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic |
-33 |
28,160 |
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers |
-31 |
27,490 |
Machine feeders and offbearers |
-31 |
25,570 |
Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers |
-27 |
20,990 |
Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders |
-22 |
33,080 |
Computer operators |
-21 |
35,600 |
Machinists |
-19 |
36,210 |
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand |
-19 |
22,660 |
Data entry keyers |
-17 |
26,120 |
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers |
-17 |
31,240 |
Switchboard operators, including answering service |
-17 |
24,220 |
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