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11b. Employed persons by detailed occupation and age
[Numbers in thousands]
Occupation	2014
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	146,305	4,548	13,894	31,975	30,966	32,556	24,395	7,971	42.3

Management, professional, and related occupations	56,050	323	3,052	12,587	13,278	13,205	10,164	3,441	44.1
Management, business, and financial operations occupations	23,171	64	963	4,431	5,471	6,058	4,588	1,596	45.9
Management occupations	16,199	45	520	2,753	3,847	4,484	3,366	1,183	47.0
Chief executives	1,603	1	11	134	289	518	487	163	52.3
General and operations managers	887	0	25	177	233	260	161	31	45.1
Legislators	17	0	1	1	5	3	3	5	-
Advertising and promotions managers	52	0	4	23	11	8	5	1	35.2
Marketing and sales managers	917	0	40	227	263	225	137	26	42.4
Public relations and fundraising managers	71	0	4	21	13	16	17	2	46.0
Administrative services managers	134	1	3	15	29	39	40	8	49.9
Computer and information systems managers	629	1	5	111	195	195	103	18	44.9
Financial managers	1,194	0	41	259	303	330	210	50	44.3
Compensation and benefits managers	17	0	0	2	2	9	4	0	-
Human resources managers	236	0	5	30	72	80	39	10	45.7
Training and development managers	38	0	2	8	14	8	6	0	-
Industrial production managers	273	0	5	39	70	88	63	8	47.6
Purchasing managers	193	0	5	35	51	49	44	9	47.6
Transportation, storage, and distribution managers	260	1	11	59	74	64	41	10	43.4
Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers	941	5	24	99	123	182	237	271	55.6
Construction managers	711	1	14	123	198	200	142	33	46.1
Education administrators	838	1	17	133	236	226	187	38	46.2
Architectural and engineering managers	122	0	0	16	26	48	29	2	50.1
Food service managers	1,113	21	143	287	269	208	144	41	39.0
Funeral service managers	13	0	0	2	2	4	2	4	-
Gaming managers	28	0	3	3	8	8	5	1	-
Lodging managers	146	1	13	28	32	36	25	11	44.6
Medical and health services managers	593	0	9	99	155	160	137	33	47.1
Natural sciences managers	18	0	0	1	7	5	2	2	-
Postmasters and mail superintendents	33	0	3	3	7	11	7	1	-
Property, real estate, and community association managers	674	1	23	117	133	148	164	89	49.7
Social and community service managers	362	2	13	76	77	89	74	30	47.0
Emergency management directors	8	0	0	0	3	1	3	1	-
Managers, all other	4,075	9	96	626	948	1,265	848	284	47.9
Business and financial operations occupations	6,972	19	442	1,678	1,623	1,574	1,222	413	43.4
Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes	52	0	4	18	9	9	11	2	39.8
Buyers and purchasing agents, farm products	15	0	2	3	3	2	3	2	-
Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products	216	2	25	43	51	47	36	11	41.4
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products	271	1	13	52	56	72	60	15	47.0
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators	311	0	13	68	90	75	52	13	42.9
Compliance officers	239	0	6	46	58	64	52	13	45.4
Cost estimators	105	0	4	24	19	20	30	7	46.7
Human resources workers	615	2	43	172	147	126	93	32	42.1
Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists	71	0	3	21	14	20	12	2	42.6
Training and development specialists	128	1	1	38	29	30	24	4	43.7
Logisticians	100	0	6	31	20	22	18	3	42.2
Management analysts	850	1	38	174	187	199	161	90	46.0
Meeting, convention, and event planners	156	3	30	49	31	22	16	5	34.3
Fundraisers	92	1	10	23	20	18	17	4	40.5
Market research analysts and marketing specialists	284	0	38	86	68	50	34	9	37.6
Business operations specialists, all other	194	1	13	47	50	46	31	7	43.0
Accountants and auditors	1,724	2	94	407	403	417	296	105	44.0
Appraisers and assessors of real estate	95	0	1	20	15	28	22	9	49.8
Budget analysts	48	0	2	12	12	12	9	0	-
Credit analysts	28	0	3	9	6	6	3	1	-
Financial analysts	261	0	27	79	74	38	38	5	38.3
Personal financial advisors	434	1	33	100	101	91	82	27	43.9
Insurance underwriters	113	0	3	33	21	27	26	3	45.5
Financial examiners	16	0	2	3	6	3	2	0	-
Credit counselors and loan officers	288	1	22	74	72	67	46	7	41.8
Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents	70	0	0	15	21	19	11	5	44.1
Tax preparers	103	1	0	17	18	18	22	26	52.2
Financial specialists, all other	93	0	7	16	24	25	16	5	44.4
Professional and related occupations	32,879	259	2,090	8,156	7,807	7,147	5,576	1,845	42.8
Computer and mathematical occupations	4,303	25	261	1,190	1,177	989	549	112	41.1
Computer and information research scientists	29	0	1	12	5	5	5	1	-
Computer systems analysts	511	1	37	122	140	120	74	17	41.9
Information security analysts	68	0	4	12	18	17	14	2	44.8
Computer programmers	509	3	31	127	131	130	73	15	42.1
Software developers, applications and systems software	1,235	2	64	373	360	290	121	26	40.3
Web developers	220	4	23	88	56	27	16	5	36.5
Computer support specialists	524	7	50	142	135	110	66	13	40.3
Database administrators	108	0	1	21	35	23	24	5	45.6
Network and computer systems administrators	205	0	7	53	66	53	23	3	41.6
Computer network architects	123	0	3	33	38	31	12	5	42.3
Computer occupations, all other	512	9	29	124	135	120	82	13	42.2
Actuaries	28	0	4	12	4	6	2	0	-
Mathematicians	3	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	-
Operations research analysts	138	0	3	36	30	38	27	4	44.1
Statisticians	85	0	4	33	21	17	7	3	38.4
Miscellaneous mathematical science occupations	5	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	-
Architecture and engineering occupations	2,798	13	195	652	603	660	544	132	44.0
Architects, except naval	178	0	7	46	44	34	32	15	43.8
Surveyors, cartographers, and photogrammetrists	41	0	4	12	6	8	8	3	-
Aerospace engineers	147	0	6	31	33	34	38	5	46.9
Agricultural engineers	4	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	-
Biomedical engineers	14	0	1	5	1	4	2	1	-
Chemical engineers	79	0	10	23	10	23	13	1	40.2
Civil engineers	349	0	24	89	64	81	64	27	43.8
Computer hardware engineers	84	0	3	17	24	20	15	4	44.5
Electrical and electronics engineers	271	0	15	62	57	72	51	12	45.3
Environmental engineers	42	0	2	11	13	10	4	2	-
Industrial engineers, including health and safety	194	0	17	44	35	50	40	8	43.9
Marine engineers and naval architects	9	0	1	2	1	5	0	0	-
Materials engineers	35	0	0	9	8	10	7	1	-
Mechanical engineers	303	0	23	77	72	72	47	12	42.6
Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers	15	0	1	3	5	4	3	0	-
Nuclear engineers	5	0	1	2	2	0	1	0	-
Petroleum engineers	37	0	1	12	10	6	8	1	-
Engineers, all other	406	3	14	92	88	96	88	25	45.8
Drafters	138	0	17	26	36	32	24	2	41.7
Engineering technicians, except drafters	369	5	38	69	75	85	84	12	44.0
Surveying and mapping technicians	77	3	10	17	17	14	15	1	40.6
Life, physical, and social science occupations	1,355	4	105	336	337	262	213	98	42.4
Agricultural and food scientists	31	0	2	11	7	8	2	1	-
Biological scientists	110	0	9	23	33	19	20	6	42.9
Conservation scientists and foresters	27	0	1	7	8	3	7	1	-
Medical scientists	143	0	7	43	40	24	20	9	41.4
Life scientists, all other	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Astronomers and physicists	12	0	1	2	1	2	3	3	-
Atmospheric and space scientists	7	0	2	1	1	3	1	0	-
Chemists and materials scientists	102	0	6	25	26	24	15	5	41.8
Environmental scientists and geoscientists	91	0	7	17	24	20	19	4	44.8
Physical scientists, all other	183	0	8	45	53	39	25	13	42.9
Economists	33	0	2	8	12	5	3	3	-
Survey researchers	4	1	0	1	1	0	1	0	-
Psychologists	232	0	2	45	53	46	47	39	48.8
Sociologists	3	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	-
Urban and regional planners	24	0	1	5	8	5	5	1	-
Miscellaneous social scientists and related workers	42	0	3	12	10	8	5	4	-
Agricultural and food science technicians	39	0	2	16	8	8	3	3	-
Biological technicians	25	0	10	7	5	3	0	1	-
Chemical technicians	71	0	6	21	17	13	11	3	39.3
Geological and petroleum technicians	20	0	1	7	2	7	3	0	-
Nuclear technicians	6	0	0	0	1	3	1	1	-
Social science research assistants	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	-
Miscellaneous life, physical, and social science technicians	149	2	37	36	27	22	23	2	35.6
Community and social service occupations	2,495	20	142	586	588	542	446	172	43.6
Counselors	737	16	50	189	164	144	134	39	42.5
Social workers	799	0	33	219	215	178	117	36	41.8
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists	100	0	2	24	39	24	11	0	41.5
Social and human service assistants	180	1	16	40	42	36	34	11	42.9
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists, including health educators and community health workers	114	2	10	27	22	22	23	9	44.0
Clergy	433	1	16	61	80	109	101	67	50.5
Directors, religious activities and education	64	0	6	18	11	11	15	3	41.9
Religious workers, all other	68	1	8	9	15	19	10	6	44.6
Legal occupations	1,814	5	37	388	405	431	387	160	46.3
Lawyers	1,132	0	5	223	276	254	250	123	47.0
Judicial law clerks	12	0	0	6	3	1	2	0	-
Judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers	53	0	1	5	7	17	16	8	54.0
Paralegals and legal assistants	417	2	25	110	86	104	72	18	42.6
Miscellaneous legal support workers	200	3	7	45	33	55	47	10	47.3
Education, training, and library occupations	8,686	97	617	2,027	2,034	1,857	1,508	545	43.1
Postsecondary teachers	1,259	5	84	296	229	236	260	150	46.0
Preschool and kindergarten teachers	664	6	67	192	158	135	77	29	39.5
Elementary and middle school teachers	3,102	8	139	766	855	709	479	146	42.6
Secondary school teachers	1,099	2	53	296	282	233	189	43	42.7
Special education teachers	336	0	15	78	80	72	80	11	45.2
Other teachers and instructors	836	49	119	182	142	140	129	75	40.3
Archivists, curators, and museum technicians	47	0	6	6	15	10	7	3	-
Librarians	198	2	6	25	47	41	55	21	49.1
Library technicians	36	6	10	4	4	5	6	1	-
Teacher assistants	904	18	105	142	179	226	185	47	45.0
Other education, training, and library workers	206	0	14	39	42	50	43	17	46.5
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	2,935	66	297	760	620	565	440	188	40.9
Artists and related workers	203	2	9	38	37	44	49	24	48.0
Designers	830	5	72	216	187	179	125	46	41.8
Actors	43	3	4	9	10	9	4	4	-
Producers and directors	161	0	15	48	31	35	24	8	40.5
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers	294	37	61	71	55	33	27	10	31.7
Dancers and choreographers	18	2	6	5	1	2	2	1	-
Musicians, singers, and related workers	194	4	13	40	37	39	37	24	46.9
Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other	38	2	6	9	9	3	6	3	-
Announcers	60	0	9	19	15	8	7	2	38.2
News analysts, reporters and correspondents	80	1	16	30	16	9	5	3	33.6
Public relations specialists	136	0	12	48	31	23	16	5	38.3
Editors	163	2	15	40	35	34	26	11	41.2
Technical writers	61	0	3	14	10	17	15	1	45.7
Writers and authors	221	1	17	49	42	45	44	24	45.3
Miscellaneous media and communication workers	78	0	6	9	23	21	13	7	44.2
Broadcast and sound engineering technicians and radio operators	108	2	16	29	21	26	11	3	39.6
Photographers	174	3	11	64	42	25	18	11	38.9
Television, video, and motion picture camera operators and editors	72	3	7	22	18	10	11	1	37.9
Media and communication equipment workers, all other	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	8,493	29	435	2,218	2,044	1,840	1,490	438	43.0
Chiropractors	66	0	0	12	16	17	14	8	45.7
Dentists	192	0	2	28	51	34	47	30	49.0
Dietitians and nutritionists	123	1	9	34	20	27	25	6	43.3
Optometrists	48	0	0	8	12	12	12	4	-
Pharmacists	293	0	12	90	70	54	47	20	42.0
Physicians and surgeons	1,014	0	9	224	262	221	189	108	45.8
Physician assistants	84	0	4	34	19	11	14	2	38.7
Podiatrists	8	0	0	1	4	2	1	0	-
Audiologists	20	0	0	6	3	4	4	3	-
Occupational therapists	111	1	3	36	28	26	14	3	40.8
Physical therapists	244	0	5	76	71	57	27	8	41.1
Radiation therapists	17	0	0	4	2	6	5	0	-
Recreational therapists	10	0	0	4	2	2	1	1	-
Respiratory therapists	112	0	1	26	31	25	24	4	43.4
Speech-language pathologists	137	0	2	43	42	25	21	4	41.0
Exercise physiologists	5	0	1	1	1	0	2	0	-
Therapists, all other	186	0	10	59	51	33	21	12	40.2
Veterinarians	81	0	1	14	23	17	20	6	47.3
Registered nurses	2,888	2	121	733	687	686	535	124	43.7
Nurse anesthetists	30	0	0	6	12	9	3	0	-
Nurse midwives	4	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	-
Nurse practitioners	128	0	0	31	26	31	32	7	46.6
Health diagnosing and treating practitioners, all other	24	0	1	4	4	7	5	3	-
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians	293	1	18	76	66	60	57	15	43.5
Dental hygienists	175	0	8	56	47	37	25	3	40.8
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians	331	0	16	88	84	72	64	8	42.8
Emergency medical technicians and paramedics	232	3	37	86	55	33	14	3	32.4
Health practitioner support technologists and technicians	583	13	87	200	120	92	59	11	35.1
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses	641	5	63	140	141	138	126	28	43.3
Medical records and health information technicians	138	0	5	27	30	39	32	6	46.5
Opticians, dispensing	46	0	2	11	7	10	11	4	-
Miscellaneous health technologists and technicians	123	1	11	27	25	35	20	5	45.0
Other healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	108	0	5	32	30	19	19	3	41.1

Service occupations	25,854	1,881	3,960	5,677	4,830	4,872	3,423	1,212	38.1
Healthcare support occupations	3,461	83	475	854	716	708	487	138	39.7
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides	1,980	51	267	435	370	445	303	107	41.3
Occupational therapy assistants and aides	17	0	1	3	6	4	3	0	-
Physical therapist assistants and aides	70	0	9	22	15	15	9	0	38.5
Massage therapists	172	1	12	41	46	40	26	7	42.4
Dental assistants	273	6	45	78	67	47	24	5	35.9
Medical assistants	508	7	63	173	129	78	50	8	36.5
Medical transcriptionists	58	1	4	6	12	15	17	4	49.8
Pharmacy aides	45	2	10	17	7	5	3	1	-
Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers	41	5	13	9	6	4	4	0	-
Phlebotomists	118	2	9	33	32	21	18	2	39.3
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations, including medical equipment preparers	179	8	41	37	25	33	30	4	37.4
Protective service occupations	3,140	92	264	743	742	719	416	163	41.1
First-line supervisors of correctional officers	49	0	0	9	15	16	8	1	-
First-line supervisors of police and detectives	126	0	0	5	39	54	24	4	47.2
First-line supervisors of fire fighting and prevention workers	58	0	0	6	17	26	10	0	47.8
First-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other	91	0	4	20	20	23	17	6	46.7
Firefighters	300	3	14	91	98	68	22	4	39.6
Fire inspectors	13	0	0	5	2	2	3	1	-
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers	395	4	39	96	93	103	50	11	40.6
Detectives and criminal investigators	164	1	4	33	54	40	28	3	42.9
Fish and game wardens	3	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	-
Parking enforcement workers	10	0	0	1	1	6	2	1	-
Police and sheriff's patrol officers	680	2	32	198	204	178	49	17	40.1
Transit and railroad police	3	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	-
Animal control workers	9	0	2	2	1	1	2	1	-
Private detectives and investigators	98	0	3	25	27	21	16	5	43.1
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers	899	12	122	228	151	149	156	81	41.2
Crossing guards	66	0	6	6	8	11	18	17	54.9
Transportation security screeners	33	1	1	10	9	6	4	3	-
Lifeguards and other recreational, and all other protective service workers	141	68	37	8	2	10	7	7	21.6
Food preparation and serving related occupations	8,112	1,240	1,934	1,872	1,191	1,023	634	219	29.5
Chefs and head cooks	430	5	54	124	96	97	47	7	38.3
First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers	545	25	106	139	110	95	53	17	35.4
Cooks	1,992	229	330	504	348	326	198	56	34.3
Food preparation workers	885	167	243	178	107	96	61	33	27.1
Bartenders	416	5	79	161	83	42	33	12	32.3
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food	428	92	116	76	41	45	38	20	26.4
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop	254	119	75	26	14	13	5	2	21.4
Waiters and waitresses	2,054	300	679	492	275	178	102	29	26.6
Food servers, nonrestaurant	185	22	31	34	24	41	25	8	36.0
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers	375	92	75	60	48	49	36	15	28.6
Dishwashers	246	60	51	43	31	30	25	7	28.1
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop	297	124	93	34	13	12	9	13	21.8
Food preparation and serving related workers, all other	6	2	1	1	0	0	2	0	-
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations	5,803	198	506	1,081	1,192	1,401	1,089	336	44.3
First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers	282	4	6	42	62	92	61	15	47.5
First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers	210	2	7	40	55	58	43	6	44.8
Janitors and building cleaners	2,328	92	213	377	408	561	519	160	46.4
Maids and housekeeping cleaners	1,514	27	99	282	360	404	258	85	44.8
Pest control workers	80	1	8	19	14	20	16	2	42.9
Grounds maintenance workers	1,389	73	173	321	293	266	193	70	39.8
Personal care and service occupations	5,337	267	781	1,127	989	1,022	796	355	40.0
First-line supervisors of gaming workers	151	1	14	39	43	22	24	8	41.0
First-line supervisors of personal service workers	202	0	10	40	49	59	31	13	44.6
Animal trainers	41	0	7	4	6	9	12	2	-
Nonfarm animal caretakers	201	17	47	50	24	36	21	7	31.6
Gaming services workers	99	3	10	22	25	18	16	5	40.7
Motion picture projectionists	4	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	-
Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers	54	16	18	5	0	3	5	7	22.7
Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers	189	38	53	35	14	16	14	19	26.4
Embalmers and funeral attendants	13	0	1	2	1	1	4	3	-
Morticians, undertakers, and funeral directors	29	0	1	8	3	6	4	6	-
Barbers	110	0	6	29	32	19	12	11	42.3
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists	760	8	93	193	154	154	102	55	40.6
Miscellaneous personal appearance workers	296	3	28	81	86	63	27	7	39.0
Baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges	85	2	11	20	12	22	12	6	41.9
Tour and travel guides	54	6	15	7	9	5	7	7	32.9
Childcare workers	1,218	107	216	251	183	209	195	56	37.4
Personal care aides	1,254	24	148	221	220	290	238	114	45.1
Recreation and fitness workers	404	29	71	79	91	71	51	12	37.1
Residential advisors	43	4	13	9	6	3	5	3	-
Personal care and service workers, all other	131	7	21	28	31	16	16	13	38.0

Sales and office occupations	33,416	1,572	4,066	6,897	6,092	7,115	5,650	2,023	41.8
Sales and related occupations	15,646	1,056	2,171	3,220	2,698	3,102	2,364	1,035	40.2
First-line supervisors of retail sales workers	3,285	26	288	766	708	780	525	192	43.0
First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers	1,200	2	39	191	298	332	243	95	47.4
Cashiers	3,242	681	855	566	334	374	304	129	27.0
Counter and rental clerks	113	8	23	29	20	16	15	3	34.7
Parts salespersons	93	3	9	28	9	18	21	5	41.9
Retail salespersons	3,316	293	668	713	421	526	476	217	35.7
Advertising sales agents	227	2	24	71	42	47	32	9	39.4
Insurance sales agents	562	0	28	117	113	132	122	50	46.1
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents	256	0	11	81	64	61	27	12	41.1
Travel agents	82	0	3	10	15	25	17	11	50.9
Sales representatives, services, all other	480	3	39	132	105	104	74	22	41.4
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing	1,309	12	83	276	274	343	232	89	44.9
Models, demonstrators, and product promoters	66	6	9	10	9	10	8	14	44.5
Real estate brokers and sales agents	868	3	33	109	174	223	190	138	50.7
Sales engineers	43	0	2	7	11	12	9	2	-
Telemarketers	75	4	16	19	15	10	6	4	34.7
Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers	175	6	14	43	36	39	20	18	42.8
Sales and related workers, all other	253	8	28	52	48	50	42	26	43.1
Office and administrative support occupations	17,771	517	1,895	3,677	3,394	4,013	3,286	989	43.1
First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers	1,351	3	46	255	347	362	272	64	45.6
Switchboard operators, including answering service	19	0	4	5	3	1	5	2	-
Telephone operators	33	0	8	4	8	8	3	2	-
Communications equipment operators, all other	9	0	1	3	2	0	2	1	-
Bill and account collectors	165	2	23	39	42	29	27	4	40.1
Billing and posting clerks	507	3	29	104	117	139	91	24	44.9
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks	1,231	8	54	172	240	333	291	135	49.6
Gaming cage workers	14	0	1	4	5	1	2	0	-
Payroll and timekeeping clerks	146	0	7	28	30	42	33	5	46.3
Procurement clerks	31	0	3	5	6	8	7	0	-
Tellers	361	10	96	105	53	47	37	14	31.0
Financial clerks, all other	65	0	5	16	13	20	9	3	41.7
Brokerage clerks	5	0	0	2	1	1	1	0	-
Correspondence clerks	6	1	1	2	0	1	1	0	-
Court, municipal, and license clerks	69	1	2	9	14	23	13	7	49.1
Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks	44	0	5	17	5	11	3	2	-
Customer service representatives	2,086	122	341	531	373	377	277	66	36.4
Eligibility interviewers, government programs	70	1	0	14	22	16	15	2	45.3
File clerks	226	11	29	40	40	51	35	20	42.9
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks	120	7	31	34	20	14	10	4	30.0
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan	160	1	11	48	30	34	21	13	41.2
Library assistants, clerical	98	7	16	17	14	16	16	12	40.2
Loan interviewers and clerks	143	1	15	46	32	27	16	6	39.2
New accounts clerks	27	1	1	9	7	7	3	1	-
Order clerks	104	3	17	35	15	17	14	4	33.8
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping	101	0	7	25	21	28	15	4	42.8
Receptionists and information clerks	1,301	64	232	327	195	212	200	72	37.0
Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks	94	1	13	20	14	22	21	3	42.4
Information and record clerks, all other	95	1	4	27	16	21	17	9	43.9
Cargo and freight agents	23	0	3	5	5	4	6	0	-
Couriers and messengers	233	6	18	41	53	49	52	14	45.5
Dispatchers	267	6	23	71	64	58	39	6	40.7
Meter readers, utilities	23	3	0	3	6	5	5	2	-
Postal service clerks	117	1	8	9	16	34	46	3	52.3
Postal service mail carriers	311	1	10	35	55	109	85	16	51.3
Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators	61	1	5	5	10	15	23	1	50.7
Production, planning, and expediting clerks	244	1	15	42	58	65	53	10	45.9
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks	606	13	69	151	114	130	102	29	41.5
Stock clerks and order fillers	1,483	123	312	306	230	253	188	71	34.8
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping	75	1	7	21	13	18	14	2	41.8
Secretaries and administrative assistants	2,995	34	160	504	576	805	727	190	48.0
Computer operators	87	1	4	21	17	26	14	5	46.3
Data entry keyers	292	7	30	71	53	67	50	15	41.4
Word processors and typists	101	2	11	20	24	20	17	7	43.8
Desktop publishers	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	-
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks	288	3	22	62	72	68	50	12	43.7
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service	79	2	13	15	13	15	18	3	42.2
Office clerks, general	1,230	51	140	225	214	276	238	86	44.3
Office machine operators, except computer	39	2	4	9	4	11	7	2	-
Proofreaders and copy markers	10	0	1	1	0	3	4	1	-
Statistical assistants	23	0	4	4	5	6	4	1	-
Office and administrative support workers, all other	497	13	36	113	106	109	94	27	43.3

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	13,537	283	1,158	3,308	3,100	3,172	2,063	453	41.7
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	1,022	77	113	246	201	192	141	50	39.1
First-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers	44	0	2	6	12	8	10	7	-
Agricultural inspectors	17	0	0	4	2	5	4	1	-
Animal breeders	6	0	1	1	1	2	0	1	-
Graders and sorters, agricultural products	93	2	10	26	24	15	14	2	39.4
Miscellaneous agricultural workers	739	71	94	185	138	130	90	31	37.2
Fishers and related fishing workers	32	2	2	5	4	11	7	2	-
Hunters and trappers	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	-
Forest and conservation workers	18	0	1	3	6	1	5	1	-
Logging workers	71	2	4	15	14	20	11	5	44.2
Construction and extraction occupations	7,637	139	649	1,941	1,824	1,773	1,084	226	41.2
First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers	696	1	19	132	157	204	152	30	46.9
Boilermakers	17	0	3	4	4	4	1	0	-
Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons	142	3	9	45	37	24	18	6	39.4
Carpenters	1,282	21	109	311	313	302	185	40	41.4
Carpet, floor, and tile installers and finishers	170	2	11	48	41	39	26	3	42.5
Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers	58	1	4	14	18	16	2	3	40.8
Construction laborers	1,686	57	187	469	389	347	191	46	38.9
Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators	19	0	1	6	3	6	3	0	-
Pile-driver operators	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	-
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators	336	2	22	75	74	82	68	13	44.3
Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers	162	1	9	47	59	31	13	2	39.8
Electricians	769	9	62	187	198	199	94	20	41.2
Glaziers	35	0	1	9	10	8	5	2	-
Insulation workers	44	0	2	16	10	9	6	0	-
Painters, construction and maintenance	561	8	47	131	144	143	72	16	41.8
Paperhangers	4	0	1	0	0	2	1	0	-
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters	564	9	40	139	141	124	93	19	42.3
Plasterers and stucco masons	31	1	1	11	7	7	5	0	-
Reinforcing iron and rebar workers	9	0	2	5	1	1	0	0	-
Roofers	206	6	21	79	50	33	17	1	36.1
Sheet metal workers	110	1	10	21	24	29	22	3	44.1
Structural iron and steel workers	52	1	5	15	9	14	8	1	41.2
Solar photovoltaic installers	14	0	2	6	2	3	1	0	-
Helpers, construction trades	57	6	16	13	10	6	5	1	29.6
Construction and building inspectors	78	0	1	7	17	22	24	6	51.4
Elevator installers and repairers	22	0	0	9	4	4	3	1	-
Fence erectors	33	1	3	11	8	8	2	1	-
Hazardous materials removal workers	23	0	4	3	5	7	2	2	-
Highway maintenance workers	123	1	6	19	23	39	28	6	47.5
Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators	17	0	1	4	4	2	4	1	-
Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners	14	0	1	4	4	4	1	0	-
Miscellaneous construction and related workers	33	1	4	12	6	6	4	2	-
Derrick, rotary drill, and service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining	54	1	8	23	10	8	5	0	33.1
Earth drillers, except oil and gas	29	1	2	8	8	8	3	0	-
Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters	5	0	0	1	0	2	1	0	-
Mining machine operators	68	1	11	17	13	14	10	0	39.0
Roof bolters, mining	3	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	-
Roustabouts, oil and gas	11	2	2	4	1	2	0	0	-
Helpers--extraction workers	7	0	2	1	2	2	0	0	-
Other extraction workers	92	3	19	29	19	14	7	2	32.2
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	4,879	66	396	1,122	1,075	1,206	838	176	43.0
First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers	284	0	3	40	69	93	67	11	48.5
Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers	265	5	22	68	64	57	44	5	41.7
Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers	134	1	12	29	33	30	27	3	43.5
Avionics technicians	8	0	0	2	0	3	2	0	-
Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers	35	0	4	8	8	7	6	2	-
Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment	5	0	1	1	1	1	1	1	-
Electrical and electronics repairers, industrial and utility	15	0	0	4	2	6	2	0	-
Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles	17	0	0	5	4	4	4	0	-
Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers	34	0	2	13	10	5	3	1	-
Security and fire alarm systems installers	58	0	3	20	10	15	8	1	40.7
Aircraft mechanics and service technicians	127	0	6	35	22	37	21	5	45.4
Automotive body and related repairers	133	3	14	30	26	38	17	5	41.7
Automotive glass installers and repairers	21	1	2	6	5	3	2	1	-
Automotive service technicians and mechanics	883	17	96	222	214	198	111	25	40.0
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists	323	4	32	78	66	86	44	13	42.0
Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics	211	1	23	54	40	51	30	12	42.0
Small engine mechanics	50	2	4	19	8	9	6	2	37.9
Miscellaneous vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers	93	6	23	21	19	13	9	2	32.8
Control and valve installers and repairers	19	0	2	5	4	4	4	0	-
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers	378	5	32	93	99	74	64	11	41.7
Home appliance repairers	51	0	2	10	9	16	10	4	49.6
Industrial and refractory machinery mechanics	454	3	23	84	96	129	103	16	46.6
Maintenance and repair workers, general	471	5	26	83	77	143	117	20	48.3
Maintenance workers, machinery	37	1	4	2	8	9	7	4	-
Millwrights	48	0	2	8	9	11	13	4	-
Electrical power-line installers and repairers	115	1	6	41	28	25	11	3	40.4
Telecommunications line installers and repairers	184	2	13	55	56	37	20	1	38.9
Precision instrument and equipment repairers	85	0	3	16	21	20	18	7	45.6
Wind turbine service technicians	4	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	-
Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers	43	0	4	5	10	7	14	3	-
Commercial divers	3	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	-
Locksmiths and safe repairers	30	1	0	6	4	6	10	3	-
Manufactured building and mobile home installers	4	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	-
Riggers	13	0	2	5	3	2	1	0	-
Signal and track switch repairers	7	0	0	3	2	0	0	0	-
Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers	14	1	5	2	3	2	0	0	-
Other installation, maintenance, and repair workers	224	4	20	46	44	60	41	9	44.5

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	17,448	490	1,657	3,505	3,667	4,192	3,095	842	43.1
Production occupations	8,438	152	780	1,806	1,826	2,043	1,513	319	42.9
First-line supervisors of production and operating workers	789	4	24	146	194	241	158	22	45.8
Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers	15	0	2	1	1	4	5	2	-
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers	164	4	10	31	34	48	30	7	44.1
Engine and other machine assemblers	10	0	0	3	1	2	3	0	-
Structural metal fabricators and fitters	24	0	3	6	7	5	3	0	-
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators	1,002	24	123	238	204	204	176	33	40.8
Bakers	224	8	36	58	32	52	27	11	37.4
Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers	331	10	50	89	61	69	42	11	38.4
Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders	10	0	2	2	3	2	1	0	-
Food batchmakers	95	3	18	19	20	22	11	3	38.9
Food cooking machine operators and tenders	16	1	4	3	3	4	2	0	-
Food processing workers, all other	128	1	10	30	30	33	20	4	42.5
Computer control programmers and operators	71	2	5	19	25	12	9	1	38.9
Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	14	0	2	1	5	4	2	0	-
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	5	0	0	1	1	1	1	1	-
Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	10	0	0	3	1	3	3	0	-
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	85	1	11	15	17	22	17	2	44.0
Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	45	1	5	6	7	14	9	3	-
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	9	0	4	2	1	2	0	0	-
Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	5	0	0	2	0	2	0	1	-
Machinists	391	6	33	66	90	99	83	13	44.7
Metal furnace operators, tenders, pourers, and casters	27	0	5	6	6	5	4	0	-
Model makers and patternmakers, metal and plastic	5	0	1	1	1	2	1	0	-
Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	38	1	2	11	10	5	10	1	-
Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	4	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	-
Tool and die makers	67	0	1	8	18	15	20	5	49.4
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers	615	14	67	173	142	135	73	13	39.3
Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	4	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	-
Layout workers, metal and plastic	9	1	1	3	1	0	3	0	-
Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	29	0	1	4	4	16	4	1	-
Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners	10	0	1	1	4	2	2	1	-
Metal workers and plastic workers, all other	342	6	29	65	68	90	73	10	44.5
Prepress technicians and workers	25	0	2	5	3	7	4	3	-
Printing press operators	187	1	18	41	40	52	27	7	41.9
Print binding and finishing workers	21	0	1	1	4	5	8	2	-
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers	156	4	7	33	29	36	35	12	47.5
Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials	48	0	1	16	10	12	5	3	-
Sewing machine operators	158	2	6	18	27	44	48	13	50.8
Shoe and leather workers and repairers	4	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	-
Shoe machine operators and tenders	3	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	-
Tailors, dressmakers, and sewers	92	1	1	10	15	27	28	9	53.0
Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders	3	0	0	1	0	1	1	0	-
Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders	6	0	0	2	1	0	2	0	-
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders	12	0	1	2	2	3	2	2	-
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders	12	0	1	1	7	2	0	1	-
Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Fabric and apparel patternmakers	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	-
Upholsterers	40	1	4	4	4	17	7	5	-
Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other	14	1	1	1	5	2	4	0	-
Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters	51	2	2	10	12	14	8	2	44.7
Furniture finishers	7	1	0	2	0	3	1	0	-
Model makers and patternmakers, wood	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	-
Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood	32	1	2	7	7	4	6	4	-
Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing	19	1	1	5	6	5	1	0	-
Woodworkers, all other	28	0	2	2	4	9	7	4	-
Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers	45	0	1	14	10	10	10	1	-
Stationary engineers and boiler operators	96	0	3	12	21	30	27	4	49.9
Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators	72	0	2	11	14	24	19	2	50.3
Miscellaneous plant and system operators	41	0	2	13	10	5	11	0	-
Chemical processing machine setters, operators, and tenders	63	0	4	18	15	17	7	1	41.1
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers	69	1	8	15	15	17	12	1	42.2
Cutting workers	60	2	9	7	17	15	9	2	42.6
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders	40	1	5	6	13	7	7	1	-
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders	9	0	0	4	1	2	1	0	-
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers	752	6	63	181	153	171	146	31	43.1
Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers	44	0	2	7	8	12	13	2	-
Medical, dental, and ophthalmic laboratory technicians	85	1	8	15	22	14	20	6	45.1
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	259	6	31	47	64	62	41	8	40.7
Painting workers	156	4	15	38	40	33	23	3	40.1
Photographic process workers and processing machine operators	27	0	6	8	4	5	4	0	-
Semiconductor processors	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	-
Adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders	6	0	1	0	2	2	0	0	-
Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders	6	0	1	0	3	1	1	0	-
Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders	4	0	0	3	1	0	0	0	-
Etchers and engravers	13	0	0	1	1	5	4	0	-
Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic	31	0	2	6	7	7	7	2	-
Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders	31	0	0	9	9	6	5	2	-
Tire builders	12	0	1	2	6	1	1	0	-
Helpers--production workers	54	5	8	17	8	7	8	1	30.9
Production workers, all other	947	21	106	198	215	223	146	40	41.6
Transportation and material moving occupations	9,010	337	877	1,700	1,841	2,149	1,582	523	43.3
Supervisors of transportation and material moving workers	199	1	10	45	39	61	36	8	44.9
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers	133	0	3	17	39	41	28	6	47.1
Air traffic controllers and airfield operations specialists	31	0	0	10	5	11	4	1	-
Flight attendants	92	0	6	10	19	33	21	3	46.8
Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians	19	0	1	5	2	5	4	2	-
Bus drivers	584	1	11	56	98	159	165	95	53.0
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers	3,406	53	193	559	772	933	684	211	46.1
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs	383	0	10	69	78	91	88	47	49.0
Motor vehicle operators, all other	61	0	4	5	8	15	8	21	55.9
Locomotive engineers and operators	55	0	2	7	22	13	11	1	44.7
Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators	9	0	0	1	2	3	4	0	-
Railroad conductors and yardmasters	46	0	3	13	12	13	5	1	-
Subway, streetcar, and other rail transportation workers	19	0	2	5	6	3	2	2	-
Sailors and marine oilers	27	2	9	4	4	3	4	1	-
Ship and boat captains and operators	41	0	2	7	10	14	7	2	-
Ship engineers	7	0	0	1	3	2	2	0	-
Bridge and lock tenders	6	0	0	0	0	1	4	0	-
Parking lot attendants	78	4	24	17	9	10	11	3	31.6
Automotive and watercraft service attendants	97	5	30	24	18	9	10	1	30.4
Transportation inspectors	47	0	4	7	13	13	9	3	-
Transportation attendants, except flight attendants	27	0	4	4	3	5	7	4	-
Other transportation workers	25	0	4	6	6	6	2	2	-
Conveyor operators and tenders	6	0	1	0	1	1	2	0	-
Crane and tower operators	74	0	3	19	19	18	13	2	44.1
Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators	44	1	5	8	6	13	7	4	-
Hoist and winch operators	7	0	2	1	1	2	1	0	-
Industrial truck and tractor operators	564	6	52	143	130	140	80	12	41.4
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment	375	50	83	85	58	53	35	12	30.7
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	1,867	154	324	430	335	330	238	55	36.2
Machine feeders and offbearers	17	0	3	3	5	1	4	0	-
Packers and packagers, hand	505	57	72	100	94	110	57	16	37.2
Pumping station operators	27	0	2	9	1	8	5	1	-
Refuse and recyclable material collectors	84	2	8	20	17	21	10	5	41.7
Mine shuttle car operators	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-
Tank car, truck, and ship loaders	6	0	0	3	0	2	1	0	-
Material moving workers, all other	41	1	2	8	8	8	14	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: February 12, 2015