2019 Annual Averages ‐ 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	2019
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	157,538	5,150	14,172	35,807	33,127	32,042	26,893	10,347	42.3

Management, professional, and related occupations	64,218	428	3,402	15,126	15,133	14,103	11,360	4,665	43.8
Management, business, and financial operations occupations	26,981	82	969	5,529	6,330	6,469	5,394	2,208	45.9
Management occupations	18,985	62	536	3,452	4,524	4,731	4,024	1,655	47.0
Chief executives	1,602	2	5	121	329	461	465	219	52.7
General and operations managers	1,058	0	19	258	282	257	196	46	44.2
Legislators	19	0	0	3	2	1	5	7	-
Advertising and promotions managers	55	0	9	13	12	10	8	3	40.2
Marketing and sales managers	1,184	4	69	283	313	289	180	45	42.5
Public relations and fundraising managers	73	0	2	19	12	17	19	4	44.8
Administrative services managers	184	1	3	19	41	46	56	18	51.4
Computer and information systems managers	654	1	6	115	197	198	116	23	45.3
Financial managers	1,194	1	30	264	332	299	210	58	44.0
Compensation and benefits managers	24	0	2	1	6	10	3	2	-
Human resources managers	321	1	6	64	99	77	64	11	44.3
Training and development managers	46	2	1	9	17	6	9	2	-
Industrial production managers	274	0	3	51	77	68	65	11	45.4
Purchasing managers	227	0	5	44	56	67	46	9	46.4
Transportation, storage, and distribution managers	281	0	11	55	59	77	69	10	47.2
Farmers, ranchers, and other agricultural managers	962	3	23	114	132	145	251	296	56.1
Construction managers	994	1	27	184	259	233	214	77	46.5
Education administrators	958	4	21	140	255	307	178	52	46.4
Architectural and engineering managers	154	0	1	21	41	45	41	5	47.9
Food service managers	1,249	24	131	309	283	264	176	61	41.0
Funeral service managers	13	0	0	0	2	1	6	4	-
Gaming managers	19	0	2	1	4	6	3	2	-
Lodging managers	162	1	8	37	36	32	31	18	45.9
Medical and health services managers	677	1	8	135	177	164	142	50	46.1
Natural sciences managers	15	0	0	1	3	8	0	1	-
Postmasters and mail superintendents	30	0	0	3	7	10	9	2	-
Property, real estate, and community association managers	780	1	21	152	140	162	169	134	49.6
Social and community service managers	470	3	17	96	109	107	97	41	46.5
Emergency management directors	7	0	0	1	0	4	1	0	-
Managers, all other	5,299	12	105	939	1,243	1,360	1,196	444	47.8
Business and financial operations occupations	7,996	19	433	2,076	1,806	1,738	1,370	554	43.3
Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes	47	1	3	11	12	10	3	7	-
Buyers and purchasing agents, farm products	16	0	1	4	6	1	1	3	-
Wholesale and retail buyers, except farm products	226	1	20	56	41	38	50	20	44.3
Purchasing agents, except wholesale, retail, and farm products	279	0	16	57	56	73	53	23	46.0
Claims adjusters, appraisers, examiners, and investigators	318	0	11	64	81	88	58	16	45.2
Compliance officers	298	0	10	56	84	85	50	13	44.3
Cost estimators	127	0	2	27	25	26	31	15	48.0
Human resources workers	770	2	43	235	195	155	105	35	40.7
Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists	51	1	2	10	11	15	8	4	45.8
Training and development specialists	125	2	2	26	29	28	30	8	46.6
Logisticians	154	0	12	45	33	41	20	3	41.9
Management analysts	950	1	31	241	191	203	181	102	45.7
Meeting, convention, and event planners	146	1	22	47	27	28	15	6	36.6
Fundraisers	93	0	5	29	23	17	11	8	40.6
Market research analysts and marketing specialists	369	1	41	128	86	68	32	12	37.5
Business operations specialists, all other	269	1	19	69	62	49	55	14	42.8
Accountants and auditors	1,964	5	91	503	413	429	364	160	44.4
Appraisers and assessors of real estate	84	1	0	9	18	18	28	10	51.4
Budget analysts	51	0	1	19	10	11	9	1	41.3
Credit analysts	28	0	5	8	8	4	3	0	-
Financial analysts	345	1	27	119	94	67	29	7	38.2
Personal financial advisors	551	0	31	140	133	112	93	41	43.4
Insurance underwriters	105	1	8	23	21	31	18	3	44.5
Financial examiners	21	0	0	3	7	2	10	0	-
Credit counselors and loan officers	403	1	20	104	103	88	70	17	42.2
Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents	53	0	0	12	11	12	14	3	47.8
Tax preparers	97	0	7	14	12	20	22	23	53.4
Financial specialists, all other	57	0	3	15	15	16	7	1	41.6
Professional and related occupations	37,237	346	2,433	9,598	8,803	7,634	5,966	2,457	42.4
Computer and mathematical occupations	5,352	26	354	1,593	1,414	1,092	700	173	40.5
Computer and information research scientists	24	0	4	6	7	4	1	1	-
Computer systems analysts	663	1	59	191	181	121	94	16	39.9
Information security analysts	125	1	12	46	31	18	15	2	38.1
Computer programmers	454	2	19	117	105	116	72	24	43.5
Software developers, applications and systems software	1,815	2	111	640	496	313	195	56	39.2
Web developers	193	4	15	56	60	36	16	7	38.9
Computer support specialists	547	5	36	158	145	119	68	15	40.6
Database administrators	106	0	5	21	29	27	18	7	44.5
Network and computer systems administrators	199	0	8	48	65	50	25	4	42.0
Computer network architects	106	0	1	15	32	37	19	3	45.4
Computer occupations, all other	808	11	61	205	190	188	121	33	41.4
Actuaries	33	0	1	7	7	10	7	0	-
Mathematicians	3	0	1	0	1	1	0	0	-
Operations research analysts	152	0	8	42	34	35	30	4	43.3
Statisticians	101	0	9	35	26	14	15	2	38.9
Miscellaneous mathematical science occupations	22	0	5	6	5	4	4	0	-
Architecture and engineering occupations	3,305	13	209	871	718	659	663	173	43.3
Architects, except naval	208	0	3	42	53	43	46	21	46.2
Surveyors, cartographers, and photogrammetrists	48	0	1	9	9	10	13	5	-
Aerospace engineers	134	0	4	36	23	22	39	10	48.1
Agricultural engineers	6	0	0	3	0	0	2	0	-
Biomedical engineers	25	0	4	8	6	1	5	1	-
Chemical engineers	87	0	6	28	14	17	15	6	42.8
Civil engineers	475	0	37	134	109	75	90	29	41.5
Computer hardware engineers	77	0	12	17	22	11	13	1	39.9
Electrical and electronics engineers	285	0	13	70	69	54	61	18	44.2
Environmental engineers	25	0	0	8	5	6	3	2	-
Industrial engineers, including health and safety	245	1	11	64	56	53	49	11	43.4
Marine engineers and naval architects	12	0	0	4	3	3	2	0	-
Materials engineers	44	0	1	16	7	10	8	3	-
Mechanical engineers	351	4	22	113	74	73	54	12	40.8
Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers	8	0	0	2	1	2	3	0	-
Nuclear engineers	8	0	0	3	1	1	2	2	-
Petroleum engineers	24	0	1	7	9	4	2	1	-
Engineers, all other	582	1	32	150	128	118	125	27	43.6
Drafters	113	0	12	23	24	32	17	4	44.0
Engineering technicians, except drafters	496	5	41	120	97	111	106	15	43.7
Surveying and mapping technicians	53	1	7	13	6	13	8	5	44.6
Life, physical, and social science occupations	1,485	9	137	427	320	262	231	99	41.0
Agricultural and food scientists	37	0	8	13	6	5	6	1	-
Biological scientists	104	0	8	32	23	23	12	7	41.2
Conservation scientists and foresters	20	0	1	3	8	3	4	1	-
Medical scientists	170	0	12	59	43	24	25	7	38.8
Life scientists, all other	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	-
Astronomers and physicists	17	0	0	4	4	3	6	1	-
Atmospheric and space scientists	10	0	0	2	2	2	4	0	-
Chemists and materials scientists	97	0	7	35	16	16	17	5	40.9
Environmental scientists and geoscientists	119	1	10	32	31	18	18	10	41.1
Physical scientists, all other	298	0	23	99	71	50	45	10	39.6
Economists	35	0	0	9	8	6	10	2	-
Survey researchers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Psychologists	234	0	4	43	49	61	37	41	48.3
Sociologists	2	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	-
Urban and regional planners	25	0	3	8	6	5	2	1	-
Miscellaneous social scientists and related workers	39	0	2	11	8	8	5	5	-
Agricultural and food science technicians	20	0	5	4	1	3	4	3	-
Biological technicians	23	0	3	8	6	3	4	0	-
Chemical technicians	56	1	3	17	15	11	9	1	40.0
Geological and petroleum technicians	20	0	1	3	6	8	0	1	-
Nuclear technicians	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	-
Social science research assistants	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	-
Miscellaneous life, physical, and social science technicians	152	6	44	45	16	13	22	6	30.6
Community and social service occupations	2,717	20	168	648	596	559	479	247	44.0
Counselors	927	13	67	232	214	182	142	78	42.3
Social workers	823	2	38	226	190	187	140	40	43.1
Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists	97	0	2	26	27	31	10	1	41.8
Social and human service assistants	238	2	30	63	46	39	45	13	40.9
Miscellaneous community and social service specialists, including health educators and community health workers	78	0	4	13	21	21	15	4	44.5
Clergy	413	0	11	60	73	80	103	86	52.3
Directors, religious activities and education	72	1	5	20	13	11	12	10	43.6
Religious workers, all other	69	2	9	8	12	9	13	15	47.2
Legal occupations	1,955	4	54	406	438	432	368	251	46.8
Lawyers	1,240	2	5	233	310	279	224	188	47.5
Judicial law clerks	7	0	0	4	0	2	0	0	-
Judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers	70	0	0	3	10	21	22	15	55.7
Paralegals and legal assistants	444	2	37	115	83	84	92	30	43.4
Miscellaneous legal support workers	193	0	12	51	36	46	30	18	44.9
Education, training, and library occupations	9,455	126	689	2,157	2,254	2,053	1,511	664	42.8
Postsecondary teachers	1,386	6	103	284	312	258	251	172	45.0
Preschool and kindergarten teachers	655	10	80	175	157	131	79	23	39.4
Elementary and middle school teachers	3,604	6	171	887	938	877	539	185	42.7
Secondary school teachers	1,015	4	49	261	280	225	147	50	42.2
Special education teachers	331	1	14	74	84	86	58	15	44.0
Other teachers and instructors	1,017	63	123	205	187	169	158	112	41.5
Archivists, curators, and museum technicians	48	1	5	10	11	10	5	8	-
Librarians	179	0	9	33	37	34	38	26	47.7
Library technicians	33	7	6	2	5	5	6	1	-
Teacher assistants	999	25	115	186	202	217	197	57	42.9
Other education, training, and library workers	189	2	15	41	40	42	34	16	44.7
Arts, design, entertainment, sports, and media occupations	3,285	100	290	910	690	586	437	272	40.6
Artists and related workers	248	4	11	64	51	39	45	34	44.2
Designers	983	10	80	299	226	169	133	66	40.2
Actors	40	2	3	11	9	7	6	2	-
Producers and directors	186	0	5	64	44	47	21	5	40.4
Athletes, coaches, umpires, and related workers	345	65	53	84	50	43	23	26	30.6
Dancers and choreographers	23	1	6	9	2	1	1	2	-
Musicians, singers, and related workers	202	4	17	42	35	36	29	41	46.8
Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other	50	1	3	21	8	6	6	5	39.3
Announcers	58	1	3	16	14	14	8	3	42.6
News analysts, reporters and correspondents	93	0	10	32	15	18	14	4	38.2
Public relations specialists	137	1	19	33	33	30	14	6	39.4
Editors	147	1	13	29	31	33	29	10	45.3
Technical writers	61	0	2	16	10	14	13	7	45.7
Writers and authors	225	0	15	58	49	40	33	29	44.0
Miscellaneous media and communication workers	118	1	4	28	28	28	20	8	44.4
Broadcast and sound engineering technicians and radio operators	119	5	16	32	32	21	10	4	37.6
Photographers	188	2	20	52	39	32	29	14	41.3
Television, video, and motion picture camera operators and editors	60	2	9	19	14	7	4	5	34.3
Media and communication equipment workers, all other	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	9,684	48	532	2,586	2,373	1,990	1,576	579	42.3
Chiropractors	61	0	1	11	17	15	14	4	45.2
Dentists	162	0	0	32	35	41	30	23	48.2
Dietitians and nutritionists	128	3	4	33	20	34	23	11	45.3
Optometrists	43	0	1	16	10	8	4	5	-
Pharmacists	341	0	11	109	90	69	43	19	41.1
Physicians and surgeons	1,098	0	5	250	272	250	194	127	45.7
Physician assistants	131	0	2	56	35	27	9	2	38.0
Podiatrists	10	0	0	4	0	3	3	0	-
Audiologists	14	0	0	2	5	2	4	0	-
Occupational therapists	136	0	2	42	42	33	13	3	40.2
Physical therapists	304	0	5	84	95	74	37	10	41.6
Radiation therapists	16	0	2	8	2	3	0	1	-
Recreational therapists	10	0	2	2	1	2	2	1	-
Respiratory therapists	112	0	2	27	32	28	21	3	44.5
Speech-language pathologists	180	0	9	58	49	33	22	8	40.5
Exercise physiologists	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-
Therapists, all other	235	2	14	77	44	40	36	22	40.8
Veterinarians	104	0	1	21	33	21	21	7	44.9
Registered nurses	3,242	2	138	860	803	684	586	168	43.0
Nurse anesthetists	33	0	0	8	10	8	4	3	-
Nurse midwives	10	0	0	1	4	2	1	2	-
Nurse practitioners	225	0	0	51	71	50	38	16	44.3
Health diagnosing and treating practitioners, all other	35	0	0	8	8	7	5	7	-
Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians	323	4	29	75	77	64	58	16	42.4
Dental hygienists	208	0	10	67	39	44	41	7	42.3
Diagnostic related technologists and technicians	398	1	15	103	109	83	70	17	42.6
Emergency medical technicians and paramedics	206	1	33	81	44	27	14	5	33.0
Health practitioner support technologists and technicians	710	19	131	234	138	92	78	18	33.2
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses	687	10	62	150	161	144	117	43	42.6
Medical records and health information technicians	185	2	9	32	49	42	40	11	45.0
Opticians, dispensing	49	0	0	7	8	11	15	7	-
Miscellaneous health technologists and technicians	152	3	30	38	33	22	19	7	37.4
Other healthcare practitioners and technical occupations	133	0	12	36	36	26	18	6	39.8

Service occupations	26,978	2,126	3,815	6,091	4,847	4,705	3,855	1,539	38.2
Healthcare support occupations	3,758	104	521	1,019	705	648	571	189	38.7
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides	2,086	61	261	498	390	381	363	132	41.2
Occupational therapy assistants and aides	29	0	1	9	5	7	8	1	-
Physical therapist assistants and aides	101	0	20	22	13	25	18	2	41.3
Massage therapists	183	2	7	49	43	41	26	16	42.0
Dental assistants	284	6	54	82	65	42	30	5	34.0
Medical assistants	596	13	84	230	113	82	61	13	33.7
Medical transcriptionists	41	0	15	5	3	6	11	1	-
Pharmacy aides	49	1	9	19	6	9	3	2	-
Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers	59	4	23	18	7	3	3	1	26.6
Phlebotomists	124	2	18	36	26	25	17	1	37.6
Miscellaneous healthcare support occupations, including medical equipment preparers	206	16	29	53	35	28	32	14	37.3
Protective service occupations	3,128	96	256	835	707	657	410	166	40.8
First-line supervisors of correctional officers	44	0	2	9	12	12	7	2	-
First-line supervisors of police and detectives	83	0	0	12	26	33	11	1	44.7
First-line supervisors of fire fighting and prevention workers	42	0	0	3	19	14	5	1	-
First-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other	78	0	2	8	21	24	15	8	48.8
Firefighters	318	0	13	100	96	71	30	6	40.6
Fire inspectors	21	1	0	4	4	4	5	3	-
Bailiffs, correctional officers, and jailers	372	2	33	113	81	80	47	16	40.8
Detectives and criminal investigators	164	0	5	27	57	49	23	4	43.5
Fish and game wardens	4	0	1	1	2	1	0	0	-
Parking enforcement workers	4	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	-
Police and sheriff's patrol officers	716	1	44	229	190	175	56	21	39.9
Transit and railroad police	5	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	-
Animal control workers	10	0	0	4	2	1	1	0	-
Private detectives and investigators	97	0	3	28	19	25	16	6	43.8
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers	937	16	114	258	156	146	167	80	40.7
Crossing guards	52	1	3	10	4	5	16	13	53.4
Transportation security screeners	43	0	5	13	11	8	4	2	-
Lifeguards and other recreational, and all other protective service workers	139	75	30	12	6	8	5	3	21.6
Food preparation and serving related occupations	8,378	1,379	1,811	1,902	1,189	1,027	791	278	29.9
Chefs and head cooks	474	10	48	132	102	110	59	14	39.9
First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers	597	31	101	162	115	93	76	20	35.6
Cooks	2,031	228	322	481	360	313	247	81	35.0
Food preparation workers	1,079	230	242	217	132	124	89	44	28.2
Bartenders	464	12	83	170	97	61	30	10	32.7
Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food	372	96	84	69	46	33	34	11	26.3
Counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop	200	105	49	20	12	2	9	3	21.4
Waiters and waitresses	2,038	335	627	494	226	178	136	42	26.6
Food servers, nonrestaurant	191	39	34	38	20	17	30	13	30.1
Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers	338	87	66	43	32	48	40	22	28.5
Dishwashers	264	63	46	45	39	33	28	10	29.8
Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop	322	141	106	29	8	16	13	9	21.5
Food preparation and serving related workers, all other	7	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	-
Building and grounds cleaning and maintenance occupations	5,746	205	411	1,065	1,182	1,300	1,158	427	45.0
First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers	352	3	7	55	92	102	71	22	46.8
First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers	285	4	11	50	78	68	55	18	45.5
Janitors and building cleaners	2,265	92	176	378	378	503	535	202	47.5
Maids and housekeeping cleaners	1,475	26	77	235	348	402	293	94	46.0
Pest control workers	96	2	9	24	23	18	16	4	41.4
Grounds maintenance workers	1,273	77	130	323	262	208	188	85	39.8
Personal care and service occupations	5,968	343	816	1,271	1,063	1,072	924	479	40.2
First-line supervisors of gaming workers	211	6	14	54	46	41	29	21	41.8
First-line supervisors of personal service workers	213	2	11	38	49	58	43	12	46.5
Animal trainers	63	2	9	17	10	12	8	4	39.0
Nonfarm animal caretakers	296	31	68	63	46	30	43	17	32.0
Gaming services workers	93	7	7	24	20	12	15	9	39.7
Motion picture projectionists	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers	38	12	8	3	2	4	3	7	-
Miscellaneous entertainment attendants and related workers	210	46	55	34	20	9	25	22	25.6
Embalmers and funeral attendants	15	0	2	2	2	1	4	5	-
Morticians, undertakers, and funeral directors	26	0	3	2	6	4	7	4	-
Barbers	137	1	12	37	30	29	12	16	40.7
Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists	803	9	91	203	175	160	101	64	40.9
Miscellaneous personal appearance workers	409	6	33	102	104	98	44	22	40.8
Baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges	92	5	14	19	7	17	23	9	45.1
Tour and travel guides	61	5	12	10	12	3	11	7	38.7
Childcare workers	1,193	128	222	223	173	193	174	79	36.3
Personal care aides	1,458	33	155	272	253	299	305	140	45.5
Recreation and fitness workers	440	37	64	111	70	68	58	32	36.3
Residential advisors	30	1	10	5	5	5	2	2	-
Personal care and service workers, all other	178	11	25	54	33	27	18	10	34.8

Sales and office occupations	33,370	1,717	3,836	7,243	6,025	6,331	5,794	2,425	41.6
Sales and related occupations	15,582	1,100	1,885	3,231	2,737	2,889	2,508	1,232	40.8
First-line supervisors of retail sales workers	3,232	36	221	782	695	683	581	232	43.6
First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers	1,247	5	43	211	269	349	259	111	47.6
Cashiers	3,164	738	735	557	368	319	299	148	27.2
Counter and rental clerks	97	4	12	20	25	14	11	10	38.9
Parts salespersons	142	2	13	38	25	27	26	10	42.9
Retail salespersons	3,105	258	611	647	411	441	456	281	36.3
Advertising sales agents	190	1	14	59	39	39	29	9	39.8
Insurance sales agents	595	2	31	133	131	119	118	61	44.7
Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents	231	2	16	60	51	53	34	13	41.2
Travel agents	82	0	3	7	13	30	17	12	53.4
Sales representatives, services, all other	557	5	47	161	117	121	80	26	41.1
Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing	1,281	17	51	256	279	330	258	90	45.8
Models, demonstrators, and product promoters	62	3	4	11	7	7	8	21	53.9
Real estate brokers and sales agents	1,095	5	38	181	214	255	240	161	49.6
Sales engineers	35	0	2	10	6	8	9	1	-
Telemarketers	49	2	9	16	5	9	4	3	-
Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers	135	4	9	21	29	24	30	19	47.3
Sales and related workers, all other	284	14	26	60	53	61	47	23	42.9
Office and administrative support occupations	17,789	616	1,951	4,011	3,288	3,443	3,286	1,192	42.2
First-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers	1,306	6	51	286	294	335	264	71	45.6
Switchboard operators, including answering service	21	0	1	5	2	4	8	1	-
Telephone operators	42	3	7	10	10	4	5	3	-
Communications equipment operators, all other	12	0	0	5	1	4	1	0	-
Bill and account collectors	116	1	11	47	18	22	11	5	37.7
Billing and posting clerks	459	4	34	90	110	112	82	27	44.3
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks	1,015	9	50	123	181	239	285	129	50.9
Gaming cage workers	13	0	0	5	2	2	2	1	-
Payroll and timekeeping clerks	155	0	5	24	35	34	38	17	48.3
Procurement clerks	29	0	3	3	4	12	7	0	-
Tellers	294	10	77	84	45	36	32	10	30.9
Financial clerks, all other	119	0	15	29	32	21	18	5	40.4
Brokerage clerks	3	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	-
Correspondence clerks	5	0	0	1	1	0	1	1	-
Court, municipal, and license clerks	95	0	2	24	13	21	28	6	49.0
Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks	41	0	1	17	6	9	5	2	-
Customer service representatives	2,552	201	398	679	448	388	332	105	36.0
Eligibility interviewers, government programs	70	0	0	15	24	16	13	2	42.6
File clerks	175	12	18	35	24	41	27	17	44.8
Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks	116	3	35	44	13	12	5	5	29.1
Interviewers, except eligibility and loan	131	5	14	27	27	20	21	17	42.7
Library assistants, clerical	88	4	15	21	8	14	16	11	40.5
Loan interviewers and clerks	116	0	5	37	32	22	13	5	39.9
New accounts clerks	22	0	2	4	7	3	4	1	-
Order clerks	112	5	15	27	21	19	20	5	39.4
Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping	60	1	5	17	14	12	8	3	41.0
Receptionists and information clerks	1,288	72	219	317	207	192	187	94	37.2
Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks	119	1	10	37	23	22	22	3	39.7
Information and record clerks, all other	99	0	9	23	24	17	20	6	42.3
Cargo and freight agents	20	1	1	5	6	3	4	2	-
Couriers and messengers	402	14	50	102	70	76	58	33	40.9
Dispatchers	261	3	23	72	67	51	35	11	40.1
Meter readers, utilities	17	0	4	3	1	4	3	2	-
Postal service clerks	96	0	8	11	17	21	31	8	50.4
Postal service mail carriers	331	0	17	73	69	79	79	14	46.4
Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators	76	0	5	17	5	13	28	9	51.3
Production, planning, and expediting clerks	297	3	14	80	60	63	61	15	43.2
Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks	563	16	57	132	98	125	102	32	42.6
Stock clerks and order fillers	1,512	136	308	364	226	216	191	71	33.4
Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping	66	2	2	10	16	17	15	3	46.8
Secretaries and administrative assistants	2,688	27	155	439	511	632	675	249	48.8
Computer operators	72	3	3	19	13	12	14	8	43.0
Data entry keyers	250	7	27	56	62	42	44	12	41.1
Word processors and typists	57	2	6	13	11	7	14	4	43.1
Desktop publishers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Insurance claims and policy processing clerks	269	5	20	84	50	51	51	8	40.7
Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service	68	1	10	19	10	13	9	5	38.5
Office clerks, general	1,355	54	174	301	222	237	263	105	42.2
Office machine operators, except computer	32	2	5	8	6	4	6	2	-
Proofreaders and copy markers	7	0	0	1	2	1	2	1	-
Statistical assistants	58	0	7	18	11	13	10	0	40.8
Office and administrative support workers, all other	618	3	53	147	129	128	116	42	43.4

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations	14,343	336	1,311	3,320	3,479	2,952	2,342	602	41.6
Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations	1,156	75	126	257	247	201	182	69	40.1
First-line supervisors of farming, fishing, and forestry workers	51	0	2	10	10	8	17	4	49.4
Agricultural inspectors	18	0	0	3	3	3	8	0	-
Animal breeders	10	0	0	1	5	1	2	1	-
Graders and sorters, agricultural products	88	1	11	25	21	15	11	4	38.8
Miscellaneous agricultural workers	866	68	100	192	187	144	126	50	39.2
Fishers and related fishing workers	36	1	4	6	6	10	6	4	-
Hunters and trappers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Forest and conservation workers	21	0	2	5	3	6	2	3	-
Logging workers	66	3	7	14	12	15	11	4	41.9
Construction and extraction occupations	8,325	171	745	1,967	2,157	1,705	1,258	321	41.3
First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers	682	3	22	126	197	178	121	35	45.0
Boilermakers	24	0	2	5	9	5	3	0	-
Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons	152	1	12	31	35	44	20	9	43.1
Carpenters	1,292	21	104	285	363	256	207	55	41.9
Carpet, floor, and tile installers and finishers	170	4	11	49	47	35	17	7	40.3
Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers	65	1	7	17	19	12	7	2	40.4
Construction laborers	2,051	74	243	484	535	386	265	65	39.5
Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators	22	0	3	7	2	5	5	1	-
Pile-driver operators	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	-
Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators	375	7	29	77	90	86	67	19	43.5
Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers	178	4	15	44	50	37	23	5	40.9
Electricians	914	17	95	210	217	192	149	34	41.5
Glaziers	38	0	3	10	8	13	5	0	-
Insulation workers	59	0	7	14	21	9	6	2	39.8
Painters, construction and maintenance	599	8	35	136	166	133	95	25	42.1
Paperhangers	7	0	0	3	2	0	2	0	-
Pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters	637	8	49	165	171	114	104	26	41.0
Plasterers and stucco masons	23	0	1	8	6	2	5	0	-
Reinforcing iron and rebar workers	6	1	2	1	2	0	0	1	-
Roofers	222	3	27	82	47	38	19	5	35.7
Sheet metal workers	140	4	8	31	37	35	22	4	42.8
Structural iron and steel workers	66	2	4	19	19	12	8	1	38.9
Solar photovoltaic installers	18	0	4	10	2	1	0	0	-
Helpers, construction trades	50	6	10	16	7	5	5	1	31.5
Construction and building inspectors	105	2	5	12	16	28	32	10	52.1
Elevator installers and repairers	20	0	3	2	5	3	6	0	-
Fence erectors	41	1	5	17	7	8	3	0	-
Hazardous materials removal workers	40	0	3	8	8	9	9	1	-
Highway maintenance workers	113	3	12	23	15	29	24	7	45.8
Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators	4	0	1	2	0	0	1	0	-
Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners	8	0	0	1	3	2	1	0	-
Miscellaneous construction and related workers	32	0	8	7	6	5	3	2	-
Derrick, rotary drill, and service unit operators, oil, gas, and mining	29	0	2	14	8	3	2	0	-
Earth drillers, except oil and gas	22	0	1	8	7	3	2	0	-
Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters	8	0	0	3	3	1	1	0	-
Mining machine operators	56	0	4	18	13	9	10	1	40.9
Roof bolters, mining	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	-
Roustabouts, oil and gas	8	0	1	4	1	1	1	0	-
Helpers--extraction workers	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	-
Other extraction workers	46	0	5	17	11	6	6	0	-
Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations	4,862	90	440	1,096	1,075	1,046	903	212	42.5
First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers	272	0	4	46	67	71	68	16	48.0
Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers	184	2	20	50	33	43	28	7	40.6
Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers	131	3	13	27	30	31	22	5	41.4
Avionics technicians	13	0	1	1	4	3	5	0	-
Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers	16	1	1	3	2	2	5	1	-
Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment	7	0	0	1	2	1	3	0	-
Electrical and electronics repairers, industrial and utility	17	0	0	6	2	6	3	0	-
Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles	9	0	0	3	0	3	1	1	-
Electronic home entertainment equipment installers and repairers	32	1	3	12	8	5	3	1	-
Security and fire alarm systems installers	58	1	6	12	17	15	7	1	41.3
Aircraft mechanics and service technicians	152	1	11	25	32	41	32	10	48.1
Automotive body and related repairers	125	1	7	31	30	27	25	5	43.3
Automotive glass installers and repairers	21	1	4	4	4	5	2	1	-
Automotive service technicians and mechanics	880	22	120	223	184	176	133	22	39.5
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists	347	5	42	83	79	65	62	11	41.1
Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics	211	2	21	50	38	46	46	8	44.0
Small engine mechanics	45	3	4	10	11	5	8	5	-
Miscellaneous vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers	73	6	14	18	14	10	11	1	32.9
Control and valve installers and repairers	22	0	1	4	7	4	5	1	-
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers	466	13	44	121	104	97	68	19	40.9
Home appliance repairers	51	1	3	11	8	16	7	5	44.5
Industrial and refractory machinery mechanics	408	4	24	71	100	95	99	14	45.3
Maintenance and repair workers, general	579	8	32	102	123	141	134	40	46.9
Maintenance workers, machinery	21	0	0	6	4	5	4	2	-
Millwrights	52	0	3	9	13	11	12	3	45.4
Electrical power-line installers and repairers	133	1	18	40	39	23	13	1	38.0
Telecommunications line installers and repairers	184	5	12	53	52	43	16	2	38.7
Precision instrument and equipment repairers	69	1	5	9	12	12	20	9	49.6
Wind turbine service technicians	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	-
Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers	28	0	3	3	7	3	8	3	-
Commercial divers	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	-
Locksmiths and safe repairers	32	0	0	11	6	5	7	2	-
Manufactured building and mobile home installers	5	0	0	4	0	1	0	0	-
Riggers	12	0	0	5	3	1	1	0	-
Signal and track switch repairers	7	0	0	2	2	1	2	0	-
Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers	19	3	4	4	4	1	1	2	-
Other installation, maintenance, and repair workers	179	5	21	36	34	30	41	13	43.9

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations	18,628	543	1,808	4,027	3,644	3,950	3,542	1,115	43.0
Production occupations	8,565	170	775	1,897	1,778	1,841	1,705	399	43.0
First-line supervisors of production and operating workers	844	1	20	173	209	227	186	28	46.0
Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers	8	0	0	3	0	2	1	2	-
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers	101	3	9	19	19	24	22	4	44.0
Engine and other machine assemblers	9	0	1	3	2	2	2	0	-
Structural metal fabricators and fitters	25	1	3	9	7	2	3	0	-
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators	1,001	30	120	240	201	190	181	39	40.6
Bakers	228	7	22	53	46	42	46	12	41.6
Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers	297	5	32	62	70	68	43	16	41.8
Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders	17	0	0	4	3	4	3	2	-
Food batchmakers	82	3	5	23	14	19	13	5	41.6
Food cooking machine operators and tenders	3	1	0	1	1	1	0	0	-
Food processing workers, all other	147	2	16	31	40	28	26	4	41.6
Computer control programmers and operators	108	2	13	36	21	19	14	3	36.3
Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	13	0	0	3	3	4	1	0	-
Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	7	0	0	0	3	1	2	0	-
Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	13	0	1	0	4	4	3	2	-
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	70	0	6	15	16	13	16	4	44.1
Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	6	0	1	1	3	1	1	0	-
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	44	2	1	9	8	10	9	3	-
Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	6	0	0	1	1	2	1	0	-
Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	5	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	-
Machinists	375	7	38	70	61	74	108	16	47.2
Metal furnace operators, tenders, pourers, and casters	23	0	2	4	2	11	3	0	-
Model makers and patternmakers, metal and plastic	5	0	0	1	1	1	2	0	-
Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	45	1	6	8	4	15	10	1	-
Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	-
Tool and die makers	55	2	3	11	7	15	14	4	48.4
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers	592	16	67	164	127	114	91	13	39.3
Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	4	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	-
Layout workers, metal and plastic	10	0	2	2	2	1	3	0	-
Plating and coating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	13	0	1	3	1	4	3	0	-
Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	-
Metal workers and plastic workers, all other	392	3	36	85	88	82	79	17	43.3
Prepress technicians and workers	27	0	7	7	2	6	5	0	-
Printing press operators	133	2	15	27	22	38	23	6	43.7
Print binding and finishing workers	14	0	1	3	1	3	5	1	-
Laundry and dry-cleaning workers	134	4	5	21	32	31	36	6	46.6
Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials	28	0	2	7	11	5	2	1	-
Sewing machine operators	179	2	15	14	37	52	44	15	49.0
Shoe and leather workers and repairers	7	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	-
Shoe machine operators and tenders	5	0	0	2	2	0	1	0	-
Tailors, dressmakers, and sewers	86	0	0	11	16	14	25	21	53.9
Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-
Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders	4	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	-
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders	9	1	0	0	2	2	3	1	-
Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders	10	0	0	2	2	3	4	0	-
Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	-
Fabric and apparel patternmakers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Upholsterers	30	1	2	2	5	14	6	1	-
Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other	13	0	4	2	0	2	3	1	-
Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters	65	1	3	12	12	17	14	5	46.5
Furniture finishers	18	1	2	1	5	4	3	2	-
Model makers and patternmakers, wood	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood	33	1	6	9	6	5	5	2	-
Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing	12	0	2	2	3	3	2	0	-
Woodworkers, all other	23	0	1	3	6	3	5	4	-
Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers	43	0	1	8	11	11	9	2	-
Stationary engineers and boiler operators	52	0	0	11	5	13	18	6	53.3
Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators	110	0	5	25	20	26	29	5	46.5
Miscellaneous plant and system operators	51	0	3	11	12	15	7	2	43.1
Chemical processing machine setters, operators, and tenders	73	0	5	25	14	12	16	2	41.6
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers	90	1	11	26	13	14	18	7	41.2
Cutting workers	60	4	5	14	15	10	9	4	40.0
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders	27	1	4	7	2	9	2	1	-
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders	17	0	2	1	3	4	7	0	-
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers	802	13	69	171	168	171	165	44	43.5
Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers	40	1	2	2	11	7	11	7	-
Medical, dental, and ophthalmic laboratory technicians	91	2	8	22	18	18	16	6	42.6
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	262	9	26	61	47	56	54	8	41.4
Painting workers	171	3	15	52	37	28	30	5	40.9
Photographic process workers and processing machine operators	13	0	2	3	2	3	3	1	-
Semiconductor processors	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Adhesive bonding machine operators and tenders	10	1	1	1	2	2	3	0	-
Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	-
Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Etchers and engravers	8	0	2	0	0	1	3	2	-
Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic	31	0	3	7	11	5	5	1	-
Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders	24	1	3	3	8	4	2	3	-
Tire builders	8	0	1	3	2	1	1	0	-
Helpers--production workers	54	5	11	12	9	8	7	2	32.8
Production workers, all other	1,141	24	123	266	233	236	208	50	41.8
Transportation and material moving occupations	10,063	373	1,033	2,129	1,866	2,109	1,837	716	42.9
Supervisors of transportation and material moving workers	206	0	12	59	45	52	33	5	42.8
Aircraft pilots and flight engineers	141	0	3	19	32	41	38	10	48.8
Air traffic controllers and airfield operations specialists	43	0	0	14	11	12	6	0	-
Flight attendants	110	0	5	27	15	27	28	9	49.4
Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians	15	0	0	4	0	7	3	1	-
Bus drivers	546	0	2	62	92	130	154	104	53.7
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers	3,608	45	256	652	724	860	792	279	46.4
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs	790	5	50	167	149	158	159	102	46.3
Motor vehicle operators, all other	66	1	6	8	6	8	12	26	58.6
Locomotive engineers and operators	42	0	0	7	14	17	4	0	-
Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	-
Railroad conductors and yardmasters	52	2	1	12	16	16	2	2	39.9
Subway, streetcar, and other rail transportation workers	9	0	0	3	1	1	3	1	-
Sailors and marine oilers	19	2	4	7	2	2	2	0	-
Ship and boat captains and operators	45	0	3	9	12	14	5	2	-
Ship engineers	5	0	0	2	0	3	0	1	-
Bridge and lock tenders	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-
Parking lot attendants	83	6	28	20	6	9	7	8	28.2
Automotive and watercraft service attendants	88	15	15	26	11	9	9	3	30.2
Transportation inspectors	42	1	2	11	7	10	8	2	-
Transportation attendants, except flight attendants	43	1	3	7	5	11	11	6	-
Other transportation workers	38	0	2	12	7	10	4	3	-
Conveyor operators and tenders	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	-
Crane and tower operators	63	1	6	12	13	15	14	3	44.6
Dredge, excavating, and loading machine operators	28	0	2	7	6	3	5	4	-
Hoist and winch operators	9	1	2	3	1	1	1	0	-
Industrial truck and tractor operators	571	12	76	132	128	121	84	18	39.8
Cleaners of vehicles and equipment	344	43	58	84	52	54	35	17	33.0
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	2,235	180	377	569	376	359	305	70	35.0
Machine feeders and offbearers	24	2	4	4	4	3	7	0	-
Packers and packagers, hand	628	52	90	143	105	121	83	34	37.8
Pumping station operators	16	0	2	3	4	5	2	0	-
Refuse and recyclable material collectors	99	4	14	29	14	21	14	5	38.0
Mine shuttle car operators	2	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	-
Tank car, truck, and ship loaders	6	0	2	1	1	0	1	0	-
Material moving workers, all other	41	0	8	11	6	8	6	2	-
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: January 22, 2020