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Fastest declining occupations

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Table 1.5 Fastest declining occupations, 2020 and projected 2030
(Numbers in thousands)
2020 National Employment Matrix title	2020 National Employment Matrix code	Employment, 2020	Employment, 2030	Employment change, 2020–30	Percent employment change, 2020–30	Median annual wage, 2020 (1)
Total, all occupations	00-0000	153,533.8	165,413.7	11,879.9	7.7	$41,950
Word processors and typists	43-9022	45.2	28.9	-16.3	-36.0	$41,050
Parking enforcement workers	33-3041	7.9	5.1	-2.8	-35.0	$42,070
Nuclear power reactor operators	51-8011	5.3	3.6	-1.8	-32.9	$104,040
Cutters and trimmers, hand	51-9031	8.1	5.7	-2.4	-29.7	$31,630
Telephone operators	43-2021	4.8	3.6	-1.2	-25.4	$37,710
Watch and clock repairers	49-9064	2.8	2.1	-0.7	-24.9	$45,290
Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers	41-9091	54.0	41.0	-13.0	-24.1	$29,730
Switchboard operators, including answering service	43-2011	59.9	46.3	-13.6	-22.7	$31,430
Data entry keyers	43-9021	158.4	122.8	-35.6	-22.5	$34,440
Shoe machine operators and tenders	51-6042	5.0	3.9	-1.1	-21.6	$30,630
Legal secretaries and administrative assistants	43-6012	160.4	126.7	-33.6	-21.0	$48,980
Floral designers	27-1023	42.3	33.8	-8.5	-20.1	$29,140
Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants	43-6011	538.8	438.2	-100.6	-18.7	$63,110
Manufactured building and mobile home installers	49-9095	3.4	2.8	-0.6	-18.4	$35,120
Telemarketers	41-9041	119.7	97.8	-21.9	-18.3	$27,920
Order clerks	43-4151	133.9	109.5	-24.4	-18.2	$35,590
Timing device assemblers and adjusters	51-2061	1.0	0.8	-0.2	-17.8	$36,170
Print binding and finishing workers	51-5113	41.6	34.4	-7.3	-17.5	$34,260
Prepress technicians and workers	51-5111	28.2	23.3	-4.8	-17.1	$41,410
Tellers	43-3071	432.5	359.4	-73.1	-16.9	$32,620
New accounts clerks	43-4141	46.1	38.4	-7.7	-16.7	$37,750
Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles	49-2096	10.2	8.5	-1.6	-16.2	$39,570
Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers	51-2011	37.8	31.7	-6.0	-15.9	$53,160
Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	51-4032	9.1	7.7	-1.4	-15.5	$39,780
Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic	51-4035	15.7	13.3	-2.4	-15.1	$43,150
Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders	51-6063	19.6	16.7	-2.9	-14.8	$31,090
Pharmacy aides	31-9095	38.9	33.2	-5.7	-14.7	$29,280
Refractory materials repairers, except brickmasons	49-9045	0.8	0.6	-0.1	-14.5	$54,610
Shoe and leather workers and repairers	51-6041	8.7	7.5	-1.2	-14.0	$30,550
Sewing machine operators	51-6031	133.5	114.8	-18.6	-14.0	$28,230
Footnotes: (1) Data are from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wage data cover non-farm wage and salary workers and do not cover the self-employed, owners and partners in unincorporated firms, or household workers. Note: Data is unavailable for values denoted with a "—". Source: Employment Projections program, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Last Modified Date: September 8, 2021