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EMPLOYMENT & UNEMPLOYMENT   •  Jun 2025  •  Volume 14 / Number 6
Employment and wages for alternate definitions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations

Employment and wages for alternate definitions of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations

Analyzing data for STEM occupations can be challenging because many definitions of STEM exist. This Beyond the Numbers (BTN) article provides research and analysis of STEM occupations by presenting employment and wage data for different definitions of STEM, based on options for defining STEM developed by the interagency SOCPC. This article uses a special tabulation of May 2023 OEWS data to look at national STEM employment and wages for alternate SOCPC definitions.

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