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Employment and wages for newly defined occupations, May 2021
June 15, 2022
Software developers (with employment of nearly 1.4 million), project management specialists (743,860), and school bus drivers (361,420) were among the largest newly defined occupations in the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system. These were among more than 50 occupations for which employment and wage estimates were published for the first time in the May 2021 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics data.
Health information technologists and medical registrars
37,900
61,410
Surgical assistants
17,250
59,170
Protective service
First-line supervisors of security workers
55,450
55,080
School bus monitors
55,310
30,220
Personal care and service
First-line supervisors of entertainment and recreation workers, except gambling services
66,860
47,130
First-line supervisors of personal service workers
101,030
45,730
Crematory operators
2,040
39,660
Construction and extraction
Earth drillers, except oil and gas
15,800
53,600
Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters
5,370
57,070
Underground mining machine operators, all other
3,150
60,290
Transportation and material moving
Bus drivers, school
361,420
38,750
Shuttle drivers and chauffeurs
175,660
32,570
Taxi drivers
13,950
30,050
Aircraft service attendants
12,170
38,640
The computer and mathematical and healthcare practitioners and technical groups had the largest numbers of new occupations. After software developers, the new computer and mathematical occupations with the highest employment were software quality assurance analysts and testers (with employment of 190,120) and data scientists (105,980). The largest healthcare practitioners and technical occupations with new data were medical records specialists (180,570) and emergency medical technicians (161,400).
Some occupations new to the 2018 SOC were much smaller, including pediatric surgeons (820), crematory operators (2,040), and medical dosimetrists (2,400).
Several types of specialty physicians and surgeons were among the highest-paying new occupations, including cardiologists; emergency medicine physicians; orthopedic surgeons, except pediatric; and dermatologists. These occupations had annual mean wages of more than $300,000 and were also among the highest paying occupations overall.
The lowest paying new occupations were taxi drivers ($30,050), school bus monitors ($30,220), and shuttle drivers and chauffeurs ($32,570), all with mean wages below the U.S. all-occupations average of $58,260.
These data are from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program. The chart shows occupations that were created as part of the 2018 SOC revision and for which estimates were published for the first time in the May 2021 OEWS data release. Disc jockeys, except radio, for which OEWS publishes only hourly wage estimates, is not shown. For more information, see the 2018 SOC home page, OEWS 2018 SOC implementation page, and OEWS frequently asked questions.
United States Department of Labor
