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Accountants and Auditors

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.

Starting Salary: $50,440

Median Salary: $79,880

Employment: 1,435,770

Actors

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Play parts in stage, television, radio, video, or film productions, or other settings for entertainment, information, or instruction. Interpret serious or comic role by speech, gesture, and body movement to entertain or inform audience. May dance and sing.

Starting Salary: $27,040

Median Salary: $42,640

Employment: 62,560

Actuaries

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Analyze statistical data, such as mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates and construct probability tables to forecast risk and liability for payment of future benefits. May ascertain insurance rates required and cash reserves necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.

Starting Salary: $75,380

Median Salary: $120,000

Employment: 25,470

Acupuncturists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, treat, and prevent disorders by stimulating specific acupuncture points within the body using acupuncture needles. May also use cups, nutritional supplements, therapeutic massage, acupressure, and other alternative health therapies.

Starting Salary: $41,600

Median Salary: $78,220

Employment: 9,370

Acute Care Nurses

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Provide advanced nursing care for patients with acute conditions such as heart attacks, respiratory distress syndrome, or shock. May care for pre- and post-operative patients or perform advanced, invasive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.

Starting Salary: $63,720

Median Salary: $86,070

Employment: 3,175,390

Adapted Physical Education Specialists

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Provide individualized physical education instruction or services to children, youth, or adults with exceptional physical needs due to gross motor developmental delays or other impairments.

Starting Salary: $43,530

Median Salary: $67,190

Employment: 43,700

Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or tend bonding machines that use adhesives to join items for further processing or to form a completed product. Processes include joining veneer sheets into plywood; gluing paper; or joining rubber and rubberized fabric parts, plastic, simulated leather, or other materials.

Starting Salary: $31,200

Median Salary: $43,540

Employment: 12,510

Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers

Industries: Legal Occupations

Conduct hearings to recommend or make decisions on claims concerning government programs or other government-related matters. Determine liability, sanctions, or penalties, or recommend the acceptance or rejection of claims or settlements.

Starting Salary: $53,140

Median Salary: $111,090

Employment: 14,670

Administrative Services Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate one or more administrative services of an organization, such as records and information management, mail distribution, and other office support services.

Starting Salary: $62,470

Median Salary: $106,470

Employment: 242,520

Adult Basic Education, Adult Secondary Education, and English as a Second Language Instructors

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach or instruct out-of-school youths and adults in basic education, literacy, or English as a Second Language classes, or in classes for earning a high school equivalency credential.

Starting Salary: $39,710

Median Salary: $60,560

Employment: 36,890

Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assess, diagnose, and treat individuals and families with mental health or substance use disorders or the potential for such disorders. Apply therapeutic activities, including the prescription of medication, per state regulations, and the administration of psychotherapy.

Starting Salary: $63,720

Median Salary: $86,070

Employment: 3,175,390

Advertising and Promotions Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate advertising policies and programs or produce collateral materials, such as posters, contests, coupons, or giveaways, to create extra interest in the purchase of a product or service for a department, an entire organization, or on an account basis.

Starting Salary: $63,580

Median Salary: $131,870

Employment: 20,630

Advertising Sales Agents

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Sell or solicit advertising space, time, or media in publications, signage, TV, radio, or Internet establishments or public spaces.

Starting Salary: $31,200

Median Salary: $61,270

Employment: 108,100

Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Operate, install, adjust, and maintain integrated computer/communications systems, consoles, simulators, and other data acquisition, test, and measurement instruments and equipment, which are used to launch, track, position, and evaluate air and space vehicles. May record and interpret test data.

Starting Salary: $50,050

Median Salary: $77,830

Employment: 10,640

Aerospace Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Perform engineering duties in designing, constructing, and testing aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft. May conduct basic and applied research to evaluate adaptability of materials and equipment to aircraft design and manufacture. May recommend improvements in testing equipment and techniques.

Starting Salary: $81,620

Median Salary: $130,720

Employment: 66,660

Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Represent and promote artists, performers, and athletes in dealings with current or prospective employers. May handle contract negotiation and other business matters for clients.

Starting Salary: $47,100

Median Salary: $84,900

Employment: 12,870

Agricultural Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Apply knowledge of engineering technology and biological science to agricultural problems concerned with power and machinery, electrification, structures, soil and water conservation, and processing of agricultural products.

Starting Salary: $62,150

Median Salary: $88,750

Employment: 1,860

Agricultural Equipment Operators

Industries: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

Drive and control equipment to support agricultural activities such as tilling soil; planting, cultivating, and harvesting crops; feeding and herding livestock; or removing animal waste. May perform tasks such as crop baling or hay bucking. May operate stationary equipment to perform post-harvest tasks such as husking, shelling, threshing, and ginning.

Starting Salary: $30,050

Median Salary: $39,690

Employment: 28,910

Agricultural Inspectors

Industries: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

Inspect agricultural commodities, processing equipment, and facilities, and fish and logging operations, to ensure compliance with regulations and laws governing health, quality, and safety.

Starting Salary: $35,360

Median Salary: $48,010

Employment: 12,660

Agricultural Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in the agricultural sciences. Includes teachers of agronomy, dairy sciences, fisheries management, horticultural sciences, poultry sciences, range management, and agricultural soil conservation. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $49,240

Median Salary: $85,260

Employment: 7,550

Agricultural Technicians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Work with agricultural scientists in plant, fiber, and animal research, or assist with animal breeding and nutrition. Set up or maintain laboratory equipment and collect samples from crops or animals. Prepare specimens or record data to assist scientists in biology or related life science experiments. Conduct tests and experiments to improve yield and quality of crops or to increase the resistance of plants and animals to disease or insects.

Starting Salary: $30,750

Median Salary: $43,180

Employment: 13,150

Agricultural Workers, All Other

Industries: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

All agricultural workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $26,720

Median Salary: $40,620

Employment: 6,040

Air Traffic Controllers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Control air traffic on and within vicinity of airport, and movement of air traffic between altitude sectors and control centers, according to established procedures and policies. Authorize, regulate, and control commercial airline flights according to government or company regulations to expedite and ensure flight safety.

Starting Salary: $76,190

Median Salary: $137,380

Employment: 22,310

Aircraft Cargo Handling Supervisors

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Supervise and coordinate the activities of ground crew in the loading, unloading, securing, and staging of aircraft cargo or baggage. May determine the quantity and orientation of cargo and compute aircraft center of gravity. May accompany aircraft as member of flight crew and monitor and handle cargo in flight, and assist and brief passengers on safety and emergency procedures. Includes loadmasters.

Starting Salary: $45,770

Median Salary: $58,920

Employment: 9,020

Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul aircraft engines and assemblies, such as hydraulic and pneumatic systems.

Starting Salary: $45,760

Median Salary: $75,020

Employment: 137,630

Aircraft Service Attendants

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Service aircraft with fuel. May de-ice aircraft, refill water and cooling agents, empty sewage tanks, service air and oxygen systems, or clean and polish exterior.

Starting Salary: $32,040

Median Salary: $39,110

Employment: 24,940

Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers

Industries: Production Occupations

Assemble, fit, fasten, and install parts of airplanes, space vehicles, or missiles, such as tails, wings, fuselage, bulkheads, stabilizers, landing gear, rigging and control equipment, or heating and ventilating systems.

Starting Salary: $39,550

Median Salary: $61,240

Employment: 29,810

Airfield Operations Specialists

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Ensure the safe takeoff and landing of commercial and military aircraft. Duties include coordination between air-traffic control and maintenance personnel, dispatching, using airfield landing and navigational aids, implementing airfield safety procedures, monitoring and maintaining flight records, and applying knowledge of weather information.

Starting Salary: $33,870

Median Salary: $51,140

Employment: 18,320

Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Pilot and navigate the flight of fixed-wing aircraft, usually on scheduled air carrier routes, for the transport of passengers and cargo. Requires Federal Air Transport certificate and rating for specific aircraft type used. Includes regional, national, and international airline pilots and flight instructors of airline pilots.

Starting Salary: $101,710

Median Salary: $219,140

Employment: 93,670

Allergists and Immunologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, treat, and help prevent allergic diseases and disease processes affecting the immune system.

Starting Salary: $66,260

Median Salary: $236,000

Employment: 310,080

Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Drive ambulance or assist ambulance driver in transporting sick, injured, or convalescent persons. Assist in lifting patients.

Starting Salary: $23,410

Median Salary: $32,580

Employment: 11,520

Amusement and Recreation Attendants

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Perform a variety of attending duties at amusement or recreation facility. May schedule use of recreation facilities, maintain and provide equipment to participants of sporting events or recreational pursuits, or operate amusement concessions and rides.

Starting Salary: $21,450

Median Salary: $29,390

Employment: 361,680

Anesthesiologist Assistants

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assist anesthesiologists in the administration of anesthesia for surgical and non-surgical procedures. Monitor patient status and provide patient care during surgical treatment.

Starting Salary: $86,280

Median Salary: $130,020

Employment: 145,740

Anesthesiologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Administer anesthetics and analgesics for pain management prior to, during, or after surgery.

Starting Salary: $84,940

Median Salary: $191,980

Employment: 33,470

Animal Breeders

Industries: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

Select and breed animals according to their genealogy, characteristics, and offspring. May require knowledge of artificial insemination techniques and equipment use. May involve keeping records on heats, birth intervals, or pedigree.

Starting Salary: $33,710

Median Salary: $47,540

Employment: 1,360

Animal Caretakers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Feed, water, groom, bathe, exercise, or otherwise provide care to promote and maintain the well-being of pets and other animals that are not raised for consumption, such as dogs, cats, race horses, ornamental fish or birds, zoo animals, and mice. Work in settings such as kennels, animal shelters, zoos, circuses, and aquariums. May keep records of feedings, treatments, and animals received or discharged. May clean, disinfect, and repair cages, pens, or fish tanks.

Starting Salary: $23,180

Median Salary: $31,200

Employment: 268,830

Animal Control Workers

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Handle animals for the purpose of investigations of mistreatment, or control of abandoned, dangerous, or unattended animals.

Starting Salary: $30,820

Median Salary: $43,170

Employment: 11,600

Animal Scientists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Conduct research in the genetics, nutrition, reproduction, growth, and development of domestic farm animals.

Starting Salary: $46,240

Median Salary: $70,140

Employment: 2,460

Animal Trainers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Train animals for riding, harness, security, performance, or obedience, or for assisting persons with disabilities. Accustom animals to human voice and contact, and condition animals to respond to commands. Train animals according to prescribed standards for show or competition. May train animals to carry pack loads or work as part of pack team.

Starting Salary: $28,960

Median Salary: $38,810

Employment: 19,240

Anthropologists and Archeologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Study the origin, development, and behavior of human beings. May study the way of life, language, or physical characteristics of people in various parts of the world. May engage in systematic recovery and examination of material evidence, such as tools or pottery remaining from past human cultures, in order to determine the history, customs, and living habits of earlier civilizations.

Starting Salary: $43,770

Median Salary: $63,800

Employment: 7,720

Anthropology and Archeology Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in anthropology or archeology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $51,980

Median Salary: $93,650

Employment: 5,030

Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators

Industries: Legal Occupations

Facilitate negotiation and conflict resolution through dialogue. Resolve conflicts outside of the court system by mutual consent of parties involved.

Starting Salary: $35,960

Median Salary: $71,540

Employment: 7,060

Architects, Except Landscape and Naval

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Plan and design structures, such as private residences, office buildings, theaters, factories, and other structural property.

Starting Salary: $58,870

Median Salary: $93,310

Employment: 111,170

Architectural and Civil Drafters

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Prepare detailed drawings of architectural and structural features of buildings or drawings and topographical relief maps used in civil engineering projects, such as highways, bridges, and public works. Use knowledge of building materials, engineering practices, and mathematics to complete drawings.

Starting Salary: $39,720

Median Salary: $61,820

Employment: 111,070

Architectural and Engineering Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as architecture and engineering or research and development in these fields.

Starting Salary: $107,390

Median Salary: $165,370

Employment: 207,800

Architecture Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in architecture and architectural design, such as architectural environmental design, interior architecture/design, and landscape architecture. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $60,610

Median Salary: $105,770

Employment: 8,350

Archivists

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Appraise, edit, and direct safekeeping of permanent records and historically valuable documents. Participate in research activities based on archival materials.

Starting Salary: $37,720

Median Salary: $59,910

Employment: 7,150

Area, Ethnic, and Cultural Studies Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses pertaining to the culture and development of an area, an ethnic group, or any other group, such as Latin American studies, women's studies, or urban affairs. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $51,590

Median Salary: $86,030

Employment: 11,570

Art Directors

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Formulate design concepts and presentation approaches for visual productions and media, such as print, broadcasting, video, and film. Direct workers engaged in artwork or layout design.

Starting Salary: $60,440

Median Salary: $106,500

Employment: 51,200

Art Therapists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Plan or conduct art therapy sessions or programs to improve clients' physical, cognitive, or emotional well-being.

Starting Salary: $40,790

Median Salary: $63,650

Employment: 16,490

Art, Drama, and Music Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in drama, music, and the arts including fine and applied art, such as painting and sculpture, or design and crafts. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $47,570

Median Salary: $80,360

Employment: 101,500

Artists and Related Workers, All Other

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

All artists and related workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $31,310

Median Salary: $74,750

Employment: 7,420

Astronomers

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Observe, research, and interpret astronomical phenomena to increase basic knowledge or apply such information to practical problems.

Starting Salary: $56,500

Median Salary: $127,930

Employment: 2,080

Athletes and Sports Competitors

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Compete in athletic events.

Starting Salary: $27,730

Median Salary: $70,280

Employment: 14,930

Athletic Trainers

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Evaluate and treat musculoskeletal injuries or illnesses. Provide preventive, therapeutic, emergency, and rehabilitative care.

Starting Salary: $43,180

Median Salary: $57,930

Employment: 28,480

Atmospheric and Space Scientists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Investigate atmospheric phenomena and interpret meteorological data, gathered by surface and air stations, satellites, and radar to prepare reports and forecasts for public and other uses. Includes weather analysts and forecasters whose functions require the detailed knowledge of meteorology.

Starting Salary: $48,960

Median Salary: $92,860

Employment: 9,310

Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in the physical sciences, except chemistry and physics. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching, and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $52,430

Median Salary: $100,690

Employment: 11,770

Audio and Video Technicians

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Set up, maintain, and dismantle audio and video equipment, such as microphones, sound speakers, connecting wires and cables, sound and mixing boards, video cameras, video monitors and servers, and related electronic equipment for live or recorded events, such as concerts, meetings, conventions, presentations, podcasts, news conferences, and sporting events.

Starting Salary: $33,790

Median Salary: $51,640

Employment: 66,700

Audiologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assess and treat persons with hearing and related disorders. May fit hearing aids and provide auditory training. May perform research related to hearing problems.

Starting Salary: $56,090

Median Salary: $87,740

Employment: 13,880

Audiovisual Equipment Installers and Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install, repair, or adjust audio or television receivers, stereo systems, camcorders, video systems, or other electronic entertainment equipment in homes or other venues. May perform routine maintenance.

Starting Salary: $33,260

Median Salary: $48,380

Employment: 24,720

Automotive and Watercraft Service Attendants

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Service automobiles, buses, trucks, boats, and other automotive or marine vehicles with fuel, lubricants, and accessories. Collect payment for services and supplies. May lubricate vehicle, change motor oil, refill antifreeze, or replace lights or other accessories, such as windshield wiper blades or fan belts. May repair or replace tires.

Starting Salary: $27,430

Median Salary: $33,820

Employment: 92,530

Automotive Body and Related Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair and refinish automotive vehicle bodies and straighten vehicle frames.

Starting Salary: $35,250

Median Salary: $48,740

Employment: 151,910

Automotive Engineering Technicians

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Assist engineers in determining the practicality of proposed product design changes and plan and carry out tests on experimental test devices or equipment for performance, durability, or efficiency.

Starting Salary: $44,110

Median Salary: $64,020

Employment: 38,930

Automotive Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Develop new or improved designs for vehicle structural members, engines, transmissions, or other vehicle systems, using computer-assisted design technology. Direct building, modification, or testing of vehicle or components.

Starting Salary: $64,560

Median Salary: $99,510

Employment: 281,290

Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Replace or repair broken windshields and window glass in motor vehicles.

Starting Salary: $31,370

Median Salary: $45,320

Employment: 16,890

Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul automotive vehicles.

Starting Salary: $30,600

Median Salary: $47,770

Employment: 676,570

Aviation Inspectors

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Inspect aircraft, maintenance procedures, air navigational aids, air traffic controls, and communications equipment to ensure conformance with Federal safety regulations.

Starting Salary: $39,790

Median Salary: $87,290

Employment: 27,670

Avionics Technicians

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install, inspect, test, adjust, or repair avionics equipment, such as radar, radio, navigation, and missile control systems in aircraft or space vehicles.

Starting Salary: $46,570

Median Salary: $77,420

Employment: 21,280

Baggage Porters and Bellhops

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Handle baggage for travelers at transportation terminals or for guests at hotels or similar establishments.

Starting Salary: $24,710

Median Salary: $34,840

Employment: 28,780

Bailiffs

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Maintain order in courts of law.

Starting Salary: $29,540

Median Salary: $53,040

Employment: 15,900

Bakers

Industries: Production Occupations

Mix and bake ingredients to produce breads, rolls, cookies, cakes, pies, pastries, or other baked goods.

Starting Salary: $24,960

Median Salary: $34,950

Employment: 220,230

Barbers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Provide barbering services, such as cutting, trimming, shampooing, and styling hair; trimming beards; or giving shaves.

Starting Salary: $26,770

Median Salary: $36,150

Employment: 15,990

Baristas

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Prepare or serve specialty coffee or other beverages. Serve food such as baked goods or sandwiches to patrons.

Starting Salary: $22,190

Median Salary: $29,540

Employment: 3,676,580

Bartenders

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Mix and serve drinks to patrons, directly or through waitstaff.

Starting Salary: $19,870

Median Salary: $31,510

Employment: 711,140

Bicycle Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair and service bicycles.

Starting Salary: $28,670

Median Salary: $38,320

Employment: 13,980

Bill and Account Collectors

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Locate and notify customers of delinquent accounts by mail, telephone, or personal visit to solicit payment. Duties include receiving payment and posting amount to customer's account, preparing statements to credit department if customer fails to respond, initiating repossession proceedings or service disconnection, and keeping records of collection and status of accounts.

Starting Salary: $31,960

Median Salary: $44,250

Employment: 190,910

Billing and Posting Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Compile, compute, and record billing, accounting, statistical, and other numerical data for billing purposes. Prepare billing invoices for services rendered or for delivery or shipment of goods.

Starting Salary: $34,360

Median Salary: $45,590

Employment: 430,220

Biochemists and Biophysicists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Study the chemical composition or physical principles of living cells and organisms, their electrical and mechanical energy, and related phenomena. May conduct research to further understanding of the complex chemical combinations and reactions involved in metabolism, reproduction, growth, and heredity. May determine the effects of foods, drugs, serums, hormones, and other substances on tissues and vital processes of living organisms.

Starting Salary: $64,680

Median Salary: $107,460

Employment: 33,180

Bioengineers and Biomedical Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Apply knowledge of engineering, biology, chemistry, computer science, and biomechanical principles to the design, development, and evaluation of biological, agricultural, and health systems and products, such as artificial organs, prostheses, instrumentation, medical information systems, and health management and care delivery systems.

Starting Salary: $68,100

Median Salary: $100,730

Employment: 19,320

Biofuels Processing Technicians

Industries: Production Occupations

Calculate, measure, load, mix, and process refined feedstock with additives in fermentation or reaction process vessels and monitor production process. Perform, and keep records of, plant maintenance, repairs, and safety inspections.

Starting Salary: $36,120

Median Salary: $56,940

Employment: 15,370

Biofuels Production Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Manage biofuels production and plant operations. Collect and process information on plant production and performance, diagnose problems, and design corrective procedures.

Starting Salary: $72,010

Median Salary: $116,970

Employment: 222,890

Biofuels/Biodiesel Technology and Product Development Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Define, plan, or execute biofuels/biodiesel research programs that evaluate alternative feedstock and process technologies with near-term commercial potential.

Starting Salary: $107,390

Median Salary: $165,370

Employment: 207,800

Bioinformatics Scientists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Conduct research using bioinformatics theory and methods in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology, computational biology, proteomics, computer information science, biology and medical informatics. May design databases and develop algorithms for processing and analyzing genomic information, or other biological information.

Starting Salary: $52,230

Median Salary: $91,100

Employment: 61,220

Bioinformatics Technicians

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Apply principles and methods of bioinformatics to assist scientists in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology, computational biology, proteomics, computer information science, biology and medical informatics. Apply bioinformatics tools to visualize, analyze, manipulate or interpret molecular data. May build and maintain databases for processing and analyzing genomic or other biological information.

Starting Salary: $38,400

Median Salary: $70,620

Employment: 4,320

Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in biological sciences. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $51,670

Median Salary: $83,920

Employment: 52,050

Biological Scientists, All Other

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

All biological scientists not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $52,230

Median Salary: $91,100

Employment: 61,220

Biological Technicians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Assist biological and medical scientists. Set up, operate, and maintain laboratory instruments and equipment, monitor experiments, collect data and samples, make observations, and calculate and record results. May analyze organic substances, such as blood, food, and drugs.

Starting Salary: $36,970

Median Salary: $51,430

Employment: 76,990

Biologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Research or study basic principles of plant and animal life, such as origin, relationship, development, anatomy, and functions.

Starting Salary: $52,230

Median Salary: $91,100

Employment: 61,220

Biomass Plant Technicians

Industries: Production Occupations

Control and monitor biomass plant activities and perform maintenance as needed.

Starting Salary: $54,080

Median Salary: $97,010

Employment: 31,490

Biomass Power Plant Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Manage operations at biomass power generation facilities. Direct work activities at plant, including supervision of operations and maintenance staff.

Starting Salary: $72,010

Median Salary: $116,970

Employment: 222,890

Biostatisticians

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Develop and apply biostatistical theory and methods to the study of life sciences.

Starting Salary: $58,690

Median Salary: $104,110

Employment: 29,950

Blockchain Engineers

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Maintain and support distributed and decentralized blockchain-based networks or block-chain applications such as cryptocurrency exchange, payment processing, document sharing, and digital voting. Design and deploy secure block-chain design patterns and solutions over geographically distributed networks using advanced technologies. May assist with infrastructure setup and testing for application transparency and security.

Starting Salary: $49,690

Median Salary: $104,920

Employment: 437,170

Boilermakers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Construct, assemble, maintain, and repair stationary steam boilers and boiler house auxiliaries. Align structures or plate sections to assemble boiler frame tanks or vats, following blueprints. Work involves use of hand and power tools, plumb bobs, levels, wedges, dogs, or turnbuckles. Assist in testing assembled vessels. Direct cleaning of boilers and boiler furnaces. Inspect and repair boiler fittings, such as safety valves, regulators, automatic-control mechanisms, water columns, and auxiliary machines.

Starting Salary: $49,510

Median Salary: $71,140

Employment: 11,130

Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete. Perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records. May also check the accuracy of figures, calculations, and postings pertaining to business transactions recorded by other workers.

Starting Salary: $32,460

Median Salary: $47,440

Employment: 1,501,910

Brickmasons and Blockmasons

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Lay and bind building materials, such as brick, structural tile, concrete block, cinder block, glass block, and terra-cotta block, with mortar and other substances, to construct or repair walls, partitions, arches, sewers, and other structures.

Starting Salary: $38,360

Median Salary: $59,640

Employment: 56,830

Bridge and Lock Tenders

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Operate and tend bridges, canal locks, and lighthouses to permit marine passage on inland waterways, near shores, and at danger points in waterway passages. May supervise such operations. Includes drawbridge operators, lock operators, and slip bridge operators.

Starting Salary: $28,990

Median Salary: $49,120

Employment: 3,460

Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Speak or read from scripted materials, such as news reports or commercial messages, on radio, television, or other communications media. May play and queue music, announce artist or title of performance, identify station, or interview guests.

Starting Salary: $24,400

Median Salary: $44,890

Employment: 25,070

Broadcast Technicians

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Set up, operate, and maintain the electronic equipment used to acquire, edit, and transmit audio and video for radio or television programs. Control and adjust incoming and outgoing broadcast signals to regulate sound volume, signal strength, and signal clarity. Operate satellite, microwave, or other transmitter equipment to broadcast radio or television programs.

Starting Salary: $28,080

Median Salary: $57,690

Employment: 26,190

Brokerage Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Perform duties related to the purchase, sale, or holding of securities. Duties include writing orders for stock purchases or sales, computing transfer taxes, verifying stock transactions, accepting and delivering securities, tracking stock price fluctuations, computing equity, distributing dividends, and keeping records of daily transactions and holdings.

Starting Salary: $45,750

Median Salary: $60,150

Employment: 48,060

Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan and direct cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties for reuse. Does not include properties sufficiently contaminated to qualify as Superfund sites.

Starting Salary: $67,370

Median Salary: $133,560

Employment: 589,750

Budget Analysts

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Examine budget estimates for completeness, accuracy, and conformance with procedures and regulations. Analyze budgeting and accounting reports.

Starting Salary: $56,760

Median Salary: $84,940

Employment: 47,310

Building Cleaning Workers, All Other

Industries: Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

All building cleaning workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $29,410

Median Salary: $39,900

Employment: 13,740

Bus and Truck Mechanics and Diesel Engine Specialists

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul buses and trucks, or maintain and repair any type of diesel engines. Includes mechanics working primarily with automobile or marine diesel engines.

Starting Salary: $39,020

Median Salary: $58,970

Employment: 285,030

Bus Drivers, School

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Drive a school bus to transport students. Ensure adherence to safety rules. May assist students in boarding or exiting.

Starting Salary: $27,380

Median Salary: $45,660

Employment: 371,530

Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Drive bus or motor coach, including regular route operations, charters, and private carriage. May assist passengers with baggage. May collect fares or tickets.

Starting Salary: $37,630

Median Salary: $60,170

Employment: 184,990

Business Continuity Planners

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Develop, maintain, or implement business continuity and disaster recovery strategies and solutions, including risk assessments, business impact analyses, strategy selection, and documentation of business continuity and disaster recovery procedures. Plan, conduct, and debrief regular mock-disaster exercises to test the adequacy of existing plans and strategies, updating procedures and plans regularly. Act as a coordinator for continuity efforts after a disruption event.

Starting Salary: $44,370

Median Salary: $79,590

Employment: 1,103,440

Business Intelligence Analysts

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Produce financial and market intelligence by querying data repositories and generating periodic reports. Devise methods for identifying data patterns and trends in available information sources.

Starting Salary: $61,070

Median Salary: $108,020

Employment: 192,710

Business Operations Specialists, All Other

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

All business operations specialists not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $44,370

Median Salary: $79,590

Employment: 1,103,440

Business Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in business administration and management, such as accounting, finance, human resources, labor and industrial relations, marketing, and operations research. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $48,580

Median Salary: $97,130

Employment: 82,980

Butchers and Meat Cutters

Industries: Production Occupations

Cut, trim, or prepare consumer-sized portions of meat for use or sale in retail establishments.

Starting Salary: $27,500

Median Salary: $37,650

Employment: 136,330

Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters

Industries: Production Occupations

Cut, shape, and assemble wooden articles or set up and operate a variety of woodworking machines, such as power saws, jointers, and mortisers to surface, cut, or shape lumber or to fabricate parts for wood products.

Starting Salary: $30,850

Median Salary: $43,260

Employment: 88,460

Calibration Technologists and Technicians

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Execute or adapt procedures and techniques for calibrating measurement devices, by applying knowledge of measurement science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, and electronics, sometimes under the direction of engineering staff. Determine measurement standard suitability for calibrating measurement devices. May perform preventive maintenance on equipment. May perform corrective actions to address identified calibration problems.

Starting Salary: $42,370

Median Salary: $62,790

Employment: 13,220

Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair and adjust cameras and photographic equipment, including commercial video and motion picture camera equipment.

Starting Salary: $34,710

Median Salary: $46,850

Employment: 2,540

Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Operate television, video, or film camera to record images or scenes for television, video, or film productions.

Starting Salary: $34,420

Median Salary: $61,800

Employment: 23,940

Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Command or supervise operations of ships and water vessels, such as tugboats and ferryboats. Required to hold license issued by U.S. Coast Guard.

Starting Salary: $44,600

Median Salary: $88,730

Employment: 34,520

Cardiologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, treat, manage, and prevent diseases or conditions of the cardiovascular system. May further subspecialize in interventional procedures (e.g., balloon angioplasty and stent placement), echocardiography, or electrophysiology.

Starting Salary: $102,530

Median Salary: $235,000

Employment: 15,190

Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Conduct tests on pulmonary or cardiovascular systems of patients for diagnostic, therapeutic, or research purposes. May conduct or assist in electrocardiograms, cardiac catheterizations, pulmonary functions, lung capacity, and similar tests.

Starting Salary: $36,620

Median Salary: $66,170

Employment: 55,660

Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach occupational, vocational, career, or technical subjects to students at the middle, intermediate, or junior high school level.

Starting Salary: $47,360

Median Salary: $63,860

Employment: 12,210

Career/Technical Education Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach vocational courses intended to provide occupational training below the baccalaureate level in subjects such as construction, mechanics/repair, manufacturing, transportation, or cosmetology, primarily to students who have graduated from or left high school. Teaching takes place in public or private schools whose primary business is academic or vocational education.

Starting Salary: $39,120

Median Salary: $62,060

Employment: 111,180

Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach occupational, vocational, career, or technical subjects to students at the secondary school level.

Starting Salary: $49,420

Median Salary: $65,130

Employment: 90,070

Cargo and Freight Agents

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Expedite and route movement of incoming and outgoing cargo and freight shipments in airline, train, and trucking terminals and shipping docks. Take orders from customers and arrange pickup of freight and cargo for delivery to loading platform. Prepare and examine bills of lading to determine shipping charges and tariffs.

Starting Salary: $36,520

Median Salary: $48,330

Employment: 105,220

Carpenters

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Construct, erect, install, or repair structures and fixtures made of wood and comparable materials, such as concrete forms; building frameworks, including partitions, joists, studding, and rafters; and wood stairways, window and door frames, and hardwood floors. May also install cabinets, siding, drywall, and batt or roll insulation. Includes brattice builders who build doors or brattices (ventilation walls or partitions) in underground passageways.

Starting Salary: $37,440

Median Salary: $56,350

Employment: 700,290

Carpet Installers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Lay and install carpet from rolls or blocks on floors. Install padding and trim flooring materials.

Starting Salary: $31,160

Median Salary: $47,520

Employment: 15,560

Cartographers and Photogrammetrists

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Research, study, and prepare maps and other spatial data in digital or graphic form for one or more purposes, such as legal, social, political, educational, and design purposes. May work with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). May design and evaluate algorithms, data structures, and user interfaces for GIS and mapping systems. May collect, analyze, and interpret geographic information provided by geodetic surveys, aerial photographs, and satellite data.

Starting Salary: $48,660

Median Salary: $76,210

Employment: 12,330

Cashiers

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Receive and disburse money in establishments other than financial institutions. May use electronic scanners, cash registers, or related equipment. May process credit or debit card transactions and validate checks.

Starting Salary: $22,580

Median Salary: $29,720

Employment: 3,298,660

Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Smooth and finish surfaces of poured concrete, such as floors, walks, sidewalks, roads, or curbs using a variety of hand and power tools. Align forms for sidewalks, curbs, or gutters; patch voids; and use saws to cut expansion joints.

Starting Salary: $37,440

Median Salary: $50,720

Employment: 203,560

Chefs and Head Cooks

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Direct and may participate in the preparation, seasoning, and cooking of salads, soups, fish, meats, vegetables, desserts, or other foods. May plan and price menu items, order supplies, and keep records and accounts.

Starting Salary: $36,040

Median Salary: $58,920

Employment: 172,370

Chemical Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design chemical plant equipment and devise processes for manufacturing chemicals and products, such as gasoline, synthetic rubber, plastics, detergents, cement, paper, and pulp, by applying principles and technology of chemistry, physics, and engineering.

Starting Salary: $75,650

Median Salary: $112,100

Employment: 21,140

Chemical Equipment Operators and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or tend equipment to control chemical changes or reactions in the processing of industrial or consumer products. Equipment used includes devulcanizers, steam-jacketed kettles, and reactor vessels.

Starting Salary: $36,200

Median Salary: $51,720

Employment: 120,260

Chemical Plant and System Operators

Industries: Production Occupations

Control or operate entire chemical processes or system of machines.

Starting Salary: $47,650

Median Salary: $80,030

Employment: 17,980

Chemical Technicians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Starting Salary: $38,240

Median Salary: $56,750

Employment: 55,880

Chemistry Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses pertaining to the chemical and physical properties and compositional changes of substances. Work may include providing instruction in the methods of qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching, and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $52,590

Median Salary: $85,810

Employment: 20,210

Chemists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Conduct qualitative and quantitative chemical analyses or experiments in laboratories for quality or process control or to develop new products or knowledge.

Starting Salary: $52,950

Median Salary: $84,680

Employment: 83,530

Chief Executives

Industries: Management Occupations

Determine and formulate policies and provide overall direction of companies or private and public sector organizations within guidelines set up by a board of directors or similar governing body. Plan, direct, or coordinate operational activities at the highest level of management with the help of subordinate executives and staff managers.

Starting Salary: $80,000

Median Salary: $206,680

Employment: 211,230

Chief Sustainability Officers

Industries: Management Occupations

Communicate and coordinate with management, shareholders, customers, and employees to address sustainability issues. Enact or oversee a corporate sustainability strategy.

Starting Salary: $80,000

Median Salary: $206,680

Employment: 211,230

Child, Family, and School Social Workers

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

Provide social services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their families and to maximize the family well-being and the academic functioning of children. May assist parents, arrange adoptions, and find foster homes for abandoned or abused children. In schools, they address such problems as teenage pregnancy, misbehavior, and truancy. May also advise teachers.

Starting Salary: $37,900

Median Salary: $53,940

Employment: 352,160

Childcare Workers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.

Starting Salary: $22,450

Median Salary: $30,370

Employment: 497,450

Chiropractors

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assess, treat, and care for patients by manipulation of spine and musculoskeletal system. May provide spinal adjustment or address sacral or pelvic misalignment.

Starting Salary: $39,960

Median Salary: $76,530

Employment: 41,480

Choreographers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Create new dance routines. Rehearse performance of routines. May direct and stage presentations.

Starting Salary: $30,040

Median Salary: $52,000

Employment: 4,190

Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Apply theory and principles of civil engineering in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of structures and facilities under the direction of engineering staff or physical scientists.

Starting Salary: $39,120

Median Salary: $60,700

Employment: 63,560

Civil Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, and water and sewage systems.

Starting Salary: $63,220

Median Salary: $95,890

Employment: 327,950

Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Review settled claims to determine that payments and settlements are made in accordance with company practices and procedures. Confer with legal counsel on claims requiring litigation. May also settle insurance claims.

Starting Salary: $47,390

Median Salary: $75,050

Employment: 293,780

Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Wash or otherwise clean vehicles, machinery, and other equipment. Use such materials as water, cleaning agents, brushes, cloths, and hoses.

Starting Salary: $24,560

Median Salary: $34,150

Employment: 365,290

Cleaning, Washing, and Metal Pickling Equipment Operators and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or tend machines to wash or clean products, such as barrels or kegs, glass items, tin plate, food, pulp, coal, plastic, or rubber, to remove impurities.

Starting Salary: $31,370

Median Salary: $39,340

Employment: 15,210

Clergy

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

Conduct religious worship and perform other spiritual functions associated with beliefs and practices of religious faith or denomination. Provide spiritual and moral guidance and assistance to members.

Starting Salary: $35,400

Median Salary: $58,920

Employment: 56,640

Climate Change Policy Analysts

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Research and analyze policy developments related to climate change. Make climate-related recommendations for actions such as legislation, awareness campaigns, or fundraising approaches.

Starting Salary: $48,580

Median Salary: $78,980

Employment: 80,730

Clinical and Counseling Psychologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Assess, diagnose, and treat mental and emotional disorders of individuals through observation, interview, and psychological tests. Help individuals with distress or maladjustment understand their problems through their knowledge of case history, interviews with patients, and theory. Provide individual or group counseling services to assist individuals in achieving more effective personal, social, educational, and vocational development and adjustment. May design behavior modification programs and consult with medical personnel regarding the best treatment for patients.

Starting Salary: $48,820

Median Salary: $96,100

Employment: 71,730

Clinical Data Managers

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Apply knowledge of health care and database management to analyze clinical data, and to identify and report trends.

Starting Salary: $61,070

Median Salary: $108,020

Employment: 192,710

Clinical Neuropsychologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Assess and diagnose patients with neurobehavioral problems related to acquired or developmental disorders of the nervous system, such as neurodegenerative disorders, traumatic brain injury, seizure disorders, and learning disabilities. Recommend treatment after diagnosis, such as therapy, medication, or surgery. Assist with evaluation before and after neurosurgical procedures, such as deep brain stimulation.

Starting Salary: $47,450

Median Salary: $117,750

Employment: 14,480

Clinical Nurse Specialists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Direct nursing staff in the provision of patient care in a clinical practice setting, such as a hospital, hospice, clinic, or home. Ensure adherence to established clinical policies, protocols, regulations, and standards.

Starting Salary: $63,720

Median Salary: $86,070

Employment: 3,175,390

Clinical Research Coordinators

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate clinical research projects. Direct the activities of workers engaged in clinical research projects to ensure compliance with protocols and overall clinical objectives. May evaluate and analyze clinical data.

Starting Salary: $77,520

Median Salary: $157,740

Employment: 96,520

Coaches and Scouts

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Instruct or coach groups or individuals in the fundamentals of sports for the primary purpose of competition. Demonstrate techniques and methods of participation. May evaluate athletes' strengths and weaknesses as possible recruits or to improve the athletes' technique to prepare them for competition. Those required to hold teaching certifications should be reported in the appropriate teaching category.

Starting Salary: $27,040

Median Salary: $45,910

Employment: 238,980

Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend spraying or rolling machines to coat or paint any of a wide variety of products, including glassware, cloth, ceramics, metal, plastic, paper, or wood, with lacquer, silver, copper, rubber, varnish, glaze, enamel, oil, or rust-proofing materials. Includes painters of transportation vehicles such as painters in auto body repair facilities.

Starting Salary: $33,300

Median Salary: $45,560

Employment: 155,880

Coil Winders, Tapers, and Finishers

Industries: Production Occupations

Wind wire coils used in electrical components, such as resistors and transformers, and in electrical equipment and instruments, such as field cores, bobbins, armature cores, electrical motors, generators, and control equipment.

Starting Salary: $32,890

Median Salary: $44,890

Employment: 11,900

Coin, Vending, and Amusement Machine Servicers and Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install, service, adjust, or repair coin, vending, or amusement machines including video games, juke boxes, pinball machines, or slot machines.

Starting Salary: $28,840

Median Salary: $44,980

Employment: 36,100

Commercial and Industrial Designers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Design and develop manufactured products, such as cars, home appliances, and children's toys. Combine artistic talent with research on product use, marketing, and materials to create the most functional and appealing product design.

Starting Salary: $46,530

Median Salary: $76,250

Employment: 30,810

Commercial Divers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Work below surface of water, using surface-supplied air or scuba equipment to inspect, repair, remove, or install equipment and structures. May use a variety of power and hand tools, such as drills, sledgehammers, torches, and welding equipment. May conduct tests or experiments, rig explosives, or photograph structures or marine life.

Starting Salary: $39,430

Median Salary: $61,300

Employment: 2,790

Commercial Pilots

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Pilot and navigate the flight of fixed-wing aircraft on nonscheduled air carrier routes, or helicopters. Requires Commercial Pilot certificate. Includes charter pilots with similar certification, and air ambulance and air tour pilots. Excludes regional, national, and international airline pilots.

Starting Salary: $56,260

Median Salary: $113,080

Employment: 52,750

Communications Equipment Operators, All Other

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

All communications equipment operators not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $36,130

Median Salary: $49,310

Employment: 1,380

Communications Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in communications, such as organizational communications, public relations, radio/television broadcasting, and journalism. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $48,060

Median Salary: $79,910

Employment: 28,520

Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

All community and social service specialists not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $34,030

Median Salary: $49,690

Employment: 95,310

Community Health Workers

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

Promote health within a community by assisting individuals to adopt healthy behaviors. Serve as an advocate for the health needs of individuals by assisting community residents in effectively communicating with healthcare providers or social service agencies. Act as liaison or advocate and implement programs that promote, maintain, and improve individual and overall community health. May deliver health-related preventive services such as blood pressure, glaucoma, and hearing screenings. May collect data to help identify community health needs.

Starting Salary: $35,560

Median Salary: $48,200

Employment: 58,550

Compensation and Benefits Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate compensation and benefits activities of an organization.

Starting Salary: $76,550

Median Salary: $136,380

Employment: 18,690

Compensation, Benefits, and Job Analysis Specialists

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Conduct programs of compensation and benefits and job analysis for employer. May specialize in specific areas, such as position classification and pension programs.

Starting Salary: $46,050

Median Salary: $74,530

Employment: 99,850

Compliance Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities of an organization to ensure compliance with ethical or regulatory standards.

Starting Salary: $67,370

Median Salary: $133,560

Employment: 589,750

Compliance Officers

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Examine, evaluate, and investigate eligibility for or conformity with laws and regulations governing contract compliance of licenses and permits, and perform other compliance and enforcement inspection and analysis activities not classified elsewhere.

Starting Salary: $43,790

Median Salary: $75,670

Employment: 383,620

Computer and Information Research Scientists

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Conduct research into fundamental computer and information science as theorists, designers, or inventors. Develop solutions to problems in the field of computer hardware and software.

Starting Salary: $81,450

Median Salary: $145,080

Employment: 35,210

Computer and Information Systems Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as electronic data processing, information systems, systems analysis, and computer programming.

Starting Salary: $101,590

Median Salary: $169,510

Employment: 592,600

Computer Hardware Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Research, design, develop, or test computer or computer-related equipment for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use. May supervise the manufacturing and installation of computer or computer-related equipment and components.

Starting Salary: $81,630

Median Salary: $138,080

Employment: 82,660

Computer Network Architects

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Design and implement computer and information networks, such as local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), intranets, extranets, and other data communications networks. Perform network modeling, analysis, and planning, including analysis of capacity needs for network infrastructures. May also design network and computer security measures. May research and recommend network and data communications hardware and software.

Starting Salary: $77,960

Median Salary: $129,840

Employment: 174,100

Computer Network Support Specialists

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Analyze, test, troubleshoot, and evaluate existing network systems, such as local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), cloud networks, servers, and other data communications networks. Perform network maintenance to ensure networks operate correctly with minimal interruption.

Starting Salary: $45,660

Median Salary: $71,530

Employment: 158,720

Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate computer-controlled tools, machines, or robots to machine or process parts, tools, or other work pieces made of metal, plastic, wood, stone, or other materials. May also set up and maintain equipment.

Starting Salary: $36,380

Median Salary: $48,550

Employment: 187,670

Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Programmers

Industries: Production Occupations

Develop programs to control machining or processing of materials by automatic machine tools, equipment, or systems. May also set up, operate, or maintain equipment.

Starting Salary: $45,980

Median Salary: $63,440

Employment: 28,030

Computer Occupations, All Other

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

All computer occupations not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $49,690

Median Salary: $104,920

Employment: 437,170

Computer Programmers

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Create, modify, and test the code and scripts that allow computer applications to run. Work from specifications drawn up by software and web developers or other individuals. May develop and write computer programs to store, locate, and retrieve specific documents, data, and information.

Starting Salary: $58,950

Median Salary: $99,700

Employment: 120,370

Computer Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in computer science. May specialize in a field of computer science, such as the design and function of computers or operations and research analysis. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $49,770

Median Salary: $96,430

Employment: 36,150

Computer Systems Analysts

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Analyze science, engineering, business, and other data processing problems to develop and implement solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns. Perform systems management and integration functions, improve existing computer systems, and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and schedule limitations. May analyze or recommend commercially available software.

Starting Salary: $63,230

Median Salary: $103,800

Employment: 498,810

Computer Systems Engineers/Architects

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Design and develop solutions to complex applications problems, system administration issues, or network concerns. Perform systems management and integration functions.

Starting Salary: $49,690

Median Salary: $104,920

Employment: 437,170

Computer User Support Specialists

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Provide technical assistance to computer users. Answer questions or resolve computer problems for clients in person, via telephone, or electronically. May provide assistance concerning the use of computer hardware and software, including printing, installation, word processing, electronic mail, and operating systems.

Starting Salary: $37,690

Median Salary: $59,240

Employment: 689,700

Computer, Automated Teller, and Office Machine Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair, maintain, or install computers, word processing systems, automated teller machines, and electronic office machines, such as duplicating and fax machines.

Starting Salary: $33,430

Median Salary: $45,760

Employment: 77,580

Concierges

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Assist patrons at hotel, apartment, or office building with personal services. May take messages; arrange or give advice on transportation, business services, or entertainment; or monitor guest requests for housekeeping and maintenance.

Starting Salary: $29,510

Median Salary: $37,150

Employment: 41,020

Conservation Scientists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Manage, improve, and protect natural resources to maximize their use without damaging the environment. May conduct soil surveys and develop plans to eliminate soil erosion or to protect rangelands. May instruct farmers, agricultural production managers, or ranchers in best ways to use crop rotation, contour plowing, or terracing to conserve soil and water; in the number and kind of livestock and forage plants best suited to particular ranges; and in range and farm improvements, such as fencing and reservoirs for stock watering.

Starting Salary: $42,850

Median Salary: $68,750

Employment: 22,790

Construction and Building Inspectors

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Inspect structures using engineering skills to determine structural soundness and compliance with specifications, building codes, and other regulations. Inspections may be general in nature or may be limited to a specific area, such as electrical systems or plumbing.

Starting Salary: $43,740

Median Salary: $67,700

Employment: 133,640

Construction Laborers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Perform tasks involving physical labor at construction sites. May operate hand and power tools of all types: air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, small mechanical hoists, surveying and measuring equipment, and a variety of other equipment and instruments. May clean and prepare sites, dig trenches, set braces to support the sides of excavations, erect scaffolding, and clean up rubble, debris, and other waste materials. May assist other craft workers.

Starting Salary: $31,510

Median Salary: $45,300

Employment: 1,019,090

Construction Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate, usually through subordinate supervisory personnel, activities concerned with the construction and maintenance of structures, facilities, and systems. Participate in the conceptual development of a construction project and oversee its organization, scheduling, budgeting, and implementation. Includes managers in specialized construction fields, such as carpentry or plumbing.

Starting Salary: $64,480

Median Salary: $104,900

Employment: 329,190

Continuous Mining Machine Operators

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Operate self-propelled mining machines that rip coal, metal and nonmetal ores, rock, stone, or sand from the mine face and load it onto conveyors, shuttle cars, or trucks in a continuous operation.

Starting Salary: $40,120

Median Salary: $61,420

Employment: 15,700

Control and Valve Installers and Repairers, Except Mechanical Door

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install, repair, and maintain mechanical regulating and controlling devices, such as electric meters, gas regulators, thermostats, safety and flow valves, and other mechanical governors.

Starting Salary: $38,820

Median Salary: $70,100

Employment: 47,780

Conveyor Operators and Tenders

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Control or tend conveyors or conveyor systems that move materials or products to and from stockpiles, processing stations, departments, or vehicles. May control speed and routing of materials or products.

Starting Salary: $32,770

Median Salary: $39,260

Employment: 24,660

Cooks, All Other

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

All cooks not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $26,720

Median Salary: $35,920

Employment: 18,650

Cooks, Fast Food

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Prepare and cook food in a fast food restaurant with a limited menu. Duties of these cooks are limited to preparation of a few basic items and normally involve operating large-volume single-purpose cooking equipment.

Starting Salary: $21,800

Median Salary: $29,260

Employment: 673,490

Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Prepare and cook large quantities of food for institutions, such as schools, hospitals, or cafeterias.

Starting Salary: $25,290

Median Salary: $35,320

Employment: 435,640

Cooks, Private Household

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Prepare meals in private homes. Includes personal chefs.

Starting Salary: $27,140

Median Salary: $42,590

Employment: 740

Cooks, Restaurant

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Prepare, season, and cook dishes such as soups, meats, vegetables, or desserts in restaurants. May order supplies, keep records and accounts, price items on menu, or plan menu.

Starting Salary: $26,980

Median Salary: $35,780

Employment: 1,412,350

Cooks, Short Order

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Prepare and cook to order a variety of foods that require only a short preparation time. May take orders from customers and serve patrons at counters or tables.

Starting Salary: $23,320

Median Salary: $34,130

Employment: 126,370

Cooling and Freezing Equipment Operators and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or tend equipment such as cooling and freezing units, refrigerators, batch freezers, and freezing tunnels, to cool or freeze products, food, blood plasma, and chemicals.

Starting Salary: $31,370

Median Salary: $42,420

Employment: 6,500

Coroners

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Direct activities such as autopsies, pathological and toxicological analyses, and inquests relating to the investigation of deaths occurring within a legal jurisdiction to determine cause of death or to fix responsibility for accidental, violent, or unexplained deaths.

Starting Salary: $43,790

Median Salary: $75,670

Employment: 383,620

Correctional Officers and Jailers

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Guard inmates in penal or rehabilitative institutions in accordance with established regulations and procedures. May guard prisoners in transit between jail, courtroom, prison, or other point. Includes deputy sheriffs and police who spend the majority of their time guarding prisoners in correctional institutions.

Starting Salary: $38,340

Median Salary: $53,300

Employment: 351,420

Correspondence Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Compose letters or electronic correspondence in reply to requests for merchandise, damage claims, credit and other information, delinquent accounts, incorrect billings, or unsatisfactory services. Duties may include gathering data to formulate reply and preparing correspondence.

Starting Salary: $31,200

Median Salary: $42,120

Employment: 4,650

Cost Estimators

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Prepare cost estimates for product manufacturing, construction projects, or services to aid management in bidding on or determining price of product or service. May specialize according to particular service performed or type of product manufactured.

Starting Salary: $44,820

Median Salary: $74,740

Employment: 220,970

Costume Attendants

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Select, fit, and take care of costumes for cast members, and aid entertainers. May assist with multiple costume changes during performances.

Starting Salary: $33,430

Median Salary: $52,370

Employment: 6,300

Counselors, All Other

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

All counselors not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $33,300

Median Salary: $46,130

Employment: 35,580

Counter and Rental Clerks

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Receive orders, generally in person, for repairs, rentals, and services. May describe available options, compute cost, and accept payment.

Starting Salary: $27,330

Median Salary: $37,400

Employment: 390,300

Couriers and Messengers

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Pick up and deliver messages, documents, packages, and other items between offices or departments within an establishment or directly to other business concerns, traveling by foot, bicycle, motorcycle, automobile, or public conveyance.

Starting Salary: $28,040

Median Salary: $36,710

Employment: 72,010

Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Use verbatim methods and equipment to capture, store, retrieve, and transcribe pretrial and trial proceedings or other information. Includes stenocaptioners who operate computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide captions of live or prerecorded broadcasts for hearing-impaired viewers.

Starting Salary: $35,890

Median Salary: $63,940

Employment: 12,390

Court, Municipal, and License Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Perform clerical duties for courts of law, municipalities, or governmental licensing agencies and bureaus. May prepare docket of cases to be called; secure information for judges and court; prepare draft agendas or bylaws for town or city council; answer official correspondence; keep fiscal records and accounts; issue licenses or permits; and record data, administer tests, or collect fees.

Starting Salary: $32,190

Median Salary: $46,110

Employment: 157,960

Craft Artists

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Create or reproduce handmade objects for sale and exhibition using a variety of techniques, such as welding, weaving, pottery, and needlecraft.

Starting Salary: $21,010

Median Salary: $36,600

Employment: 5,830

Crane and Tower Operators

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Operate mechanical boom and cable or tower and cable equipment to lift and move materials, machines, or products in many directions.

Starting Salary: $39,200

Median Salary: $64,690

Employment: 42,260

Credit Analysts

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Analyze credit data and financial statements of individuals or firms to determine the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending money. Prepare reports with credit information for use in decisionmaking.

Starting Salary: $50,060

Median Salary: $79,420

Employment: 73,200

Credit Authorizers, Checkers, and Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Authorize credit charges against customers' accounts. Investigate history and credit standing of individuals or business establishments applying for credit. May interview applicants to obtain personal and financial data, determine credit worthiness, process applications, and notify customers of acceptance or rejection of credit.

Starting Salary: $32,950

Median Salary: $48,000

Employment: 14,290

Credit Counselors

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Advise and educate individuals or organizations on acquiring and managing debt. May provide guidance in determining the best type of loan and explain loan requirements or restrictions. May help develop debt management plans or student financial aid packages. May advise on credit issues, or provide budget, mortgage, bankruptcy, or student financial aid counseling.

Starting Salary: $37,460

Median Salary: $48,570

Employment: 27,950

Crematory Operators

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Operate crematory equipment to reduce human or animal remains to bone fragments in accordance with state and local regulations. Duties may include preparing the body for cremation and performing general maintenance on crematory equipment. May use traditional flame-based cremation, calcination, or alkaline hydrolysis.

Starting Salary: $31,200

Median Salary: $41,670

Employment: 3,220

Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in criminal justice, corrections, and law enforcement administration. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $46,320

Median Salary: $69,030

Employment: 13,390

Critical Care Nurses

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Provide specialized nursing care for patients in critical or coronary care units.

Starting Salary: $63,720

Median Salary: $86,070

Employment: 3,175,390

Crossing Guards and Flaggers

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Guide or control vehicular or pedestrian traffic at such places as streets, schools, railroad crossings, or construction sites.

Starting Salary: $28,400

Median Salary: $36,370

Employment: 90,780

Crushing, Grinding, and Polishing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend machines to crush, grind, or polish materials, such as coal, glass, grain, stone, food, or rubber.

Starting Salary: $32,650

Median Salary: $44,510

Employment: 26,210

Curators

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Administer collections, such as artwork, collectibles, historic items, or scientific specimens of museums or other institutions. May conduct instructional, research, or public service activities of institution.

Starting Salary: $38,000

Median Salary: $61,750

Employment: 12,510

Customer Service Representatives

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Interact with customers to provide basic or scripted information in response to routine inquiries about products and services. May handle and resolve general complaints. Excludes individuals whose duties are primarily installation, sales, repair, and technical support.

Starting Salary: $29,560

Median Salary: $39,680

Employment: 2,858,710

Customs and Border Protection Officers

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Investigate and inspect persons, common carriers, goods, and merchandise, arriving in or departing from the United States or between states to detect violations of immigration and customs laws and regulations.

Starting Salary: $45,200

Median Salary: $72,280

Employment: 646,310

Customs Brokers

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Prepare customs documentation and ensure that shipments meet all applicable laws to facilitate the import and export of goods. Determine and track duties and taxes payable and process payments on behalf of client. Sign documents under a power of attorney. Represent clients in meetings with customs officials and apply for duty refunds and tariff reclassifications. Coordinate transportation and storage of imported goods.

Starting Salary: $43,790

Median Salary: $75,670

Employment: 383,620

Cutters and Trimmers, Hand

Industries: Production Occupations

Use hand tools or hand-held power tools to cut and trim a variety of manufactured items, such as carpet, fabric, stone, glass, or rubber.

Starting Salary: $28,770

Median Salary: $37,040

Employment: 7,220

Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut or slice materials, such as glass, stone, cork, rubber, tobacco, food, paper, or insulating material.

Starting Salary: $32,760

Median Salary: $44,310

Employment: 52,720

Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend machines to saw, cut, shear, slit, punch, crimp, notch, bend, or straighten metal or plastic material.

Starting Salary: $32,640

Median Salary: $42,400

Employment: 179,230

Dancers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Perform dances. May perform on stage, for broadcasting, or for video recording.

Starting Salary: $29,432

Median Salary: $51,896

Employment: 11,510

Data Entry Keyers

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Operate data entry device, such as keyboard or photo composing perforator. Duties may include verifying data and preparing materials for printing.

Starting Salary: $28,250

Median Salary: $37,790

Employment: 154,230

Data Scientists

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Develop and implement a set of techniques or analytics applications to transform raw data into meaningful information using data-oriented programming languages and visualization software. Apply data mining, data modeling, natural language processing, and machine learning to extract and analyze information from large structured and unstructured datasets. Visualize, interpret, and report data findings. May create dynamic data reports.

Starting Salary: $61,070

Median Salary: $108,020

Employment: 192,710

Data Warehousing Specialists

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Design, model, or implement corporate data warehousing activities. Program and configure warehouses of database information and provide support to warehouse users.

Starting Salary: $76,000

Median Salary: $134,700

Employment: 59,920

Database Administrators

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Administer, test, and implement computer databases, applying knowledge of database management systems. Coordinate changes to computer databases. Identify, investigate, and resolve database performance issues, database capacity, and database scalability. May plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard computer databases.

Starting Salary: $54,320

Median Salary: $101,510

Employment: 76,140

Database Architects

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Design strategies for enterprise databases, data warehouse systems, and multidimensional networks. Set standards for database operations, programming, query processes, and security. Model, design, and construct large relational databases or data warehouses. Create and optimize data models for warehouse infrastructure and workflow. Integrate new systems with existing warehouse structure and refine system performance and functionality.

Starting Salary: $76,000

Median Salary: $134,700

Employment: 59,920

Demonstrators and Product Promoters

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Demonstrate merchandise and answer questions for the purpose of creating public interest in buying the product. May sell demonstrated merchandise.

Starting Salary: $29,460

Median Salary: $36,970

Employment: 50,790

Dental Assistants

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Perform limited clinical duties under the direction of a dentist. Clinical duties may include equipment preparation and sterilization, preparing patients for treatment, assisting the dentist during treatment, and providing patients with instructions for oral healthcare procedures. May perform administrative duties such as scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding information for insurance purposes.

Starting Salary: $35,470

Median Salary: $46,540

Employment: 370,690

Dental Hygienists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Administer oral hygiene care to patients. Assess patient oral hygiene problems or needs and maintain health records. Advise patients on oral health maintenance and disease prevention. May provide advanced care such as providing fluoride treatment or administering topical anesthesia.

Starting Salary: $65,110

Median Salary: $87,530

Employment: 211,630

Dental Laboratory Technicians

Industries: Production Occupations

Construct and repair full or partial dentures or dental appliances.

Starting Salary: $33,940

Median Salary: $47,690

Employment: 34,190

Dentists, All Other Specialists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

All dentists not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $107,330

Median Salary: $227,690

Employment: 5,920

Dentists, General

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Examine, diagnose, and treat diseases, injuries, and malformations of teeth and gums. May treat diseases of nerve, pulp, and other dental tissues affecting oral hygiene and retention of teeth. May fit dental appliances or provide preventive care.

Starting Salary: $80,820

Median Salary: $166,300

Employment: 121,640

Dermatologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose and treat diseases relating to the skin, hair, and nails. May perform both medical and dermatological surgery functions.

Starting Salary: $103,000

Median Salary: $180,750

Employment: 12,040

Derrick Operators, Oil and Gas

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Rig derrick equipment and operate pumps to circulate mud or fluid through drill hole.

Starting Salary: $42,230

Median Salary: $58,210

Employment: 11,510

Designers, All Other

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

All designers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $36,160

Median Salary: $67,500

Employment: 9,880

Desktop Publishers

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Format typescript and graphic elements using computer software to produce publication-ready material.

Starting Salary: $31,880

Median Salary: $51,290

Employment: 5,220

Detectives and Criminal Investigators

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Conduct investigations related to suspected violations of federal, state, or local laws to prevent or solve crimes.

Starting Salary: $50,670

Median Salary: $91,100

Employment: 106,730

Diagnostic Medical Sonographers

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Produce ultrasonic recordings of internal organs for use by physicians. Includes vascular technologists.

Starting Salary: $63,680

Median Salary: $84,470

Employment: 82,780

Dietetic Technicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assist in the provision of food service and nutritional programs, under the supervision of a dietitian. May plan and produce meals based on established guidelines, teach principles of food and nutrition, or counsel individuals.

Starting Salary: $27,670

Median Salary: $36,520

Employment: 24,240

Dietitians and Nutritionists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Plan and conduct food service or nutritional programs to assist in the promotion of health and control of disease. May supervise activities of a department providing quantity food services, counsel individuals, or conduct nutritional research.

Starting Salary: $44,910

Median Salary: $69,680

Employment: 73,860

Digital Forensics Analysts

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Conduct investigations on computer-based crimes establishing documentary or physical evidence, such as digital media and logs associated with cyber intrusion incidents. Analyze digital evidence and investigate computer security incidents to derive information in support of system and network vulnerability mitigation. Preserve and present computer-related evidence in support of criminal, fraud, counterintelligence, or law enforcement investigations.

Starting Salary: $49,690

Median Salary: $104,920

Employment: 437,170

Dining Room and Cafeteria Attendants and Bartender Helpers

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Facilitate food service. Clean tables; remove dirty dishes; replace soiled table linens; set tables; replenish supply of clean linens, silverware, glassware, and dishes; supply service bar with food; and serve items such as water, condiments, and coffee to patrons.

Starting Salary: $21,490

Median Salary: $31,180

Employment: 483,390

Directors, Religious Activities and Education

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

Coordinate or design programs and conduct outreach to promote the religious education or activities of a denominational group. May provide counseling, guidance, and leadership relative to marital, health, financial, and religious problems.

Starting Salary: $32,030

Median Salary: $50,140

Employment: 23,270

Disc Jockeys, Except Radio

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Play prerecorded music for live audiences at venues or events such as clubs, parties, or wedding receptions. May use techniques such as mixing, cutting, or sampling to manipulate recordings. May also perform as emcee (master of ceremonies).

Starting Salary: $23,046

Median Salary: $41,600

Employment: 7,190

Dishwashers

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Clean dishes, kitchen, food preparation equipment, or utensils.

Starting Salary: $22,880

Median Salary: $31,200

Employment: 463,940

Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Schedule and dispatch workers, work crews, equipment, or service vehicles for conveyance of materials, freight, or passengers, or for normal installation, service, or emergency repairs rendered outside the place of business. Duties may include using radio, telephone, or computer to transmit assignments and compiling statistics and reports on work progress.

Starting Salary: $32,110

Median Salary: $46,860

Employment: 206,090

Document Management Specialists

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Implement and administer enterprise-wide document management systems and related procedures that allow organizations to capture, store, retrieve, share, and destroy electronic records and documents.

Starting Salary: $49,690

Median Salary: $104,920

Employment: 437,170

Door-to-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Sell goods or services door-to-door or on the street.

Starting Salary: $22,140

Median Salary: $34,910

Employment: 6,220

Drafters, All Other

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

All drafters not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $39,000

Median Salary: $59,260

Employment: 16,580

Dredge Operators

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Operate dredge to remove sand, gravel, or other materials in order to excavate and maintain navigable channels in waterways.

Starting Salary: $37,870

Median Salary: $50,440

Employment: 940

Drilling and Boring Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend drilling machines to drill, bore, ream, mill, or countersink metal or plastic work pieces.

Starting Salary: $34,550

Median Salary: $44,620

Employment: 5,740

Driver/Sales Workers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Drive truck or other vehicle over established routes or within an established territory and sell or deliver goods, such as food products, including restaurant take-out items, or pick up or deliver items such as commercial laundry. May also take orders, collect payment, or stock merchandise at point of delivery.

Starting Salary: $20,800

Median Salary: $35,420

Employment: 463,120

Drywall and Ceiling Tile Installers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Apply plasterboard or other wallboard to ceilings or interior walls of buildings. Apply or mount acoustical tiles or blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing materials to ceilings and walls of buildings to reduce or reflect sound. Materials may be of decorative quality. Includes lathers who fasten wooden, metal, or rockboard lath to walls, ceilings, or partitions of buildings to provide support base for plaster, fireproofing, or acoustical material.

Starting Salary: $36,730

Median Salary: $55,700

Employment: 90,860

Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Operate a variety of drills such as rotary, churn, and pneumatic to tap subsurface water and salt deposits, to remove core samples during mineral exploration or soil testing, and to facilitate the use of explosives in mining or construction. Includes horizontal and earth boring machine operators.

Starting Salary: $40,560

Median Salary: $56,660

Employment: 18,010

Economics Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in economics. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $58,060

Median Salary: $115,300

Employment: 12,210

Economists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Conduct research, prepare reports, or formulate plans to address economic problems related to the production and distribution of goods and services or monetary and fiscal policy. May collect and process economic and statistical data using sampling techniques and econometric methods.

Starting Salary: $62,520

Median Salary: $115,730

Employment: 16,420

Editors

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Plan, coordinate, revise, or edit written material. May review proposals and drafts for possible publication.

Starting Salary: $38,790

Median Salary: $75,020

Employment: 95,700

Education Administrators, All Other

Industries: Management Occupations

All education administrators not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $49,470

Median Salary: $88,460

Employment: 50,690

Education Administrators, Kindergarten through Secondary

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate the academic, administrative, or auxiliary activities of kindergarten, elementary, or secondary schools.

Starting Salary: $70,050

Median Salary: $103,460

Employment: 302,580

Education Administrators, Postsecondary

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate student instruction, administration, and services, as well as other research and educational activities, at postsecondary institutions, including universities, colleges, and junior and community colleges.

Starting Salary: $62,970

Median Salary: $102,610

Employment: 167,270

Education and Childcare Administrators, Preschool and Daycare

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate academic or nonacademic activities of preschools or childcare centers and programs, including before- and after-school care.

Starting Salary: $36,550

Median Salary: $54,290

Employment: 64,090

Education Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses pertaining to education, such as counseling, curriculum, guidance, instruction, teacher education, and teaching English as a second language. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $39,670

Median Salary: $73,240

Employment: 60,860

Educational Instruction and Library Workers, All Other

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

All educational instruction and library workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $25,090

Median Salary: $49,800

Employment: 113,490

Educational, Guidance, and Career Counselors and Advisors

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

Advise and assist students and provide educational and vocational guidance services.

Starting Salary: $40,140

Median Salary: $61,710

Employment: 327,660

Electric Motor, Power Tool, and Related Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair, maintain, or install electric motors, wiring, or switches.

Starting Salary: $34,590

Median Salary: $49,230

Employment: 16,010

Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Apply electrical and electronic theory and related knowledge, usually under the direction of engineering staff, to design, build, repair, adjust, and modify electrical components, circuitry, controls, and machinery for subsequent evaluation and use by engineering staff in making engineering design decisions.

Starting Salary: $46,420

Median Salary: $72,800

Employment: 97,420

Electrical and Electronics Drafters

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Prepare wiring diagrams, circuit board assembly diagrams, and layout drawings used for the manufacture, installation, or repair of electrical equipment.

Starting Salary: $46,470

Median Salary: $69,260

Employment: 20,680

Electrical and Electronics Installers and Repairers, Transportation Equipment

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install, adjust, or maintain mobile electronics communication equipment, including sound, sonar, security, navigation, and surveillance systems on trains, watercraft, or other mobile equipment.

Starting Salary: $46,720

Median Salary: $79,160

Employment: 7,920

Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair, test, adjust, or install electronic equipment, such as industrial controls, transmitters, and antennas.

Starting Salary: $41,600

Median Salary: $66,680

Employment: 58,320

Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Powerhouse, Substation, and Relay

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Inspect, test, repair, or maintain electrical equipment in generating stations, substations, and in-service relays.

Starting Salary: $58,890

Median Salary: $96,600

Employment: 24,790

Electrical Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Research, design, develop, test, or supervise the manufacturing and installation of electrical equipment, components, or systems for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use.

Starting Salary: $69,320

Median Salary: $106,950

Employment: 185,430

Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install or repair cables or wires used in electrical power or distribution systems. May erect poles and light or heavy duty transmission towers.

Starting Salary: $48,220

Median Salary: $85,420

Employment: 120,170

Electricians

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Install, maintain, and repair electrical wiring, equipment, and fixtures. Ensure that work is in accordance with relevant codes. May install or service street lights, intercom systems, or electrical control systems.

Starting Salary: $38,470

Median Salary: $61,590

Employment: 712,580

Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Operate, test, maintain, or adjust unmanned, automated, servomechanical, or electromechanical equipment. May operate unmanned submarines, aircraft, or other equipment to observe or record visual information at sites such as oil rigs, crop fields, buildings, or for similar infrastructure, deep ocean exploration, or hazardous waste removal. May assist engineers in testing and designing robotics equipment.

Starting Salary: $44,210

Median Salary: $65,080

Employment: 15,360

Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install, diagnose, or repair communications, sound, security, or navigation equipment in motor vehicles.

Starting Salary: $32,380

Median Salary: $45,570

Employment: 8,900

Electronics Engineers, Except Computer

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Research, design, develop, or test electronic components and systems for commercial, industrial, military, or scientific use employing knowledge of electronic theory and materials properties. Design electronic circuits and components for use in fields such as telecommunications, aerospace guidance and propulsion control, acoustics, or instruments and controls.

Starting Salary: $76,700

Median Salary: $119,200

Employment: 96,410

Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach academic and social skills to students at the elementary school level.

Starting Salary: $46,960

Median Salary: $63,680

Employment: 1,410,070

Elevator and Escalator Installers and Repairers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Assemble, install, repair, or maintain electric or hydraulic freight or passenger elevators, escalators, or dumbwaiters.

Starting Salary: $51,960

Median Salary: $102,420

Employment: 23,990

Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Determine eligibility of persons applying to receive assistance from government programs and agency resources, such as welfare, unemployment benefits, social security, and public housing.

Starting Salary: $36,720

Median Salary: $50,270

Employment: 150,190

Embalmers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.

Starting Salary: $35,360

Median Salary: $54,090

Employment: 3,380

Emergency Management Directors

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan and direct disaster response or crisis management activities, provide disaster preparedness training, and prepare emergency plans and procedures for natural (e.g., hurricanes, floods, earthquakes), wartime, or technological (e.g., nuclear power plant emergencies or hazardous materials spills) disasters or hostage situations.

Starting Salary: $50,340

Median Salary: $83,960

Employment: 11,910

Emergency Medical Technicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assess injuries and illnesses and administer basic emergency medical care. May transport injured or sick persons to medical facilities.

Starting Salary: $29,910

Median Salary: $38,930

Employment: 167,040

Emergency Medicine Physicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Make immediate medical decisions and act to prevent death or further disability. Provide immediate recognition, evaluation, care, stabilization, and disposition of patients. May direct emergency medical staff in an emergency department.

Starting Salary: $127,350

Median Salary: $224,540

Employment: 35,100

Endoscopy Technicians

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Maintain a sterile field to provide support for physicians and nurses during endoscopy procedures. Prepare and maintain instruments and equipment. May obtain specimens.

Starting Salary: $31,630

Median Salary: $44,490

Employment: 102,230

Energy Auditors

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Conduct energy audits of buildings, building systems, or process systems. May also conduct investment grade audits of buildings or systems.

Starting Salary: $43,740

Median Salary: $67,700

Employment: 133,640

Energy Engineers, Except Wind and Solar

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design, develop, or evaluate energy-related projects or programs to reduce energy costs or improve energy efficiency during the designing, building, or remodeling stages of construction. May specialize in electrical systems; heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems; green buildings; lighting; air quality; or energy procurement.

Starting Salary: $62,130

Median Salary: $111,970

Employment: 150,990

Engine and Other Machine Assemblers

Industries: Production Occupations

Construct, assemble, or rebuild machines, such as engines, turbines, and similar equipment used in such industries as construction, extraction, textiles, and paper manufacturing.

Starting Salary: $36,250

Median Salary: $50,270

Employment: 47,960

Engineering Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses pertaining to the application of physical laws and principles of engineering for the development of machines, materials, instruments, processes, and services. Includes teachers of subjects such as chemical, civil, electrical, industrial, mechanical, mineral, and petroleum engineering. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $60,250

Median Salary: $106,910

Employment: 38,370

Engineering Technologists and Technicians, Except Drafters, All Other

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

All engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters, not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $42,900

Median Salary: $73,500

Employment: 66,200

Engineers, All Other

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

All engineers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $62,130

Median Salary: $111,970

Employment: 150,990

English Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in English language and literature, including linguistics and comparative literature. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $48,090

Median Salary: $78,130

Employment: 57,600

Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

All entertainers and performers, sports and related workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $24,544

Median Salary: $43,493

Employment: 14,720

Entertainment and Recreation Managers, Except Gambling

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate entertainment and recreational activities and operations of a recreational facility, including cruise ships and parks.

Starting Salary: $42,730

Median Salary: $73,460

Employment: 29,690

Entertainment Attendants and Related Workers, All Other

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

All entertainment attendants and related workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $22,170

Median Salary: $33,280

Employment: 7,320

Environmental Compliance Inspectors

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Inspect and investigate sources of pollution to protect the public and environment and ensure conformance with Federal, State, and local regulations and ordinances.

Starting Salary: $43,790

Median Salary: $75,670

Employment: 383,620

Environmental Economists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Conduct economic analysis related to environmental protection and use of the natural environment, such as water, air, land, and renewable energy resources. Evaluate and quantify benefits, costs, incentives, and impacts of alternative options using economic principles and statistical techniques.

Starting Salary: $62,520

Median Salary: $115,730

Employment: 16,420

Environmental Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Apply theory and principles of environmental engineering to modify, test, and operate equipment and devices used in the prevention, control, and remediation of environmental problems, including waste treatment and site remediation, under the direction of engineering staff or scientists. May assist in the development of environmental remediation devices.

Starting Salary: $36,150

Median Salary: $54,000

Employment: 13,780

Environmental Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Research, design, plan, or perform engineering duties in the prevention, control, and remediation of environmental hazards using various engineering disciplines. Work may include waste treatment, site remediation, or pollution control technology.

Starting Salary: $63,370

Median Salary: $100,090

Employment: 39,880

Environmental Restoration Planners

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Collaborate with field and biology staff to oversee the implementation of restoration projects and to develop new products. Process and synthesize complex scientific data into practical strategies for restoration, monitoring or management.

Starting Salary: $48,580

Median Salary: $78,980

Employment: 80,730

Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Perform laboratory and field tests to monitor the environment and investigate sources of pollution, including those that affect health, under the direction of an environmental scientist, engineer, or other specialist. May collect samples of gases, soil, water, and other materials for testing.

Starting Salary: $35,800

Median Salary: $50,660

Employment: 32,390

Environmental Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in environmental science. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $51,280

Median Salary: $88,410

Employment: 7,120

Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Conduct research or perform investigation for the purpose of identifying, abating, or eliminating sources of pollutants or hazards that affect either the environment or public health. Using knowledge of various scientific disciplines, may collect, synthesize, study, report, and recommend action based on data derived from measurements or observations of air, food, soil, water, and other sources.

Starting Salary: $48,580

Median Salary: $78,980

Employment: 80,730

Epidemiologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Investigate and describe the determinants and distribution of disease, disability, or health outcomes. May develop the means for prevention and control.

Starting Salary: $54,950

Median Salary: $81,390

Employment: 10,230

Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Monitor and evaluate compliance with equal opportunity laws, guidelines, and policies to ensure that employment practices and contracting arrangements give equal opportunity without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.

Starting Salary: $43,790

Median Salary: $75,670

Employment: 383,620

Etchers and Engravers

Industries: Production Occupations

Engrave or etch metal, wood, rubber, or other materials. Includes such workers as etcher-circuit processors, pantograph engravers, and silk screen etchers.

Starting Salary: $29,120

Median Salary: $40,040

Employment: 8,140

Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Operate or tend machinery at surface mining site, equipped with scoops, shovels, or buckets to excavate and load loose materials.

Starting Salary: $38,080

Median Salary: $50,050

Employment: 32,630

Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, and handling information requests, as well as performing routine administrative functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings. May also train and supervise lower-level clerical staff.

Starting Salary: $45,910

Median Salary: $70,310

Employment: 483,570

Exercise Physiologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assess, plan, or implement fitness programs that include exercise or physical activities such as those designed to improve cardiorespiratory function, body composition, muscular strength, muscular endurance, or flexibility.

Starting Salary: $35,460

Median Salary: $54,860

Employment: 8,060

Exercise Trainers and Group Fitness Instructors

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Instruct or coach groups or individuals in exercise activities for the primary purpose of personal fitness. Demonstrate techniques and form, observe participants, and explain to them corrective measures necessary to improve their skills. Develop and implement individualized approaches to exercise.

Starting Salary: $26,840

Median Salary: $46,480

Employment: 279,450

Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Place and detonate explosives to demolish structures or to loosen, remove, or displace earth, rock, or other materials. May perform specialized handling, storage, and accounting procedures.

Starting Salary: $42,670

Median Salary: $61,590

Employment: 4,610

Extraction Workers, All Other

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

All extraction workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $34,180

Median Salary: $49,580

Employment: 7,120

Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend machines to extrude or draw thermoplastic or metal materials into tubes, rods, hoses, wire, bars, or structural shapes.

Starting Salary: $32,050

Median Salary: $44,390

Employment: 63,370

Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend machines that extrude and form continuous filaments from synthetic materials, such as liquid polymer, rayon, and fiberglass.

Starting Salary: $33,510

Median Salary: $44,030

Employment: 14,520

Extruding, Forming, Pressing, and Compacting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend machines, such as glass-forming machines, plodder machines, and tuber machines, to shape and form products such as glassware, food, rubber, soap, brick, tile, clay, wax, tobacco, or cosmetics.

Starting Salary: $32,100

Median Salary: $42,670

Employment: 57,080

Fabric and Apparel Patternmakers

Industries: Production Occupations

Draw and construct sets of precision master fabric patterns or layouts. May also mark and cut fabrics and apparel.

Starting Salary: $31,780

Median Salary: $62,510

Employment: 2,670

Facilities Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate operations and functionalities of facilities and buildings. May include surrounding grounds or multiple facilities of an organization's campus.

Starting Salary: $60,840

Median Salary: $102,340

Employment: 131,400

Fallers

Industries: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

Use axes or chainsaws to fell trees using knowledge of tree characteristics and cutting techniques to control direction of fall and minimize tree damage.

Starting Salary: $32,920

Median Salary: $53,170

Employment: 4,800

Family and Consumer Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in childcare, family relations, finance, nutrition, and related subjects pertaining to home management. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $48,410

Median Salary: $78,410

Employment: 2,660

Family Medicine Physicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, treat, and provide preventive care to individuals and families across the lifespan. May refer patients to specialists when needed for further diagnosis or treatment.

Starting Salary: $68,890

Median Salary: $224,640

Employment: 112,010

Farm and Home Management Educators

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Instruct and advise individuals and families engaged in agriculture, agricultural-related processes, or home management activities. Demonstrate procedures and apply research findings to advance agricultural and home management activities. May develop educational outreach programs. May instruct on either agricultural issues such as agricultural processes and techniques, pest management, and food safety, or on home management issues such as budgeting, nutrition, and child development.

Starting Salary: $36,710

Median Salary: $59,770

Employment: 8,110

Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul farm machinery and vehicles, such as tractors, harvesters, dairy equipment, and irrigation systems.

Starting Salary: $34,870

Median Salary: $49,210

Employment: 36,830

Farm Labor Contractors

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Recruit and hire seasonal or temporary agricultural laborers. May transport, house, and provide meals for workers.

Starting Salary: $26,700

Median Salary: $45,730

Employment: 460

Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate the management or operation of farms, ranches, greenhouses, aquacultural operations, nurseries, timber tracts, or other agricultural establishments. May hire, train, and supervise farm workers or contract for services to carry out the day-to-day activities of the managed operation. May engage in or supervise planting, cultivating, harvesting, and financial and marketing activities.

Starting Salary: $47,800

Median Salary: $83,770

Employment: 6,150

Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

Industries: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities.

Starting Salary: $30,590

Median Salary: $34,470

Employment: 258,730

Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

Industries: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

Attend to live farm, ranch, open range or aquacultural animals that may include cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses and other equines, poultry, rabbits, finfish, shellfish, and bees. Attend to animals produced for animal products, such as meat, fur, skins, feathers, eggs, milk, and honey. Duties may include feeding, watering, herding, grazing, milking, castrating, branding, de-beaking, weighing, catching, and loading animals. May maintain records on animals; examine animals to detect diseases and injuries; assist in birth deliveries; and administer medications, vaccinations, or insecticides as appropriate. May clean and maintain animal housing areas. Includes workers who shear wool from sheep and collect eggs in hatcheries.

Starting Salary: $25,500

Median Salary: $35,120

Employment: 32,590

Fashion Designers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Design clothing and accessories. Create original designs or adapt fashion trends.

Starting Salary: $37,090

Median Salary: $79,290

Employment: 19,940

Fast Food and Counter Workers

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Perform duties such as taking orders and serving food and beverages. Serve customers at counter or from a steam table. May take payment. May prepare food and beverages.

Starting Salary: $22,190

Median Salary: $29,540

Employment: 3,676,580

Fence Erectors

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Erect and repair fences and fence gates, using hand and power tools.

Starting Salary: $32,120

Median Salary: $44,410

Employment: 21,470

Fiberglass Laminators and Fabricators

Industries: Production Occupations

Laminate layers of fiberglass on molds to form boat decks and hulls, bodies for golf carts, automobiles, or other products.

Starting Salary: $31,400

Median Salary: $40,200

Employment: 20,380

File Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

File correspondence, cards, invoices, receipts, and other records in alphabetical or numerical order or according to the filing system used. Locate and remove material from file when requested.

Starting Salary: $27,040

Median Salary: $38,130

Employment: 82,290

Film and Video Editors

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Edit moving images on film, video, or other media. May work with a producer or director to organize images for final production. May edit or synchronize soundtracks with images.

Starting Salary: $38,990

Median Salary: $66,600

Employment: 29,240

Financial and Investment Analysts

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Conduct quantitative analyses of information involving investment programs or financial data of public or private institutions, including valuation of businesses.

Starting Salary: $60,830

Median Salary: $99,010

Employment: 325,220

Financial Clerks, All Other

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

All financial clerks not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $36,800

Median Salary: $49,940

Employment: 44,520

Financial Examiners

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Enforce or ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing financial and securities institutions and financial and real estate transactions. May examine, verify, or authenticate records.

Starting Salary: $49,710

Median Salary: $84,300

Employment: 63,440

Financial Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate accounting, investing, banking, insurance, securities, and other financial activities of a branch, office, or department of an establishment.

Starting Salary: $82,870

Median Salary: $156,100

Employment: 787,340

Financial Quantitative Analysts

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Develop quantitative techniques to inform securities investing, equities investing, pricing, or valuation of financial instruments. Develop mathematical or statistical models for risk management, asset optimization, pricing, or relative value analysis.

Starting Salary: $43,510

Median Salary: $78,310

Employment: 122,730

Financial Risk Specialists

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Analyze and measure exposure to credit and market risk threatening the assets, earning capacity, or economic state of an organization. May make recommendations to limit risk.

Starting Salary: $61,090

Median Salary: $106,090

Employment: 55,290

Financial Specialists, All Other

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

All financial specialists not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $43,510

Median Salary: $78,310

Employment: 122,730

Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Create original artwork using any of a wide variety of media and techniques.

Starting Salary: $28,390

Median Salary: $59,300

Employment: 10,910

Fire Inspectors and Investigators

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Inspect buildings to detect fire hazards and enforce local ordinances and state laws, or investigate and gather facts to determine cause of fires and explosions.

Starting Salary: $46,360

Median Salary: $74,160

Employment: 14,200

Firefighters

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Control and extinguish fires or respond to emergency situations where life, property, or the environment is at risk. Duties may include fire prevention, emergency medical service, hazardous material response, search and rescue, and disaster assistance.

Starting Salary: $31,600

Median Salary: $57,120

Employment: 315,460

Fire-Prevention and Protection Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Research causes of fires, determine fire protection methods, and design or recommend materials or equipment such as structural components or fire-detection equipment to assist organizations in safeguarding life and property against fire, explosion, and related hazards.

Starting Salary: $62,190

Median Salary: $103,690

Employment: 22,510

First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of construction or extraction workers.

Starting Salary: $49,420

Median Salary: $76,760

Employment: 777,420

First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of correctional officers and jailers.

Starting Salary: $42,600

Median Salary: $70,530

Employment: 52,280

First-Line Supervisors of Entertainment and Recreation Workers, Except Gambling Services

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of entertainment and recreation related workers.

Starting Salary: $31,400

Median Salary: $46,060

Employment: 88,140

First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers

Industries: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of agricultural, forestry, aquacultural, and related workers.

Starting Salary: $37,980

Median Salary: $57,320

Employment: 27,150

First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in firefighting and fire prevention and control.

Starting Salary: $49,910

Median Salary: $86,220

Employment: 84,120

First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in preparing and serving food.

Starting Salary: $28,830

Median Salary: $38,520

Employment: 1,176,540

First-Line Supervisors of Gambling Services Workers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers in assigned gambling areas. May circulate among tables, observe operations, and ensure that stations and games are covered for each shift. May verify and pay off jackpots. May reset slot machines after payoffs and make repairs or adjustments to slot machines or recommend removal of slot machines for repair. May plan and organize activities and services for guests in hotels/casinos.

Starting Salary: $37,230

Median Salary: $61,210

Employment: 25,100

First-Line Supervisors of Housekeeping and Janitorial Workers

Industries: Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate work activities of cleaning personnel in hotels, hospitals, offices, and other establishments.

Starting Salary: $33,060

Median Salary: $46,650

Employment: 171,120

First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers

Industries: Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of workers engaged in landscaping or groundskeeping activities. Work may involve reviewing contracts to ascertain service, machine, and workforce requirements; answering inquiries from potential customers regarding methods, material, and price ranges; and preparing estimates according to labor, material, and machine costs.

Starting Salary: $39,030

Median Salary: $55,740

Employment: 126,020

First-Line Supervisors of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of mechanics, installers, and repairers. May also advise customers on recommended services. Excludes team or work leaders.

Starting Salary: $46,070

Median Salary: $75,820

Employment: 589,880

First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of sales workers other than retail sales workers. May perform duties such as budgeting, accounting, and personnel work, in addition to supervisory duties.

Starting Salary: $48,640

Median Salary: $84,570

Employment: 227,150

First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of clerical and administrative support workers.

Starting Salary: $41,060

Median Salary: $63,450

Employment: 1,504,570

First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Supervise and coordinate activities of personal service workers.

Starting Salary: $31,330

Median Salary: $46,690

Employment: 106,440

First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of members of police force.

Starting Salary: $60,090

Median Salary: $101,750

Employment: 138,140

First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers

Industries: Production Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of production and operating workers, such as inspectors, precision workers, machine setters and operators, assemblers, fabricators, and plant and system operators. Excludes team or work leaders.

Starting Salary: $43,540

Median Salary: $65,930

Employment: 671,160

First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

All protective service supervisors not listed separately above.

Starting Salary: $39,130

Median Salary: $65,050

Employment: 19,620

First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of retail sales workers in an establishment or department. Duties may include management functions, such as purchasing, budgeting, accounting, and personnel work, in addition to supervisory duties.

Starting Salary: $30,350

Median Salary: $46,730

Employment: 1,087,890

First-Line Supervisors of Security Workers

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of security workers and security guards.

Starting Salary: $36,560

Median Salary: $54,580

Employment: 64,900

Fish and Game Wardens

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Patrol assigned area to prevent fish and game law violations. Investigate reports of damage to crops or property by wildlife. Compile biological data.

Starting Salary: $33,260

Median Salary: $60,380

Employment: 6,290

Fitness and Wellness Coordinators

Industries: Management Occupations

Manage or coordinate fitness and wellness programs and services. Manage and train staff of wellness specialists, health educators, or fitness instructors.

Starting Salary: $31,000

Median Salary: $57,570

Employment: 11,170

Flight Attendants

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Monitor safety of the aircraft cabin. Provide services to airline passengers, explain safety information, serve food and beverages, and respond to emergency incidents.

Starting Salary: $39,580

Median Salary: $68,370

Employment: 126,020

Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Apply blocks, strips, or sheets of shock-absorbing, sound-deadening, or decorative coverings to floors.

Starting Salary: $35,340

Median Salary: $48,840

Employment: 25,150

Floor Sanders and Finishers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Scrape and sand wooden floors to smooth surfaces using floor scraper and floor sanding machine, and apply coats of finish.

Starting Salary: $33,080

Median Salary: $47,760

Employment: 5,070

Floral Designers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Design, cut, and arrange live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage.

Starting Salary: $24,960

Median Salary: $34,690

Employment: 43,350

Food and Tobacco Roasting, Baking, and Drying Machine Operators and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or tend food or tobacco roasting, baking, or drying equipment, including hearth ovens, kiln driers, roasters, char kilns, and vacuum drying equipment.

Starting Salary: $29,650

Median Salary: $39,850

Employment: 19,570

Food Batchmakers

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up and operate equipment that mixes or blends ingredients used in the manufacturing of food products. Includes candy makers and cheese makers.

Starting Salary: $29,480

Median Salary: $38,460

Employment: 169,190

Food Cooking Machine Operators and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or tend cooking equipment, such as steam cooking vats, deep fry cookers, pressure cookers, kettles, and boilers, to prepare food products.

Starting Salary: $28,720

Median Salary: $38,550

Employment: 29,730

Food Preparation and Serving Related Workers, All Other

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

All food preparation and serving related workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $24,260

Median Salary: $33,870

Employment: 86,350

Food Preparation Workers

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Perform a variety of food preparation duties other than cooking, such as preparing cold foods and shellfish, slicing meat, and brewing coffee or tea.

Starting Salary: $22,970

Median Salary: $32,420

Employment: 879,610

Food Processing Workers, All Other

Industries: Production Occupations

All food processing workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $28,870

Median Salary: $36,890

Employment: 63,970

Food Science Technicians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Work with food scientists or technologists to perform standardized qualitative and quantitative tests to determine physical or chemical properties of food or beverage products. Includes technicians who assist in research and development of production technology, quality control, packaging, processing, and use of foods.

Starting Salary: $37,290

Median Salary: $49,090

Employment: 15,190

Food Scientists and Technologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Use chemistry, microbiology, engineering, and other sciences to study the principles underlying the processing and deterioration of foods; analyze food content to determine levels of vitamins, fat, sugar, and protein; discover new food sources; research ways to make processed foods safe, palatable, and healthful; and apply food science knowledge to determine best ways to process, package, preserve, store, and distribute food.

Starting Salary: $48,480

Median Salary: $82,090

Employment: 14,100

Food Servers, Nonrestaurant

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Serve food to individuals outside of a restaurant environment, such as in hotel rooms, hospital rooms, residential care facilities, or cars.

Starting Salary: $24,480

Median Salary: $33,110

Employment: 267,840

Food Service Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities of an organization or department that serves food and beverages.

Starting Salary: $42,990

Median Salary: $63,060

Employment: 246,070

Foreign Language and Literature Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach languages and literature courses in languages other than English. Includes teachers of American Sign Language (ASL). Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $48,230

Median Salary: $78,760

Employment: 20,820

Forensic Science Technicians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Collect, identify, classify, and analyze physical evidence related to criminal investigations. Perform tests on weapons or substances, such as fiber, hair, and tissue to determine significance to investigation. May testify as expert witnesses on evidence or crime laboratory techniques. May serve as specialists in area of expertise, such as ballistics, fingerprinting, handwriting, or biochemistry.

Starting Salary: $41,410

Median Salary: $64,940

Employment: 17,520

Forest and Conservation Technicians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Provide technical assistance regarding the conservation of soil, water, forests, or related natural resources. May compile data pertaining to size, content, condition, and other characteristics of forest tracts under the direction of foresters, or train and lead forest workers in forest propagation and fire prevention and suppression. May assist conservation scientists in managing, improving, and protecting rangelands and wildlife habitats.

Starting Salary: $34,570

Median Salary: $51,880

Employment: 28,740

Forest and Conservation Workers

Industries: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

Under supervision, perform manual labor necessary to develop, maintain, or protect areas such as forests, forested areas, woodlands, wetlands, and rangelands through such activities as raising and transporting seedlings; combating insects, pests, and diseases harmful to plant life; and building structures to control water, erosion, and leaching of soil. Includes forester aides, seedling pullers, tree planters, and gatherers of nontimber forestry products such as pine straw.

Starting Salary: $28,600

Median Salary: $33,940

Employment: 5,750

Forest Fire Inspectors and Prevention Specialists

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Enforce fire regulations, inspect forest for fire hazards, and recommend forest fire prevention or control measures. May report forest fires and weather conditions.

Starting Salary: $35,000

Median Salary: $54,080

Employment: 2,270

Foresters

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Manage public and private forested lands for economic, recreational, and conservation purposes. May inventory the type, amount, and location of standing timber, appraise the timber's worth, negotiate the purchase, and draw up contracts for procurement. May determine how to conserve wildlife habitats, creek beds, water quality, and soil stability, and how best to comply with environmental regulations. May devise plans for planting and growing new trees, monitor trees for healthy growth, and determine optimal harvesting schedules.

Starting Salary: $46,700

Median Salary: $67,330

Employment: 9,450

Forestry and Conservation Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in forestry and conservation science. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $58,120

Median Salary: $101,650

Employment: 1,260

Forging Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend forging machines to taper, shape, or form metal or plastic parts.

Starting Salary: $31,860

Median Salary: $46,990

Employment: 9,170

Foundry Mold and Coremakers

Industries: Production Occupations

Make or form wax or sand cores or molds used in the production of metal castings in foundries.

Starting Salary: $33,070

Median Salary: $44,300

Employment: 11,780

Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Obtain evidence, take statements, produce reports, and testify to findings regarding resolution of fraud allegations. May coordinate fraud detection and prevention activities.

Starting Salary: $43,510

Median Salary: $78,310

Employment: 122,730

Freight Forwarders

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Research rates, routings, or modes of transport for shipment of products. Maintain awareness of regulations affecting the international movement of cargo. Make arrangements for additional services, such as storage or inland transportation.

Starting Salary: $36,520

Median Salary: $48,330

Employment: 105,220

Fuel Cell Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design, evaluate, modify, or construct fuel cell components or systems for transportation, stationary, or portable applications.

Starting Salary: $64,560

Median Salary: $99,510

Employment: 281,290

Fundraisers

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Organize activities to raise funds or otherwise solicit and gather monetary donations or other gifts for an organization. May design and produce promotional materials. May also raise awareness of the organization's work, goals, and financial needs.

Starting Salary: $39,440

Median Salary: $64,160

Employment: 101,730

Fundraising Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities to solicit and maintain funds for special projects or nonprofit organizations.

Starting Salary: $68,800

Median Salary: $119,200

Employment: 31,810

Funeral Attendants

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Perform a variety of tasks during funeral, such as placing casket in parlor or chapel prior to service, arranging floral offerings or lights around casket, directing or escorting mourners, closing casket, and issuing and storing funeral equipment.

Starting Salary: $24,120

Median Salary: $33,850

Employment: 32,620

Funeral Home Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate the services or resources of funeral homes. Includes activities such as determining prices for services or merchandise and managing the facilities of funeral homes.

Starting Salary: $44,830

Median Salary: $75,660

Employment: 14,200

Furnace, Kiln, Oven, Drier, and Kettle Operators and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or tend heating equipment other than basic metal, plastic, or food processing equipment. Includes activities such as annealing glass, drying lumber, curing rubber, removing moisture from materials, or boiling soap.

Starting Salary: $34,430

Median Salary: $45,640

Employment: 14,820

Furniture Finishers

Industries: Production Occupations

Shape, finish, and refinish damaged, worn, or used furniture or new high-grade furniture to specified color or finish.

Starting Salary: $29,660

Median Salary: $39,790

Employment: 14,380

Gambling and Sports Book Writers and Runners

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Post information enabling patrons to wager on various races and sporting events. Assist in the operation of games such as keno and bingo. May operate random number-generating equipment and announce the numbers for patrons. Receive, verify, and record patrons' wagers. Scan and process winning tickets presented by patrons and pay out winnings for those wagers.

Starting Salary: $21,580

Median Salary: $29,170

Employment: 8,700

Gambling Cage Workers

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

In a gambling establishment, conduct financial transactions for patrons. Accept patron's credit application and verify credit references to provide check-cashing authorization or to establish house credit accounts. May reconcile daily summaries of transactions to balance books. May sell gambling chips, tokens, or tickets to patrons, or to other workers for resale to patrons. May convert gambling chips, tokens, or tickets to currency upon patron's request. May use a cash register or computer to record transaction.

Starting Salary: $25,790

Median Salary: $36,110

Employment: 12,560

Gambling Change Persons and Booth Cashiers

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Exchange coins, tokens, and chips for patrons' money. May issue payoffs and obtain customer's signature on receipt. May operate a booth in the slot machine area and furnish change persons with money bank at the start of the shift, or count and audit money in drawers.

Starting Salary: $22,630

Median Salary: $33,230

Employment: 20,560

Gambling Dealers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Operate table games. Stand or sit behind table and operate games of chance by dispensing the appropriate number of cards or blocks to players, or operating other gambling equipment. Distribute winnings or collect players' money or chips. May compare the house's hand against players' hands.

Starting Salary: $21,410

Median Salary: $32,240

Employment: 80,570

Gambling Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate gambling operations in a casino. May formulate house rules.

Starting Salary: $49,940

Median Salary: $82,380

Employment: 4,590

Gambling Service Workers, All Other

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

All gambling service workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $22,880

Median Salary: $32,710

Employment: 13,300

Gambling Surveillance Officers and Gambling Investigators

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Observe gambling operation for irregular activities such as cheating or theft by either employees or patrons. Investigate potential threats to gambling assets such as money, chips, and gambling equipment. Act as oversight and security agent for management and customers.

Starting Salary: $29,790

Median Salary: $39,210

Employment: 10,660

Gas Compressor and Gas Pumping Station Operators

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Operate steam-, gas-, electric motor-, or internal combustion-engine driven compressors. Transmit, compress, or recover gases, such as butane, nitrogen, hydrogen, and natural gas.

Starting Salary: $36,480

Median Salary: $61,870

Employment: 4,400

Gas Plant Operators

Industries: Production Occupations

Distribute or process gas for utility companies and others by controlling compressors to maintain specified pressures on main pipelines.

Starting Salary: $53,330

Median Salary: $82,560

Employment: 15,930

Gem and Diamond Workers

Industries: Production Occupations

Fabricate, finish, or evaluate the quality of gems and diamonds used in jewelry or industrial tools.

Starting Salary: $30,790

Median Salary: $47,450

Employment: 24,060

General and Operations Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate the operations of public or private sector organizations, overseeing multiple departments or locations. Duties and responsibilities include formulating policies, managing daily operations, and planning the use of materials and human resources, but are too diverse and general in nature to be classified in any one functional area of management or administration, such as personnel, purchasing, or administrative services. Usually manage through subordinate supervisors. Excludes First-Line Supervisors.

Starting Salary: $46,340

Median Salary: $101,280

Employment: 3,507,810

General Internal Medicine Physicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose and provide nonsurgical treatment for a wide range of diseases and injuries of internal organ systems. Provide care mainly for adults and adolescents, and are based primarily in an outpatient care setting.

Starting Salary: $70,120

Median Salary: $223,310

Employment: 67,210

Genetic Counselors

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assess individual or family risk for a variety of inherited conditions, such as genetic disorders and birth defects. Provide information to other healthcare providers or to individuals and families concerned with the risk of inherited conditions. Advise individuals and families to support informed decisionmaking and coping methods for those at risk. May help conduct research related to genetic conditions or genetic counseling.

Starting Salary: $72,530

Median Salary: $95,770

Employment: 3,050

Geneticists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Research and study the inheritance of traits at the molecular, organism or population level. May evaluate or treat patients with genetic disorders.

Starting Salary: $52,230

Median Salary: $91,100

Employment: 61,220

Geodetic Surveyors

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Measure large areas of the Earth's surface using satellite observations, global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), light detection and ranging (LIDAR), or related sources.

Starting Salary: $41,430

Median Salary: $68,540

Employment: 50,740

Geographers

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Study the nature and use of areas of the Earth's surface, relating and interpreting interactions of physical and cultural phenomena. Conduct research on physical aspects of a region, including land forms, climates, soils, plants, and animals, and conduct research on the spatial implications of human activities within a given area, including social characteristics, economic activities, and political organization, as well as researching interdependence between regions at scales ranging from local to global.

Starting Salary: $59,850

Median Salary: $90,880

Employment: 1,460

Geographic Information Systems Technologists and Technicians

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Assist scientists or related professionals in building, maintaining, modifying, or using geographic information systems (GIS) databases. May also perform some custom application development or provide user support.

Starting Salary: $49,690

Median Salary: $104,920

Employment: 437,170

Geography Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in geography. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $50,870

Median Salary: $85,600

Employment: 3,480

Geological Technicians, Except Hydrologic Technicians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Assist scientists or engineers in the use of electronic, sonic, or nuclear measuring instruments in laboratory, exploration, and production activities to obtain data indicating resources such as metallic ore, minerals, gas, coal, or petroleum. Analyze mud and drill cuttings. Chart pressure, temperature, and other characteristics of wells or bore holes.

Starting Salary: $34,160

Median Salary: $52,440

Employment: 8,860

Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Study the composition, structure, and other physical aspects of the Earth. May use geological, physics, and mathematics knowledge in exploration for oil, gas, minerals, or underground water; or in waste disposal, land reclamation, or other environmental problems. May study the Earth's internal composition, atmospheres, and oceans, and its magnetic, electrical, and gravitational forces. Includes mineralogists, paleontologists, stratigraphers, geodesists, and seismologists.

Starting Salary: $52,500

Median Salary: $92,580

Employment: 24,620

Geothermal Production Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Manage operations at geothermal power generation facilities. Maintain and monitor geothermal plant equipment for efficient and safe plant operations.

Starting Salary: $72,010

Median Salary: $116,970

Employment: 222,890

Geothermal Technicians

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Perform technical activities at power plants or individual installations necessary for the generation of power from geothermal energy sources. Monitor and control operating activities at geothermal power generation facilities and perform maintenance and repairs as necessary. Install, test, and maintain residential and commercial geothermal heat pumps.

Starting Salary: $32,400

Median Salary: $46,500

Employment: 175,860

Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers

Industries: Production Occupations

Shape molten glass according to patterns.

Starting Salary: $32,540

Median Salary: $43,310

Employment: 38,480

Glaziers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Install glass in windows, skylights, store fronts, and display cases, or on surfaces, such as building fronts, interior walls, ceilings, and tabletops.

Starting Salary: $36,440

Median Salary: $51,100

Employment: 53,390

Government Property Inspectors and Investigators

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Investigate or inspect government property to ensure compliance with contract agreements and government regulations.

Starting Salary: $43,790

Median Salary: $75,670

Employment: 383,620

Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products

Industries: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

Grade, sort, or classify unprocessed food and other agricultural products by size, weight, color, or condition.

Starting Salary: $28,400

Median Salary: $34,360

Employment: 23,430

Graphic Designers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. May use a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.

Starting Salary: $36,420

Median Salary: $58,910

Employment: 212,720

Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand

Industries: Production Occupations

Grind, sand, or polish, using hand tools or hand-held power tools, a variety of metal, wood, stone, clay, plastic, or glass objects. Includes chippers, buffers, and finishers.

Starting Salary: $30,140

Median Salary: $38,940

Employment: 12,290

Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend grinding and related tools that remove excess material or burrs from surfaces, sharpen edges or corners, or buff, hone, or polish metal or plastic work pieces.

Starting Salary: $32,960

Median Salary: $42,610

Employment: 75,260

Grounds Maintenance Workers, All Other

Industries: Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

All grounds maintenance workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $29,410

Median Salary: $43,310

Employment: 11,980

Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Provide beauty services, such as cutting, coloring, and styling hair, and massaging and treating scalp. May shampoo hair, apply makeup, dress wigs, remove hair, and provide nail and skincare services.

Starting Salary: $23,520

Median Salary: $34,970

Employment: 294,840

Hazardous Materials Removal Workers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Identify, remove, pack, transport, or dispose of hazardous materials, including asbestos, lead-based paint, waste oil, fuel, transmission fluid, radioactive materials, or contaminated soil. Specialized training and certification in hazardous materials handling or a confined entry permit are generally required. May operate earth-moving equipment or trucks.

Starting Salary: $35,550

Median Salary: $47,280

Employment: 49,960

Health and Safety Engineers, Except Mining Safety Engineers and Inspectors

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Promote worksite or product safety by applying knowledge of industrial processes, mechanics, chemistry, psychology, and industrial health and safety laws. Includes industrial product safety engineers.

Starting Salary: $62,190

Median Salary: $103,690

Employment: 22,510

Health Education Specialists

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

Provide and manage health education programs that help individuals, families, and their communities maximize and maintain healthy lifestyles. Use data to identify community needs prior to planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating programs designed to encourage healthy lifestyles, policies, and environments. May link health systems, health providers, insurers, and patients to address individual and population health needs. May serve as resource to assist individuals, other health professionals, or the community, and may administer fiscal resources for health education programs.

Starting Salary: $39,630

Median Salary: $62,860

Employment: 57,800

Health Informatics Specialists

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Apply knowledge of nursing and informatics to assist in the design, development, and ongoing modification of computerized health care systems. May educate staff and assist in problem solving to promote the implementation of the health care system.

Starting Salary: $63,230

Median Salary: $103,800

Employment: 498,810

Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Apply knowledge of healthcare and information systems to assist in the design, development, and continued modification and analysis of computerized healthcare systems. Abstract, collect, and analyze treatment and followup information of patients. May educate staff and assist in problem solving to promote the implementation of the healthcare information system. May design, develop, test, and implement databases with complete history, diagnosis, treatment, and health status to help monitor diseases.

Starting Salary: $38,310

Median Salary: $62,990

Employment: 34,430

Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in health specialties, in fields such as dentistry, laboratory technology, medicine, pharmacy, public health, therapy, and veterinary medicine.

Starting Salary: $52,300

Median Salary: $105,650

Employment: 225,360

Health Technologists and Technicians, All Other

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

All health technologists and technicians not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $35,890

Median Salary: $47,470

Employment: 171,110

Healthcare Diagnosing or Treating Practitioners, All Other

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

All healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $62,400

Median Salary: $107,990

Employment: 31,100

Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Workers, All Other

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

All healthcare practitioners and technical workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $35,250

Median Salary: $63,630

Employment: 36,900

Healthcare Social Workers

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

Provide individuals, families, and groups with the psychosocial support needed to cope with chronic, acute, or terminal illnesses. Services include advising family caregivers. Provide patients with information and counseling, and make referrals for other services. May also provide case and care management or interventions designed to promote health, prevent disease, and address barriers to access to healthcare.

Starting Salary: $41,840

Median Salary: $62,940

Employment: 185,020

Healthcare Support Workers, All Other

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

All healthcare support workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $31,630

Median Salary: $44,490

Employment: 102,230

Hearing Aid Specialists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Select and fit hearing aids for customers. Administer and interpret tests of hearing. Assess hearing instrument efficacy. Take ear impressions and prepare, design, and modify ear molds.

Starting Salary: $34,480

Median Salary: $58,670

Employment: 10,250

Heat Treating Equipment Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend heating equipment, such as heat-treating furnaces, flame-hardening machines, induction machines, soaking pits, or vacuum equipment to temper, harden, anneal, or heat treat metal or plastic objects.

Starting Salary: $34,850

Median Salary: $44,240

Employment: 14,950

Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install or repair heating, central air conditioning, HVAC, or refrigeration systems, including oil burners, hot-air furnaces, and heating stoves.

Starting Salary: $37,270

Median Salary: $57,300

Employment: 397,450

Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Drive a tractor-trailer combination or a truck with a capacity of at least 26,001 pounds Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW). May be required to unload truck. Requires commercial drivers' license. Includes tow truck drivers.

Starting Salary: $37,440

Median Salary: $54,320

Employment: 2,044,400

Helpers, Construction Trades, All Other

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

All construction trades helpers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $30,670

Median Salary: $40,220

Employment: 27,250

Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Help brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, or tile and marble setters by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Starting Salary: $33,270

Median Salary: $42,470

Employment: 16,460

Helpers--Carpenters

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Help carpenters by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Starting Salary: $29,930

Median Salary: $39,380

Employment: 21,770

Helpers--Electricians

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Help electricians by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Starting Salary: $29,970

Median Salary: $38,340

Employment: 68,670

Helpers--Extraction Workers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Help extraction craft workers, such as earth drillers, blasters and explosives workers, derrick operators, and mining machine operators, by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include supplying equipment or cleaning work area.

Starting Salary: $34,970

Median Salary: $45,520

Employment: 7,360

Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Help installation, maintenance, and repair workers in maintenance, parts replacement, and repair of vehicles, industrial machinery, and electrical and electronic equipment. Perform duties such as furnishing tools, materials, and supplies to other workers; cleaning work area, machines, and tools; and holding materials or tools for other workers.

Starting Salary: $27,080

Median Salary: $36,710

Employment: 101,890

Helpers--Painters, Paperhangers, Plasterers, and Stucco Masons

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Help painters, paperhangers, plasterers, or stucco masons by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Starting Salary: $29,060

Median Salary: $37,010

Employment: 7,700

Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Help plumbers, pipefitters, steamfitters, or pipelayers by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Starting Salary: $29,780

Median Salary: $37,650

Employment: 45,300

Helpers--Production Workers

Industries: Production Occupations

Help production workers by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Starting Salary: $28,630

Median Salary: $36,700

Employment: 181,810

Helpers--Roofers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Help roofers by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Starting Salary: $30,040

Median Salary: $38,620

Employment: 4,540

Highway Maintenance Workers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement and repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road, or plow snow from roadway.

Starting Salary: $32,280

Median Salary: $47,360

Employment: 150,860

Historians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Research, analyze, record, and interpret the past as recorded in sources, such as government and institutional records, newspapers and other periodicals, photographs, interviews, films, electronic media, and unpublished manuscripts, such as personal diaries and letters.

Starting Salary: $35,760

Median Salary: $72,890

Employment: 3,040

History Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in human history and historiography. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $48,760

Median Salary: $82,140

Employment: 20,610

Hoist and Winch Operators

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Operate or tend hoists or winches to lift and pull loads using power-operated cable equipment.

Starting Salary: $33,760

Median Salary: $55,950

Employment: 2,230

Home Appliance Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair, adjust, or install all types of electric or gas household appliances, such as refrigerators, washers, dryers, and ovens.

Starting Salary: $31,100

Median Salary: $47,170

Employment: 29,950

Hospitalists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Provide inpatient care predominantly in settings such as medical wards, acute care units, intensive care units, rehabilitation centers, or emergency rooms. Manage and coordinate patient care throughout treatment.

Starting Salary: $66,260

Median Salary: $236,000

Employment: 310,080

Hosts and Hostesses, Restaurant, Lounge, and Coffee Shop

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Welcome patrons, seat them at tables or in lounge, and help ensure quality of facilities and service.

Starting Salary: $21,530

Median Salary: $29,220

Employment: 425,020

Hotel, Motel, and Resort Desk Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Accommodate hotel, motel, and resort patrons by registering and assigning rooms to guests, issuing room keys or cards, transmitting and receiving messages, keeping records of occupied rooms and guests' accounts, making and confirming reservations, and presenting statements to and collecting payments from departing guests.

Starting Salary: $23,500

Median Salary: $30,790

Employment: 263,800

Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design objects, facilities, and environments to optimize human well-being and overall system performance, applying theory, principles, and data regarding the relationship between humans and respective technology. Investigate and analyze characteristics of human behavior and performance as it relates to the use of technology.

Starting Salary: $65,320

Median Salary: $99,380

Employment: 332,870

Human Resources Assistants, Except Payroll and Timekeeping

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Compile and keep personnel records. Record data for each employee, such as address, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports, and date of and reason for termination. May prepare reports for employment records, file employment records, or search employee files and furnish information to authorized persons.

Starting Salary: $34,490

Median Salary: $47,710

Employment: 101,440

Human Resources Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate human resources activities and staff of an organization.

Starting Salary: $81,060

Median Salary: $136,350

Employment: 200,600

Human Resources Specialists

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Recruit, screen, interview, or place individuals within an organization. May perform other activities in multiple human resources areas.

Starting Salary: $42,900

Median Salary: $67,650

Employment: 895,970

Hydroelectric Plant Technicians

Industries: Production Occupations

Monitor and control activities associated with hydropower generation. Operate plant equipment, such as turbines, pumps, valves, gates, fans, electric control boards, and battery banks. Monitor equipment operation and performance and make necessary adjustments to ensure optimal performance. Perform equipment maintenance and repair as necessary.

Starting Salary: $54,080

Median Salary: $97,010

Employment: 31,490

Hydroelectric Production Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Manage operations at hydroelectric power generation facilities. Maintain and monitor hydroelectric plant equipment for efficient and safe plant operations.

Starting Salary: $72,010

Median Salary: $116,970

Employment: 222,890

Hydrologic Technicians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Collect and organize data concerning the distribution and circulation of ground and surface water, and data on its physical, chemical, and biological properties. Measure and report on flow rates and ground water levels, maintain field equipment, collect water samples, install and collect sampling equipment, and process samples for shipment to testing laboratories. May collect data on behalf of hydrologists, engineers, developers, government agencies, or agriculture.

Starting Salary: $37,690

Median Salary: $55,890

Employment: 3,000

Hydrologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Research the distribution, circulation, and physical properties of underground and surface waters; and study the form and intensity of precipitation and its rate of infiltration into the soil, movement through the earth, and return to the ocean and atmosphere.

Starting Salary: $57,120

Median Salary: $88,770

Employment: 6,150

Industrial Ecologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Apply principles and processes of natural ecosystems to develop models for efficient industrial systems. Use knowledge from the physical and social sciences to maximize effective use of natural resources in the production and use of goods and services. Examine societal issues and their relationship with both technical systems and the environment.

Starting Salary: $48,580

Median Salary: $78,980

Employment: 80,730

Industrial Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Apply engineering theory and principles to problems of industrial layout or manufacturing production, usually under the direction of engineering staff. May perform time and motion studies on worker operations in a variety of industries for purposes such as establishing standard production rates or improving efficiency.

Starting Salary: $44,950

Median Salary: $62,610

Employment: 73,020

Industrial Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design, develop, test, and evaluate integrated systems for managing industrial production processes, including human work factors, quality control, inventory control, logistics and material flow, cost analysis, and production coordination.

Starting Salary: $65,320

Median Salary: $99,380

Employment: 332,870

Industrial Machinery Mechanics

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair, install, adjust, or maintain industrial production and processing machinery or refinery and pipeline distribution systems. May also install, dismantle, or move machinery and heavy equipment according to plans.

Starting Salary: $42,390

Median Salary: $61,420

Employment: 412,650

Industrial Production Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing products in accordance with cost, quality, and quantity specifications.

Starting Salary: $72,010

Median Salary: $116,970

Employment: 222,890

Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Operate industrial trucks or tractors equipped to move materials around a warehouse, storage yard, factory, construction site, or similar location.

Starting Salary: $35,260

Median Salary: $44,470

Employment: 778,920

Industrial-Organizational Psychologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Apply principles of psychology to human resources, administration, management, sales, and marketing problems. Activities may include policy planning; employee testing and selection, training, and development; and organizational development and analysis. May work with management to organize the work setting to improve worker productivity.

Starting Salary: $45,860

Median Salary: $147,420

Employment: 1,030

Information and Record Clerks, All Other

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

All information and record clerks not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $31,390

Median Salary: $46,210

Employment: 151,760

Information Security Analysts

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Plan, implement, upgrade, or monitor security measures for the protection of computer networks and information. Assess system vulnerabilities for security risks and propose and implement risk mitigation strategies. May ensure appropriate security controls are in place that will safeguard digital files and vital electronic infrastructure. May respond to computer security breaches and viruses.

Starting Salary: $69,210

Median Salary: $120,360

Employment: 175,350

Information Security Engineers

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Develop and oversee the implementation of information security procedures and policies. Build, maintain and upgrade security technology, such as firewalls, for the safe use of computer networks and the transmission and retrieval of information. Design and implement appropriate security controls to identify vulnerabilities and protect digital files and electronic infrastructures. Monitor and respond to computer security breaches, viruses, and intrusions, and perform forensic investigation. May oversee the assessment of information security systems.

Starting Salary: $49,690

Median Salary: $104,920

Employment: 437,170

Information Technology Project Managers

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Plan, initiate, and manage information technology (IT) projects. Lead and guide the work of technical staff. Serve as liaison between business and technical aspects of projects. Plan project stages and assess business implications for each stage. Monitor progress to assure deadlines, standards, and cost targets are met.

Starting Salary: $49,690

Median Salary: $104,920

Employment: 437,170

Inspectors, Testers, Sorters, Samplers, and Weighers

Industries: Production Occupations

Inspect, test, sort, sample, or weigh nonagricultural raw materials or processed, machined, fabricated, or assembled parts or products for defects, wear, and deviations from specifications. May use precision measuring instruments and complex test equipment.

Starting Salary: $31,950

Median Salary: $45,850

Employment: 584,630

Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers, All Other

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

All installation, maintenance, and repair workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $32,400

Median Salary: $46,500

Employment: 175,860

Instructional Coordinators

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Develop instructional material, coordinate educational content, and incorporate current technology into instruction in order to provide guidelines to educators and instructors for developing curricula and conducting courses. May train and coach teachers. Includes educational consultants and specialists, and instructional material directors.

Starting Salary: $46,540

Median Salary: $74,620

Employment: 207,270

Insulation Workers, Floor, Ceiling, and Wall

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Line and cover structures with insulating materials. May work with batt, roll, or blown insulation materials.

Starting Salary: $33,210

Median Salary: $47,540

Employment: 38,510

Insulation Workers, Mechanical

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Apply insulating materials to pipes or ductwork, or other mechanical systems in order to help control and maintain temperature.

Starting Salary: $38,910

Median Salary: $53,920

Employment: 22,850

Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Appraise automobile or other vehicle damage to determine repair costs for insurance claim settlement. Prepare insurance forms to indicate repair cost or cost estimates and recommendations. May seek agreement with automotive repair shop on repair costs.

Starting Salary: $56,890

Median Salary: $74,520

Employment: 8,670

Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Process new insurance policies, modifications to existing policies, and claims forms. Obtain information from policyholders to verify the accuracy and completeness of information on claims forms, applications and related documents, and company records. Update existing policies and company records to reflect changes requested by policyholders and insurance company representatives.

Starting Salary: $35,510

Median Salary: $46,900

Employment: 241,650

Insurance Sales Agents

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Sell life, property, casualty, health, automotive, or other types of insurance. May refer clients to independent brokers, work as an independent broker, or be employed by an insurance company.

Starting Salary: $34,940

Median Salary: $59,080

Employment: 457,510

Insurance Underwriters

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Review individual applications for insurance to evaluate degree of risk involved and determine acceptance of applications.

Starting Salary: $48,480

Median Salary: $77,860

Employment: 101,310

Intelligence Analysts

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Gather, analyze, or evaluate information from a variety of sources, such as law enforcement databases, surveillance, intelligence networks or geographic information systems. Use intelligence data to anticipate and prevent organized crime activities, such as terrorism.

Starting Salary: $50,670

Median Salary: $91,100

Employment: 106,730

Interior Designers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Plan, design, and furnish the internal space of rooms or buildings. Design interior environments or create physical layouts that are practical, aesthetic, and conducive to the intended purposes. May specialize in a particular field, style, or phase of interior design.

Starting Salary: $37,730

Median Salary: $62,510

Employment: 67,760

Interpreters and Translators

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Interpret oral or sign language, or translate written text from one language into another.

Starting Salary: $35,410

Median Salary: $57,090

Employment: 51,560

Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Interview persons by telephone, mail, in person, or by other means for the purpose of completing forms, applications, or questionnaires. Ask specific questions, record answers, and assist persons with completing form. May sort, classify, and file forms.

Starting Salary: $30,110

Median Salary: $40,300

Employment: 160,550

Investment Fund Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate investment strategy or operations for a large pool of liquid assets supplied by institutional investors or individual investors.

Starting Salary: $82,870

Median Salary: $156,100

Employment: 787,340

Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners

Industries: Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

Keep buildings in clean and orderly condition. Perform heavy cleaning duties, such as cleaning floors, shampooing rugs, washing walls and glass, and removing rubbish. Duties may include tending furnace and boiler, performing routine maintenance activities, notifying management of need for repairs, and cleaning snow or debris from sidewalk.

Starting Salary: $25,770

Median Salary: $35,020

Employment: 2,172,500

Jewelers and Precious Stone and Metal Workers

Industries: Production Occupations

Design, fabricate, adjust, repair, or appraise jewelry, gold, silver, other precious metals, or gems.

Starting Salary: $30,790

Median Salary: $47,450

Employment: 24,060

Judges, Magistrate Judges, and Magistrates

Industries: Legal Occupations

Arbitrate, advise, adjudicate, or administer justice in a court of law. May sentence defendant in criminal cases according to government statutes or sentencing guidelines. May determine liability of defendant in civil cases. May perform wedding ceremonies.

Starting Salary: $45,950

Median Salary: $148,910

Employment: 24,470

Judicial Law Clerks

Industries: Legal Occupations

Assist judges in court or by conducting research or preparing legal documents.

Starting Salary: $41,020

Median Salary: $57,490

Employment: 14,680

Kindergarten Teachers, Except Special Education

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach academic and social skills to kindergarten students.

Starting Salary: $45,650

Median Salary: $62,690

Employment: 118,580

Labor Relations Specialists

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Resolve disputes between workers and managers, negotiate collective bargaining agreements, or coordinate grievance procedures to handle employee complaints.

Starting Salary: $48,360

Median Salary: $89,980

Employment: 62,800

Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Manually move freight, stock, luggage, or other materials, or perform other general labor. Includes all manual laborers not elsewhere classified.

Starting Salary: $29,480

Median Salary: $37,660

Employment: 3,008,300

Landscape Architects

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Plan and design land areas for projects such as parks and other recreational facilities, airports, highways, hospitals, schools, land subdivisions, and commercial, industrial, and residential sites.

Starting Salary: $50,000

Median Salary: $79,320

Employment: 20,370

Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers

Industries: Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units.

Starting Salary: $29,070

Median Salary: $37,360

Employment: 929,930

Lathe and Turning Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend lathe and turning machines to turn, bore, thread, form, or face metal or plastic materials, such as wire, rod, or bar stock.

Starting Salary: $35,760

Median Salary: $47,110

Employment: 19,560

Laundry and Dry-Cleaning Workers

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or tend washing or dry-cleaning machines to wash or dry-clean industrial or household articles, such as cloth garments, suede, leather, furs, blankets, draperies, linens, rugs, and carpets. Includes spotters and dyers of these articles.

Starting Salary: $23,670

Median Salary: $31,050

Employment: 185,000

Law Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in law. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $51,810

Median Salary: $127,360

Employment: 14,570

Lawyers

Industries: Legal Occupations

Represent clients in criminal and civil litigation and other legal proceedings, draw up legal documents, or manage or advise clients on legal transactions. May specialize in a single area or may practice broadly in many areas of law.

Starting Salary: $69,760

Median Salary: $145,760

Employment: 731,340

Layout Workers, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Lay out reference points and dimensions on metal or plastic stock or workpieces, such as sheets, plates, tubes, structural shapes, castings, or machine parts, for further processing. Includes shipfitters.

Starting Salary: $41,480

Median Salary: $62,270

Employment: 6,660

Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Perform secretarial duties using legal terminology, procedures, and documents. Prepare legal papers and correspondence, such as summonses, complaints, motions, and subpoenas. May also assist with legal research.

Starting Salary: $34,780

Median Salary: $50,680

Employment: 152,790

Legal Support Workers, All Other

Industries: Legal Occupations

All legal support workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $39,890

Median Salary: $67,700

Employment: 43,760

Legislators

Industries: Management Occupations

Develop, introduce, or enact laws and statutes at the local, tribal, state, or federal level. Includes only workers in elected positions.

Starting Salary: $21,010

Median Salary: $47,290

Employment: 32,460

Librarians and Media Collections Specialists

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Administer and maintain libraries or collections of information, for public or private access through reference or borrowing. Work in a variety of settings, such as educational institutions, museums, and corporations, and with various types of informational materials, such as books, periodicals, recordings, films, and databases. Tasks may include acquiring, cataloging, and circulating library materials, and user services such as locating and organizing information, providing instruction on how to access information, and setting up and operating a library's media equipment.

Starting Salary: $38,690

Median Salary: $64,370

Employment: 133,760

Library Assistants, Clerical

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Compile records, and sort, shelve, issue, and receive library materials such as books, electronic media, pictures, cards, slides and microfilm. Locate library materials for loan and replace material in shelving area, stacks, or files according to identification number and title. Register patrons to permit them to borrow books, periodicals, and other library materials.

Starting Salary: $23,510

Median Salary: $34,020

Employment: 83,680

Library Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in library science. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $53,660

Median Salary: $80,310

Employment: 4,220

Library Technicians

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Assist librarians by helping readers in the use of library catalogs, databases, and indexes to locate books and other materials; and by answering questions that require only brief consultation of standard reference. Compile records; sort and shelve books or other media; remove or repair damaged books or other media; register patrons; and check materials in and out of the circulation process. Replace materials in shelving area (stacks) or files. Includes bookmobile drivers who assist with providing services in mobile libraries.

Starting Salary: $27,040

Median Salary: $39,310

Employment: 76,670

Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Care for ill, injured, or convalescing patients or persons with disabilities in hospitals, nursing homes, clinics, private homes, group homes, and similar institutions. May work under the supervision of a registered nurse. Licensing required.

Starting Salary: $45,670

Median Salary: $59,730

Employment: 630,250

Life Scientists, All Other

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

All life scientists not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $50,340

Median Salary: $86,950

Employment: 7,490

Life, Physical, and Social Science Technicians, All Other

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

All life, physical, and social science technicians not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $36,650

Median Salary: $58,350

Employment: 72,230

Lifeguards, Ski Patrol, and Other Recreational Protective Service Workers

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Monitor recreational areas, such as pools, beaches, or ski slopes, to provide assistance and protection to participants.

Starting Salary: $22,750

Median Salary: $30,380

Employment: 123,560

Light Truck Drivers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Drive a light vehicle, such as a truck or van, with a capacity of less than 26,001 pounds Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW), primarily to pick up merchandise or packages from a distribution center and deliver. May load and unload vehicle.

Starting Salary: $28,070

Median Salary: $42,470

Employment: 1,003,960

Lighting Technicians

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Set up, maintain, and dismantle light fixtures, lighting control devices, and the associated lighting electrical and rigging equipment used for photography, television, film, video, and live productions. May focus or operate light fixtures, or attach color filters or other lighting accessories.

Starting Salary: $37,680

Median Salary: $62,240

Employment: 9,520

Loading and Moving Machine Operators, Underground Mining

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Operate underground loading or moving machine to load or move coal, ore, or rock using shuttle or mine car or conveyors. Equipment may include power shovels, hoisting engines equipped with cable-drawn scraper or scoop, or machines equipped with gathering arms and conveyor.

Starting Salary: $45,250

Median Salary: $64,070

Employment: 5,160

Loan Interviewers and Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Interview loan applicants to elicit information; investigate applicants' backgrounds and verify references; prepare loan request papers; and forward findings, reports, and documents to appraisal department. Review loan papers to ensure completeness, and complete transactions between loan establishment, borrowers, and sellers upon approval of loan.

Starting Salary: $35,010

Median Salary: $47,380

Employment: 203,940

Loan Officers

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Evaluate, authorize, or recommend approval of commercial, real estate, or credit loans. Advise borrowers on financial status and payment methods. Includes mortgage loan officers and agents, collection analysts, loan servicing officers, loan underwriters, and payday loan officers.

Starting Salary: $37,020

Median Salary: $69,990

Employment: 321,090

Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Provide personal items to patrons or customers in locker rooms, dressing rooms, or coatrooms.

Starting Salary: $21,580

Median Salary: $33,450

Employment: 14,720

Locksmiths and Safe Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair and open locks, make keys, change locks and safe combinations, and install and repair safes.

Starting Salary: $31,620

Median Salary: $48,380

Employment: 14,790

Locomotive Engineers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Drive electric, diesel-electric, steam, or gas-turbine-electric locomotives to transport passengers or freight. Interpret train orders, electronic or manual signals, and railroad rules and regulations.

Starting Salary: $59,450

Median Salary: $74,770

Employment: 32,390

Lodging Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities of an organization or department that provides lodging and other accommodations.

Starting Salary: $39,270

Median Salary: $65,360

Employment: 41,980

Log Graders and Scalers

Industries: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

Grade logs or estimate the marketable content or value of logs or pulpwood in sorting yards, millpond, log deck, or similar locations. Inspect logs for defects or measure logs to determine volume.

Starting Salary: $33,060

Median Salary: $45,600

Employment: 3,640

Logging Equipment Operators

Industries: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

Drive logging tractor or wheeled vehicle equipped with one or more accessories, such as bulldozer blade, frontal shear, grapple, logging arch, cable winches, hoisting rack, or crane boom, to fell tree; to skid, load, unload, or stack logs; or to pull stumps or clear brush. Includes operating stand-alone logging machines, such as log chippers.

Starting Salary: $30,930

Median Salary: $48,240

Employment: 23,720

Logging Workers, All Other

Industries: Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations

All logging workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $34,520

Median Salary: $52,480

Employment: 2,540

Logisticians

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Analyze and coordinate the ongoing logistical functions of a firm or organization. Responsible for the entire life cycle of a product, including acquisition, distribution, internal allocation, delivery, and final disposal of resources.

Starting Salary: $47,990

Median Salary: $79,400

Employment: 228,470

Logistics Analysts

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Analyze product delivery or supply chain processes to identify or recommend changes. May manage route activity including invoicing, electronic bills, and shipment tracing.

Starting Salary: $47,990

Median Salary: $79,400

Employment: 228,470

Logistics Engineers

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Design or analyze operational solutions for projects such as transportation optimization, network modeling, process and methods analysis, cost containment, capacity enhancement, routing and shipment optimization, or information management.

Starting Salary: $47,990

Median Salary: $79,400

Employment: 228,470

Loss Prevention Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan and direct policies, procedures, or systems to prevent the loss of assets. Determine risk exposure or potential liability, and develop risk control measures.

Starting Salary: $67,370

Median Salary: $133,560

Employment: 589,750

Low Vision Therapists, Orientation and Mobility Specialists, and Vision Rehabilitation Therapists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Provide therapy to patients with visual impairments to improve their functioning in daily life activities. May train patients in activities such as computer use, communication skills, or home management skills.

Starting Salary: $65,210

Median Salary: $96,370

Employment: 144,840

Machine Feeders and Offbearers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Feed materials into or remove materials from machines or equipment that is automatic or tended by other workers.

Starting Salary: $29,880

Median Salary: $39,250

Employment: 44,500

Machinists

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up and operate a variety of machine tools to produce precision parts and instruments out of metal. Includes precision instrument makers who fabricate, modify, or repair mechanical instruments. May also fabricate and modify parts to make or repair machine tools or maintain industrial machines, applying knowledge of mechanics, mathematics, metal properties, layout, and machining procedures.

Starting Salary: $36,690

Median Salary: $50,840

Employment: 290,720

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Operate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners. Monitor patient safety and comfort, and view images of area being scanned to ensure quality of pictures. May administer gadolinium contrast dosage intravenously. May interview patient, explain MRI procedures, and position patient on examining table. May enter into the computer data such as patient history, anatomical area to be scanned, orientation specified, and position of entry.

Starting Salary: $61,470

Median Salary: $83,740

Employment: 41,340

Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners

Industries: Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

Perform any combination of light cleaning duties to maintain private households or commercial establishments, such as hotels and hospitals, in a clean and orderly manner. Duties may include making beds, replenishing linens, cleaning rooms and halls, and vacuuming.

Starting Salary: $24,520

Median Salary: $33,450

Employment: 836,230

Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Prepare incoming and outgoing mail for distribution. Time-stamp, open, read, sort, and route incoming mail; and address, seal, stamp, fold, stuff, and affix postage to outgoing mail or packages. Duties may also include keeping necessary records and completed forms.

Starting Salary: $28,390

Median Salary: $36,880

Employment: 66,600

Maintenance and Repair Workers, General

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Perform work involving the skills of two or more maintenance or craft occupations to keep machines, mechanical equipment, or the structure of a building in repair. Duties may involve pipe fitting; HVAC maintenance; insulating; welding; machining; carpentry; repairing electrical or mechanical equipment; installing, aligning, and balancing new equipment; and repairing buildings, floors, or stairs.

Starting Salary: $30,860

Median Salary: $46,700

Employment: 1,503,150

Maintenance Workers, Machinery

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Lubricate machinery, change parts, or perform other routine machinery maintenance.

Starting Salary: $37,440

Median Salary: $57,350

Employment: 58,040

Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Apply makeup to performers to reflect period, setting, and situation of their role.

Starting Salary: $21,540

Median Salary: $47,390

Employment: 4,130

Management Analysts

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Conduct organizational studies and evaluations, design systems and procedures, conduct work simplification and measurement studies, and prepare operations and procedures manuals to assist management in operating more efficiently and effectively. Includes program analysts and management consultants.

Starting Salary: $57,840

Median Salary: $99,410

Employment: 838,140

Managers, All Other

Industries: Management Occupations

All managers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $67,370

Median Salary: $133,560

Employment: 589,750

Manicurists and Pedicurists

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Clean and shape customers' fingernails and toenails. May polish or decorate nails.

Starting Salary: $27,260

Median Salary: $34,250

Employment: 144,810

Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Move or install mobile homes or prefabricated buildings.

Starting Salary: $26,560

Median Salary: $38,980

Employment: 2,910

Manufacturing Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design, integrate, or improve manufacturing systems or related processes. May work with commercial or industrial designers to refine product designs to increase producibility and decrease costs.

Starting Salary: $65,320

Median Salary: $99,380

Employment: 332,870

Marine Engineers and Naval Architects

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design, develop, and evaluate the operation of marine vessels, ship machinery, and related equipment, such as power supply and propulsion systems.

Starting Salary: $76,860

Median Salary: $100,270

Employment: 9,960

Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Research conditions in local, regional, national, or online markets. Gather information to determine potential sales of a product or service, or plan a marketing or advertising campaign. May gather information on competitors, prices, sales, and methods of marketing and distribution. May employ search marketing tactics, analyze web metrics, and develop recommendations to increase search engine ranking and visibility to target markets.

Starting Salary: $40,040

Median Salary: $74,680

Employment: 846,370

Marketing Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate marketing policies and programs, such as determining the demand for products and services offered by a firm and its competitors, and identify potential customers. Develop pricing strategies with the goal of maximizing the firm's profits or share of the market while ensuring the firm's customers are satisfied. Oversee product development or monitor trends that indicate the need for new products and services.

Starting Salary: $79,600

Median Salary: $157,620

Employment: 368,940

Marriage and Family Therapists

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

Diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders, whether cognitive, affective, or behavioral, within the context of marriage and family systems. Apply psychotherapeutic and family systems theories and techniques in the delivery of services to individuals, couples, and families for the purpose of treating such diagnosed nervous and mental disorders.

Starting Salary: $39,090

Median Salary: $58,510

Employment: 63,340

Massage Therapists

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Perform therapeutic massages of soft tissues and joints. May assist in the assessment of range of motion and muscle strength, or propose client therapy plans.

Starting Salary: $32,240

Median Salary: $55,310

Employment: 92,650

Material Moving Workers, All Other

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

All material moving workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $32,240

Median Salary: $40,310

Employment: 23,970

Materials Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Evaluate materials and develop machinery and processes to manufacture materials for use in products that must meet specialized design and performance specifications. Develop new uses for known materials. Includes those engineers working with composite materials or specializing in one type of material, such as graphite, metal and metal alloys, ceramics and glass, plastics and polymers, and naturally occurring materials. Includes metallurgists and metallurgical engineers, ceramic engineers, and welding engineers.

Starting Salary: $63,340

Median Salary: $104,100

Employment: 24,630

Materials Scientists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Research and study the structures and chemical properties of various natural and synthetic or composite materials, including metals, alloys, rubber, ceramics, semiconductors, polymers, and glass. Determine ways to strengthen or combine materials or develop new materials with new or specific properties for use in a variety of products and applications. Includes glass scientists, ceramic scientists, metallurgical scientists, and polymer scientists.

Starting Salary: $64,130

Median Salary: $106,160

Employment: 8,810

Mathematical Science Occupations, All Other

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

All mathematical scientists not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $38,400

Median Salary: $70,620

Employment: 4,320

Mathematical Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses pertaining to mathematical concepts, statistics, and actuarial science and to the application of original and standardized mathematical techniques in solving specific problems and situations. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $48,740

Median Salary: $81,020

Employment: 48,230

Mathematicians

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Conduct research in fundamental mathematics or in application of mathematical techniques to science, management, and other fields. Solve problems in various fields using mathematical methods.

Starting Salary: $62,260

Median Salary: $116,440

Employment: 2,220

Meat, Poultry, and Fish Cutters and Trimmers

Industries: Production Occupations

Use hands or hand tools to perform routine cutting and trimming of meat, poultry, and seafood.

Starting Salary: $28,700

Median Salary: $36,300

Employment: 138,300

Mechanical Door Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install, service, or repair automatic door mechanisms and hydraulic doors. Includes garage door mechanics.

Starting Salary: $36,240

Median Salary: $48,650

Employment: 27,800

Mechanical Drafters

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Prepare detailed working diagrams of machinery and mechanical devices, including dimensions, fastening methods, and other engineering information.

Starting Salary: $43,420

Median Salary: $64,060

Employment: 44,850

Mechanical Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Apply theory and principles of mechanical engineering to modify, develop, test, or adjust machinery and equipment under direction of engineering staff or physical scientists.

Starting Salary: $44,110

Median Salary: $64,020

Employment: 38,930

Mechanical Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Perform engineering duties in planning and designing tools, engines, machines, and other mechanically functioning equipment. Oversee installation, operation, maintenance, and repair of equipment such as centralized heat, gas, water, and steam systems.

Starting Salary: $64,560

Median Salary: $99,510

Employment: 281,290

Mechatronics Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Research, design, develop, or test automation, intelligent systems, smart devices, or industrial systems control.

Starting Salary: $62,130

Median Salary: $111,970

Employment: 150,990

Media and Communication Equipment Workers, All Other

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

All media and communication equipment workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $30,110

Median Salary: $71,340

Employment: 11,430

Media and Communication Workers, All Other

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

All media and communication workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $36,880

Median Salary: $61,900

Employment: 23,230

Media Programming Directors

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in preparation of radio or television station program schedules and programs, such as sports or news.

Starting Salary: $42,040

Median Salary: $82,510

Employment: 154,470

Media Technical Directors/Managers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Coordinate activities of technical departments, such as taping, editing, engineering, and maintenance, to produce radio or television programs.

Starting Salary: $42,040

Median Salary: $82,510

Employment: 154,470

Medical and Health Services Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate medical and health services in hospitals, clinics, managed care organizations, public health agencies, or similar organizations.

Starting Salary: $67,900

Median Salary: $110,680

Employment: 515,100

Medical Appliance Technicians

Industries: Production Occupations

Construct, maintain, or repair medical supportive devices such as braces, orthotics and prosthetic devices, joints, arch supports, and other surgical and medical appliances.

Starting Salary: $35,160

Median Salary: $44,960

Employment: 12,550

Medical Assistants

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a physician. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding information for insurance purposes. Clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and administering medications as directed by physician.

Starting Salary: $33,500

Median Salary: $42,000

Employment: 763,040

Medical Dosimetrists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Generate radiation treatment plans, develop radiation dose calculations, communicate and supervise the treatment plan implementation, and consult with members of radiation oncology team.

Starting Salary: $86,480

Median Salary: $132,880

Employment: 3,900

Medical Equipment Preparers

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Prepare, sterilize, install, or clean laboratory or healthcare equipment. May perform routine laboratory tasks and operate or inspect equipment.

Starting Salary: $34,020

Median Salary: $45,280

Employment: 66,790

Medical Equipment Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Test, adjust, or repair biomedical or electromedical equipment.

Starting Salary: $36,810

Median Salary: $60,670

Employment: 64,400

Medical Records Specialists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Compile, process, and maintain medical records of hospital and clinic patients in a manner consistent with medical, administrative, ethical, legal, and regulatory requirements of the healthcare system. Classify medical and healthcare concepts, including diagnosis, procedures, medical services, and equipment, into the healthcare industry's numerical coding system. Includes medical coders.

Starting Salary: $35,080

Median Salary: $48,780

Employment: 185,690

Medical Scientists, Except Epidemiologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Conduct research dealing with the understanding of human diseases and the improvement of human health. Engage in clinical investigation, research and development, or other related activities.

Starting Salary: $61,810

Median Salary: $100,890

Employment: 136,620

Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Perform secretarial duties using specific knowledge of medical terminology and hospital, clinic, or laboratory procedures. Duties may include scheduling appointments, billing patients, and compiling and recording medical charts, reports, and correspondence.

Starting Salary: $31,900

Median Salary: $40,640

Employment: 749,500

Medical Transcriptionists

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Transcribe medical reports recorded by physicians and other healthcare practitioners using various electronic devices, covering office visits, emergency room visits, diagnostic imaging studies, operations, chart reviews, and final summaries. Transcribe dictated reports and translate abbreviations into fully understandable form. Edit as necessary and return reports in either printed or electronic form for review and signature, or correction.

Starting Salary: $27,190

Median Salary: $37,060

Employment: 52,420

Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Coordinate activities of staff, convention personnel, or clients to make arrangements for group meetings, events, or conventions.

Starting Salary: $34,410

Median Salary: $56,920

Employment: 122,130

Mental Health and Substance Abuse Social Workers

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

Assess and treat individuals with mental, emotional, or substance abuse problems, including abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and/or other drugs. Activities may include individual and group therapy, crisis intervention, case management, client advocacy, prevention, and education.

Starting Salary: $37,150

Median Salary: $55,960

Employment: 114,680

Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Plan and erect commercial displays, such as those in windows and interiors of retail stores and at trade exhibitions.

Starting Salary: $29,280

Median Salary: $36,230

Employment: 175,790

Metal Workers and Plastic Workers, All Other

Industries: Production Occupations

All metal workers and plastic workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $32,580

Median Salary: $41,200

Employment: 20,370

Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or tend furnaces, such as gas, oil, coal, electric-arc or electric induction, open-hearth, or oxygen furnaces, to melt and refine metal before casting or to produce specified types of steel.

Starting Salary: $37,180

Median Salary: $50,250

Employment: 20,870

Meter Readers, Utilities

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Read meter and record consumption of electricity, gas, water, or steam.

Starting Salary: $31,320

Median Salary: $47,720

Employment: 19,900

Microbiologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Investigate the growth, structure, development, and other characteristics of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, algae, or fungi. Includes medical microbiologists who study the relationship between organisms and disease or the effects of antibiotics on microorganisms.

Starting Salary: $49,070

Median Salary: $85,470

Employment: 21,540

Microsystems Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Research, design, develop, or test microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) devices.

Starting Salary: $62,130

Median Salary: $111,970

Employment: 150,990

Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach one or more subjects to students at the middle, intermediate, or junior high school level.

Starting Salary: $47,490

Median Salary: $64,290

Employment: 626,690

Midwives

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Provide prenatal care and childbirth assistance.

Starting Salary: $35,250

Median Salary: $63,630

Employment: 36,900

Milling and Planing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend milling or planing machines to mill, plane, shape, groove, or profile metal or plastic work pieces.

Starting Salary: $35,140

Median Salary: $47,200

Employment: 13,990

Millwrights

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install, dismantle, or move machinery and heavy equipment according to layout plans, blueprints, or other drawings.

Starting Salary: $43,160

Median Salary: $62,980

Employment: 37,930

Mining and Geological Engineers, Including Mining Safety Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Conduct subsurface surveys to identify the characteristics of potential land or mining development sites. May specify the ground support systems, processes, and equipment for safe, economical, and environmentally sound extraction or underground construction activities. May inspect areas for unsafe geological conditions, equipment, and working conditions. May design, implement, and coordinate mine safety programs.

Starting Salary: $55,150

Median Salary: $100,640

Employment: 7,040

Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend machines to mix or blend materials, such as chemicals, tobacco, liquids, color pigments, or explosive ingredients.

Starting Salary: $34,090

Median Salary: $46,100

Employment: 105,740

Mobile Heavy Equipment Mechanics, Except Engines

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul mobile mechanical, hydraulic, and pneumatic equipment, such as cranes, bulldozers, graders, and conveyors, used in construction, logging, and mining.

Starting Salary: $42,990

Median Salary: $61,900

Employment: 177,280

Model Makers, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up and operate machines, such as lathes, milling and engraving machines, and jig borers to make working models of metal or plastic objects. Includes template makers.

Starting Salary: $42,470

Median Salary: $64,190

Employment: 2,840

Model Makers, Wood

Industries: Production Occupations

Construct full-size and scale wooden precision models of products. Includes wood jig builders and loft workers.

Starting Salary: $33,880

Median Salary: $45,040

Employment: 590

Models

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Model garments or other apparel and accessories for prospective buyers at fashion shows, private showings, or retail establishments. May pose for photos to be used in magazines or advertisements. May pose as subject for paintings, sculptures, and other types of artistic expression.

Starting Salary: $31,680

Median Salary: $47,430

Employment: 3,090

Molders, Shapers, and Casters, Except Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Mold, shape, form, cast, or carve products such as food products, figurines, tile, pipes, and candles consisting of clay, glass, plaster, concrete, stone, or combinations of materials.

Starting Salary: $32,540

Median Salary: $43,310

Employment: 38,480

Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend metal or plastic molding, casting, or coremaking machines to mold or cast metal or thermoplastic parts or products.

Starting Salary: $30,280

Median Salary: $38,870

Employment: 158,980

Molecular and Cellular Biologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Research and study cellular molecules and organelles to understand cell function and organization.

Starting Salary: $52,230

Median Salary: $91,100

Employment: 61,220

Morticians, Undertakers, and Funeral Arrangers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Perform various tasks to arrange and direct individual funeral services, such as coordinating transportation of body to mortuary, interviewing family or other authorized person to arrange details, selecting pallbearers, aiding with the selection of officials for religious rites, and providing transportation for mourners.

Starting Salary: $30,660

Median Salary: $51,030

Employment: 24,200

Motion Picture Projectionists

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Set up and operate motion picture projection and related sound reproduction equipment.

Starting Salary: $22,840

Median Salary: $35,160

Employment: 2,610

Motor Vehicle Operators, All Other

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

All motor vehicle operators not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $24,550

Median Salary: $35,690

Employment: 51,140

Motorboat Mechanics and Service Technicians

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair and adjust electrical and mechanical equipment of inboard or inboard-outboard boat engines.

Starting Salary: $35,010

Median Salary: $49,990

Employment: 23,230

Motorboat Operators

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Operate small motor-driven boats. May assist in navigational activities.

Starting Salary: $28,890

Median Salary: $46,420

Employment: 2,710

Motorcycle Mechanics

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, dirt bikes, or similar motorized vehicles.

Starting Salary: $30,200

Median Salary: $46,270

Employment: 14,330

Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend more than one type of cutting or forming machine tool or robot.

Starting Salary: $31,240

Median Salary: $41,600

Employment: 127,790

Museum Technicians and Conservators

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Restore, maintain, or prepare objects in museum collections for storage, research, or exhibit. May work with specimens such as fossils, skeletal parts, or botanicals; or artifacts, textiles, or art. May identify and record objects or install and arrange them in exhibits. Includes book or document conservators.

Starting Salary: $30,730

Median Salary: $48,670

Employment: 12,670

Music Directors and Composers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Conduct, direct, plan, and lead instrumental or vocal performances by musical artists or groups, such as orchestras, bands, choirs, and glee clubs; or create original works of music.

Starting Salary: $34,240

Median Salary: $62,590

Employment: 10,770

Music Therapists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Plan, organize, direct, or assess clinical and evidenced-based music therapy interventions to positively influence individuals' physical, psychological, cognitive, or behavioral status.

Starting Salary: $40,790

Median Salary: $63,650

Employment: 16,490

Musical Instrument Repairers and Tuners

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair percussion, stringed, reed, or wind instruments. May specialize in one area, such as piano tuning.

Starting Salary: $29,330

Median Salary: $42,800

Employment: 6,170

Musicians and Singers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Play one or more musical instruments or sing. May perform on stage, for broadcasting, or for sound or video recording.

Starting Salary: $33,322

Median Salary: $81,411

Employment: 35,520

Nannies

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Care for children in private households and provide support and expertise to parents in satisfying children's physical, emotional, intellectual, and social needs. Duties may include meal planning and preparation, laundry and clothing care, organization of play activities and outings, discipline, intellectual stimulation, language activities, and transportation.

Starting Salary: $22,450

Median Salary: $30,370

Employment: 497,450

Nanosystems Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design, develop, or supervise the production of materials, devices, or systems of unique molecular or macromolecular composition, applying principles of nanoscale physics and electrical, chemical, or biological engineering.

Starting Salary: $62,130

Median Salary: $111,970

Employment: 150,990

Nanotechnology Engineering Technologists and Technicians

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Implement production processes and operate commercial-scale production equipment to produce, test, or modify materials, devices, or systems of unique molecular or macromolecular composition. Operate advanced microscopy equipment to manipulate nanoscale objects. Work under the supervision of nanoengineering staff.

Starting Salary: $44,950

Median Salary: $62,610

Employment: 73,020

Natural Sciences Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics, statistics, and research and development in these fields.

Starting Salary: $77,520

Median Salary: $157,740

Employment: 96,520

Naturopathic Physicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, treat, and help prevent diseases using a system of practice that is based on the natural healing capacity of individuals. May use physiological, psychological or mechanical methods. May also use natural medicines, prescription or legend drugs, foods, herbs, or other natural remedies.

Starting Salary: $62,400

Median Salary: $107,990

Employment: 31,100

Network and Computer Systems Administrators

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Install, configure, and maintain an organization's local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), data communications network, operating systems, and physical and virtual servers. Perform system monitoring and verify the integrity and availability of hardware, network, and server resources and systems. Review system and application logs and verify completion of scheduled jobs, including system backups. Analyze network and server resource consumption and control user access. Install and upgrade software and maintain software licenses. May assist in network modeling, analysis, planning, and coordination between network and data communications hardware and software.

Starting Salary: $58,680

Median Salary: $95,360

Employment: 323,020

Neurodiagnostic Technologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Conduct electroneurodiagnostic (END) tests such as electroencephalograms, evoked potentials, polysomnograms, or electronystagmograms. May perform nerve conduction studies.

Starting Salary: $35,890

Median Salary: $47,470

Employment: 171,110

Neurologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, manage, and treat disorders and diseases of the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nerves, with a primarily nonsurgical focus.

Starting Salary: $82,990

Median Salary: $130,790

Employment: 9,350

Neuropsychologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Apply theories and principles of neuropsychology to evaluate and diagnose disorders of higher cerebral functioning, often in research and medical settings. Study the human brain and the effect of physiological states on human cognition and behavior. May formulate and administer programs of treatment.

Starting Salary: $47,450

Median Salary: $117,750

Employment: 14,480

New Accounts Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Interview persons desiring to open accounts in financial institutions. Explain account services available to prospective customers and assist them in preparing applications.

Starting Salary: $35,040

Median Salary: $44,630

Employment: 41,180

News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Narrate or write news stories, reviews, or commentary for print, broadcast, or other communications media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, or television. May collect and analyze information through interview, investigation, or observation.

Starting Salary: $31,550

Median Salary: $57,500

Employment: 45,020

Non-Destructive Testing Specialists

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Test the safety of structures, vehicles, or vessels using x-ray, ultrasound, fiber optic or related equipment.

Starting Salary: $42,900

Median Salary: $73,500

Employment: 66,200

Nuclear Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Conduct research on nuclear engineering projects or apply principles and theory of nuclear science to problems concerned with release, control, and use of nuclear energy and nuclear waste disposal.

Starting Salary: $82,150

Median Salary: $125,460

Employment: 12,710

Nuclear Medicine Technologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Prepare, administer, and measure radioactive isotopes in therapeutic, diagnostic, and tracer studies using a variety of radioisotope equipment. Prepare stock solutions of radioactive materials and calculate doses to be administered by radiologists. Subject patients to radiation. Execute blood volume, red cell survival, and fat absorption studies following standard laboratory techniques.

Starting Salary: $69,300

Median Salary: $92,500

Employment: 16,560

Nuclear Monitoring Technicians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Collect and test samples to monitor results of nuclear experiments and contamination of humans, facilities, and environment.

Starting Salary: $62,700

Median Salary: $101,740

Employment: 5,400

Nuclear Power Reactor Operators

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or control nuclear reactors. Move control rods, start and stop equipment, monitor and adjust controls, and record data in logs. Implement emergency procedures when needed. May respond to abnormalities, determine cause, and recommend corrective action.

Starting Salary: $92,270

Median Salary: $120,350

Employment: 5,760

Nuclear Technicians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Assist nuclear physicists, nuclear engineers, or other scientists in laboratory, power generation, or electricity production activities. May operate, maintain, or provide quality control for nuclear testing and research equipment. May monitor radiation.

Starting Salary: $62,700

Median Salary: $101,740

Employment: 5,400

Nurse Anesthetists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Administer anesthesia, monitor patient's vital signs, and oversee patient recovery from anesthesia. May assist anesthesiologists, surgeons, other physicians, or dentists. Must be registered nurses who have specialized graduate education.

Starting Salary: $139,980

Median Salary: $212,650

Employment: 47,810

Nurse Midwives

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose and coordinate all aspects of the birthing process, either independently or as part of a healthcare team. May provide well-woman gynecological care. Must have specialized, graduate nursing education.

Starting Salary: $87,320

Median Salary: $129,650

Employment: 6,960

Nurse Practitioners

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose and treat acute, episodic, or chronic illness, independently or as part of a healthcare team. May focus on health promotion and disease prevention. May order, perform, or interpret diagnostic tests such as lab work and x rays. May prescribe medication. Must be registered nurses who have specialized graduate education.

Starting Salary: $94,530

Median Salary: $126,260

Employment: 280,140

Nursing Assistants

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Provide or assist with basic care or support under the direction of onsite licensed nursing staff. Perform duties such as monitoring of health status, feeding, bathing, dressing, grooming, toileting, or ambulation of patients in a health or nursing facility. May include medication administration and other health-related tasks. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.

Starting Salary: $30,020

Median Salary: $38,200

Employment: 1,351,760

Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Demonstrate and teach patient care in classroom and clinical units to nursing students. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $49,120

Median Salary: $80,780

Employment: 72,700

Obstetricians and Gynecologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Provide medical care related to pregnancy or childbirth. Diagnose, treat, and help prevent diseases of women, particularly those affecting the reproductive system. May also provide general care to women. May perform both medical and gynecological surgery functions.

Starting Salary: $89,850

Median Salary: $186,290

Employment: 19,820

Occupational Health and Safety Specialists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Review, evaluate, and analyze work environments and design programs and procedures to control, eliminate, and prevent disease or injury caused by chemical, physical, and biological agents or ergonomic factors. May conduct inspections and enforce adherence to laws and regulations governing the health and safety of individuals. May be employed in the public or private sector.

Starting Salary: $49,550

Median Salary: $81,140

Employment: 122,300

Occupational Health and Safety Technicians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Collect data on work environments for analysis by occupational health and safety specialists. Implement and conduct evaluation of programs designed to limit chemical, physical, biological, and ergonomic risks to workers.

Starting Salary: $40,030

Median Salary: $57,920

Employment: 27,270

Occupational Therapists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assess, plan, and organize rehabilitative programs that help build or restore vocational, homemaking, and daily living skills, as well as general independence, to persons with disabilities or developmental delays. Use therapeutic techniques, adapt the individual's environment, teach skills, and modify specific tasks that present barriers to the individual.

Starting Salary: $65,210

Median Salary: $96,370

Employment: 144,840

Occupational Therapy Aides

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Under close supervision of an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant, perform only delegated, selected, or routine tasks in specific situations. These duties include preparing patient and treatment room.

Starting Salary: $25,150

Median Salary: $36,970

Employment: 4,430

Occupational Therapy Assistants

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Assist occupational therapists in providing occupational therapy treatments and procedures. May, in accordance with state laws, assist in development of treatment plans, carry out routine functions, direct activity programs, and document the progress of treatments. Generally requires formal training.

Starting Salary: $48,670

Median Salary: $67,010

Employment: 46,090

Office and Administrative Support Workers, All Other

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

All office and administrative support workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $29,100

Median Salary: $43,230

Employment: 172,020

Office Clerks, General

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Perform duties too varied and diverse to be classified in any specific office clerical occupation, requiring knowledge of office systems and procedures. Clerical duties may be assigned in accordance with the office procedures of individual establishments and may include a combination of answering telephones, bookkeeping, typing or word processing, office machine operation, and filing.

Starting Salary: $28,230

Median Salary: $40,480

Employment: 2,496,370

Office Machine Operators, Except Computer

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Operate one or more of a variety of office machines, such as photocopying, photographic, and duplicating machines, or other office machines.

Starting Salary: $28,450

Median Salary: $37,450

Employment: 27,960

Online Merchants

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Conduct retail activities of businesses operating exclusively online. May perform duties such as preparing business strategies, buying merchandise, managing inventory, implementing marketing activities, fulfilling and shipping online orders, and balancing financial records.

Starting Salary: $44,370

Median Salary: $79,590

Employment: 1,103,440

Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Operate one or several types of power construction equipment, such as motor graders, bulldozers, scrapers, compressors, pumps, derricks, shovels, tractors, or front-end loaders to excavate, move, and grade earth, erect structures, or pour concrete or other hard surface pavement. May repair and maintain equipment in addition to other duties.

Starting Salary: $38,410

Median Salary: $56,160

Employment: 450,370

Operations Research Analysts

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Formulate and apply mathematical modeling and other optimizing methods to develop and interpret information that assists management with decisionmaking, policy formulation, or other managerial functions. May collect and analyze data and develop decision support software, services, or products. May develop and supply optimal time, cost, or logistics networks for program evaluation, review, or implementation.

Starting Salary: $52,930

Median Salary: $83,640

Employment: 117,880

Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians

Industries: Production Occupations

Cut, grind, and polish eyeglasses, contact lenses, or other precision optical elements. Assemble and mount lenses into frames or process other optical elements. Includes precision lens polishers or grinders, centerer-edgers, and lens mounters.

Starting Salary: $30,030

Median Salary: $37,720

Employment: 18,240

Ophthalmic Medical Technicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assist ophthalmologists by performing ophthalmic clinical functions. May administer eye exams, administer eye medications, and instruct the patient in care and use of corrective lenses.

Starting Salary: $31,200

Median Salary: $41,780

Employment: 73,390

Ophthalmic Medical Technologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assist ophthalmologists by performing ophthalmic clinical functions and ophthalmic photography. Provide instruction and supervision to other ophthalmic personnel. Assist with minor surgical procedures, applying aseptic techniques and preparing instruments. May perform eye exams, administer eye medications, and instruct patients in care and use of corrective lenses.

Starting Salary: $35,890

Median Salary: $47,470

Employment: 171,110

Ophthalmologists, Except Pediatric

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose and perform surgery to treat and help prevent disorders and diseases of the eye. May also provide vision services for treatment including glasses and contacts.

Starting Salary: $115,520

Median Salary: $200,000

Employment: 11,530

Opticians, Dispensing

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Design, measure, fit, and adapt lenses and frames for client according to written optical prescription or specification. Assist client with inserting, removing, and caring for contact lenses. Assist client with selecting frames. Measure customer for size of eyeglasses and coordinate frames with facial and eye measurements and optical prescription. Prepare work order for optical laboratory containing instructions for grinding and mounting lenses in frames. Verify exactness of finished lens spectacles. Adjust frame and lens position to fit client. May shape or reshape frames. Includes contact lens opticians.

Starting Salary: $31,560

Median Salary: $44,170

Employment: 76,770

Optometrists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, manage, and treat conditions and diseases of the human eye and visual system. Examine eyes and visual system, diagnose problems or impairments, prescribe corrective lenses, and provide treatment. May prescribe therapeutic drugs to treat specific eye conditions.

Starting Salary: $64,980

Median Salary: $131,860

Employment: 41,390

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Perform surgery and related procedures on the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial regions to treat diseases, injuries, or defects. May diagnose problems of the oral and maxillofacial regions. May perform surgery to improve function or appearance.

Starting Salary: $88,060

Median Salary: $212,300

Employment: 4,160

Order Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Receive and process incoming orders for materials, merchandise, classified ads, or services such as repairs, installations, or rental of facilities. Generally receives orders via mail, phone, fax, or other electronic means. Duties include informing customers of receipt, prices, shipping dates, and delays; preparing contracts; and handling complaints.

Starting Salary: $30,730

Median Salary: $41,600

Employment: 91,830

Orderlies

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Transport patients to areas such as operating rooms or x-ray rooms using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds. May maintain stocks of supplies or clean and transport equipment. Psychiatric orderlies are included in Psychiatric Aides.

Starting Salary: $30,260

Median Salary: $36,830

Employment: 48,710

Orthodontists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Examine, diagnose, and treat dental malocclusions and oral cavity anomalies. Design and fabricate appliances to realign teeth and jaws to produce and maintain normal function and to improve appearance.

Starting Salary: $89,980

Median Salary: $132,000

Employment: 6,400

Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose and perform surgery to treat and prevent rheumatic and other diseases in the musculoskeletal system.

Starting Salary: $129,360

Median Salary: $212,760

Employment: 14,820

Orthoptists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose and treat visual system disorders such as binocular vision and eye movement impairments.

Starting Salary: $62,400

Median Salary: $107,990

Employment: 31,100

Orthotists and Prosthetists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Design, measure, fit, and adapt orthopedic braces, appliances or prostheses, such as limbs or facial parts for patients with disabling conditions.

Starting Salary: $42,020

Median Salary: $78,100

Employment: 8,820

Outdoor Power Equipment and Other Small Engine Mechanics

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul small engines used to power lawn mowers, chain saws, recreational sporting equipment, and related equipment.

Starting Salary: $30,840

Median Salary: $44,140

Employment: 36,080

Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or tend machines to prepare industrial or consumer products for storage or shipment. Includes cannery workers who pack food products.

Starting Salary: $30,050

Median Salary: $38,330

Employment: 371,600

Packers and Packagers, Hand

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Pack or package by hand a wide variety of products and materials.

Starting Salary: $25,880

Median Salary: $34,830

Employment: 645,210

Painters, Construction and Maintenance

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Paint walls, equipment, buildings, bridges, and other structural surfaces, using brushes, rollers, and spray guns. May remove old paint to prepare surface prior to painting. May mix colors or oils to obtain desired color or consistency.

Starting Salary: $35,570

Median Salary: $47,700

Employment: 215,910

Painting, Coating, and Decorating Workers

Industries: Production Occupations

Paint, coat, or decorate articles, such as furniture, glass, plateware, pottery, jewelry, toys, books, or leather.

Starting Salary: $30,660

Median Salary: $40,230

Employment: 10,700

Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend paper goods machines that perform a variety of functions, such as converting, sawing, corrugating, banding, wrapping, boxing, stitching, forming, or sealing paper or paperboard sheets into products.

Starting Salary: $35,590

Median Salary: $47,250

Employment: 96,460

Paperhangers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Cover interior walls or ceilings of rooms with decorative wallpaper or fabric, or attach advertising posters on surfaces such as walls and billboards. May remove old materials or prepare surfaces to be papered.

Starting Salary: $36,400

Median Salary: $48,460

Employment: 1,830

Paralegals and Legal Assistants

Industries: Legal Occupations

Assist lawyers by investigating facts, preparing legal documents, or researching legal precedent. Conduct research to support a legal proceeding, to formulate a defense, or to initiate legal action.

Starting Salary: $39,710

Median Salary: $60,970

Employment: 354,890

Paramedics

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Administer basic or advanced emergency medical care and assess injuries and illnesses. May administer medication intravenously, use equipment such as EKGs, or administer advanced life support to sick or injured individuals.

Starting Salary: $38,520

Median Salary: $53,180

Employment: 98,770

Park Naturalists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Plan, develop, and conduct programs to inform public of historical, natural, and scientific features of national, state, or local park.

Starting Salary: $42,850

Median Salary: $68,750

Employment: 22,790

Parking Attendants

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Park vehicles or issue tickets for customers in a parking lot or garage. May park or tend vehicles in environments such as a car dealership or rental car facility. May collect fee.

Starting Salary: $22,890

Median Salary: $32,840

Employment: 118,130

Parking Enforcement Workers

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Patrol assigned area, such as public parking lot or city streets to issue tickets to overtime parking violators and illegally parked vehicles.

Starting Salary: $32,260

Median Salary: $46,840

Employment: 7,420

Parts Salespersons

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Sell spare and replacement parts and equipment in repair shop or parts store.

Starting Salary: $26,700

Median Salary: $36,860

Employment: 260,770

Passenger Attendants

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Provide services to ensure the safety of passengers aboard ships, buses, trains, or within the station or terminal. Perform duties such as explaining the use of safety equipment, serving meals or beverages, or answering questions related to travel.

Starting Salary: $27,040

Median Salary: $35,620

Employment: 20,190

Patient Representatives

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assist patients in obtaining services, understanding policies and making health care decisions.

Starting Salary: $35,890

Median Salary: $47,470

Employment: 171,110

Patternmakers, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Lay out, machine, fit, and assemble castings and parts to metal or plastic foundry patterns, core boxes, or match plates.

Starting Salary: $36,280

Median Salary: $49,670

Employment: 2,150

Patternmakers, Wood

Industries: Production Occupations

Plan, lay out, and construct wooden unit or sectional patterns used in forming sand molds for castings.

Starting Salary: $38,700

Median Salary: $48,630

Employment: 260

Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Operate equipment used for applying concrete, asphalt, or other materials to road beds, parking lots, or airport runways and taxiways or for tamping gravel, dirt, or other materials. Includes concrete and asphalt paving machine operators, form tampers, tamping machine operators, and stone spreader operators.

Starting Salary: $36,470

Median Salary: $48,980

Employment: 43,080

Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Compile and record employee time and payroll data. May compute employees' time worked, production, and commission. May compute and post wages and deductions, or prepare paychecks.

Starting Salary: $35,960

Median Salary: $52,240

Employment: 157,230

Pediatric Surgeons

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose and perform surgery to treat fetal abnormalities and birth defects, diseases, and injuries in fetuses, premature and newborn infants, children, and adolescents. Includes all pediatric surgical specialties and subspecialties.

Starting Salary: $172,810

Median Salary: $#

Employment: 1,180

Pediatricians, General

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, treat, and help prevent diseases and injuries in children. May refer patients to specialists for further diagnosis or treatment, as needed.

Starting Salary: $85,120

Median Salary: $198,690

Employment: 34,870

Penetration Testers

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Evaluate network system security by conducting simulated internal and external cyberattacks using adversary tools and techniques. Attempt to breach and exploit critical systems and gain access to sensitive information to assess system security.

Starting Salary: $49,690

Median Salary: $104,920

Employment: 437,170

Personal Care and Service Workers, All Other

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

All personal care and service workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $24,210

Median Salary: $36,980

Employment: 60,390

Personal Financial Advisors

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Advise clients on financial plans using knowledge of tax and investment strategies, securities, insurance, pension plans, and real estate. Duties include assessing clients' assets, liabilities, cash flow, insurance coverage, tax status, and financial objectives. May also buy and sell financial assets for clients.

Starting Salary: $48,730

Median Salary: $99,580

Employment: 272,190

Personal Service Managers, All Other

Industries: Management Occupations

All personal service managers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $31,000

Median Salary: $57,570

Employment: 11,170

Pest Control Workers

Industries: Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

Apply or release chemical solutions or toxic gases and set traps to kill or remove pests and vermin that infest buildings and surrounding areas.

Starting Salary: $30,670

Median Salary: $43,470

Employment: 93,760

Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation

Industries: Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

Mix or apply pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides through sprays, dusts, vapors, soil incorporation, or chemical application on trees, shrubs, lawns, or crops. Usually requires specific training and state or federal certification.

Starting Salary: $31,550

Median Salary: $44,070

Employment: 23,520

Petroleum Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Devise methods to improve oil and gas extraction and production and determine the need for new or modified tool designs. Oversee drilling and offer technical advice.

Starting Salary: $77,340

Median Salary: $135,690

Employment: 20,390

Petroleum Pump System Operators, Refinery Operators, and Gaugers

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or control petroleum refining or processing units. May specialize in controlling manifold and pumping systems, gauging or testing oil in storage tanks, or regulating the flow of oil into pipelines.

Starting Salary: $57,970

Median Salary: $94,580

Employment: 33,360

Pharmacists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Dispense drugs prescribed by physicians and other health practitioners and provide information to patients about medications and their use. May advise physicians and other health practitioners on the selection, dosage, interactions, and side effects of medications.

Starting Salary: $89,980

Median Salary: $136,030

Employment: 331,700

Pharmacy Aides

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Record drugs delivered to the pharmacy, store incoming merchandise, and inform the supervisor of stock needs. May operate cash register and accept prescriptions for filling.

Starting Salary: $27,560

Median Salary: $36,200

Employment: 43,830

Pharmacy Technicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Prepare medications under the direction of a pharmacist. May measure, mix, count out, label, and record amounts and dosages of medications according to prescription orders.

Starting Salary: $32,720

Median Salary: $40,300

Employment: 460,280

Philosophy and Religion Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in philosophy, religion, and theology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $48,450

Median Salary: $79,930

Employment: 20,320

Phlebotomists

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Draw blood for tests, transfusions, donations, or research. May explain the procedure to patients and assist in the recovery of patients with adverse reactions.

Starting Salary: $33,310

Median Salary: $41,810

Employment: 137,080

Photographers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Photograph people, landscapes, merchandise, or other subjects. May use lighting equipment to enhance a subject's appearance. May use editing software to produce finished images and prints. Includes commercial and industrial photographers, scientific photographers, and photojournalists.

Starting Salary: $28,510

Median Salary: $40,760

Employment: 53,630

Photographic Process Workers and Processing Machine Operators

Industries: Production Occupations

Perform work involved in developing and processing photographic images from film or digital media. May perform precision tasks such as editing photographic negatives and prints.

Starting Salary: $29,390

Median Salary: $35,620

Employment: 5,770

Photonics Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design technologies specializing in light information or light energy, such as laser or fiber optics technology.

Starting Salary: $62,130

Median Salary: $111,970

Employment: 150,990

Photonics Technicians

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Build, install, test, or maintain optical or fiber optic equipment, such as lasers, lenses, or mirrors, using spectrometers, interferometers, or related equipment.

Starting Salary: $42,900

Median Salary: $73,500

Employment: 66,200

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose and treat disorders requiring physiotherapy to provide physical, mental, and occupational rehabilitation.

Starting Salary: $66,260

Median Salary: $236,000

Employment: 310,080

Physical Scientists, All Other

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

All physical scientists not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $59,590

Median Salary: $112,280

Employment: 20,820

Physical Therapist Aides

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Under close supervision of a physical therapist or physical therapy assistant, perform only delegated, selected, or routine tasks in specific situations. These duties include preparing the patient and the treatment area.

Starting Salary: $23,070

Median Salary: $33,520

Employment: 42,390

Physical Therapist Assistants

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Assist physical therapists in providing physical therapy treatments and procedures. May, in accordance with state laws, assist in the development of treatment plans, carry out routine functions, document the progress of treatment, and modify specific treatments in accordance with patient status and within the scope of treatment plans established by a physical therapist. Generally requires formal training.

Starting Salary: $42,110

Median Salary: $64,080

Employment: 104,000

Physical Therapists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and improve or correct disabling conditions resulting from disease or injury.

Starting Salary: $72,260

Median Salary: $99,710

Employment: 240,820

Physician Assistants

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Provide healthcare services typically performed by a physician, under the supervision of a physician. Conduct complete physicals, provide treatment, and counsel patients. May, in some cases, prescribe medication. Must graduate from an accredited educational program for physician assistants.

Starting Salary: $86,280

Median Salary: $130,020

Employment: 145,740

Physicians, All Other

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

All physicians not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $66,260

Median Salary: $236,000

Employment: 310,080

Physicians, Pathologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose diseases and conduct lab tests using organs, body tissues, and fluids. Includes medical examiners.

Starting Salary: $74,220

Median Salary: $181,090

Employment: 11,020

Physicists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Conduct research into physical phenomena, develop theories on the basis of observation and experiments, and devise methods to apply physical laws and theories.

Starting Salary: $80,950

Median Salary: $155,680

Employment: 18,350

Physics Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses pertaining to the laws of matter and energy. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $55,150

Median Salary: $98,020

Employment: 14,030

Pile Driver Operators

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Operate pile drivers mounted on skids, barges, crawler treads, or locomotive cranes to drive pilings for retaining walls, bulkheads, and foundations of structures such as buildings, bridges, and piers.

Starting Salary: $40,840

Median Salary: $63,550

Employment: 3,010

Pipelayers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Lay pipe for storm or sanitation sewers, drains, and water mains. Perform any combination of the following tasks: grade trenches or culverts, position pipe, or seal joints.

Starting Salary: $35,820

Median Salary: $47,330

Employment: 34,840

Plant and System Operators, All Other

Industries: Production Occupations

All plant and system operators not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $36,120

Median Salary: $56,940

Employment: 15,370

Plasterers and Stucco Masons

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Apply interior or exterior plaster, cement, stucco, or similar materials. May also set ornamental plaster.

Starting Salary: $36,880

Median Salary: $52,640

Employment: 22,310

Plating Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend plating machines to coat metal or plastic products with chromium, zinc, copper, cadmium, nickel, or other metal to protect or decorate surfaces. Typically, the product being coated is immersed in molten metal or an electrolytic solution.

Starting Salary: $30,730

Median Salary: $39,740

Employment: 31,970

Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Assemble, install, alter, and repair pipelines or pipe systems that carry water, steam, air, or other liquids or gases. May install heating and cooling equipment and mechanical control systems. Includes sprinkler fitters.

Starting Salary: $38,690

Median Salary: $61,550

Employment: 436,160

Podiatrists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose and treat diseases and deformities of the human foot.

Starting Salary: $58,550

Median Salary: $141,650

Employment: 9,470

Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Create original written works, such as scripts, essays, prose, poetry or song lyrics, for publication or performance.

Starting Salary: $40,900

Median Salary: $73,690

Employment: 49,450

Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Maintain order and protect life and property by enforcing local, tribal, state, or federal laws and ordinances. Perform a combination of the following duties: patrol a specific area; direct traffic; issue traffic summonses; investigate accidents; apprehend and arrest suspects, or serve legal processes of courts. Includes police officers working at educational institutions.

Starting Salary: $45,200

Median Salary: $72,280

Employment: 646,310

Police Identification and Records Officers

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Collect evidence at crime scene, classify and identify fingerprints, and photograph evidence for use in criminal and civil cases.

Starting Salary: $50,670

Median Salary: $91,100

Employment: 106,730

Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in political science, international affairs, and international relations. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $51,610

Median Salary: $93,810

Employment: 17,090

Political Scientists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Study the origin, development, and operation of political systems. May study topics, such as public opinion, political decisionmaking, and ideology. May analyze the structure and operation of governments, as well as various political entities. May conduct public opinion surveys, analyze election results, or analyze public documents.

Starting Salary: $72,470

Median Salary: $132,350

Employment: 5,580

Postal Service Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Perform any combination of tasks in a United States Postal Service (USPS) post office, such as receive letters and parcels; sell postage and revenue stamps, postal cards, and stamped envelopes; fill out and sell money orders; place mail in pigeon holes of mail rack or in bags; and examine mail for correct postage. Includes postal service clerks employed by USPS contractors.

Starting Salary: $41,700

Median Salary: $59,570

Employment: 78,130

Postal Service Mail Carriers

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Sort and deliver mail for the United States Postal Service (USPS). Deliver mail on established route by vehicle or on foot. Includes postal service mail carriers employed by USPS contractors.

Starting Salary: $41,480

Median Salary: $56,330

Employment: 331,600

Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Prepare incoming and outgoing mail for distribution for the United States Postal Service (USPS). Examine, sort, and route mail. Load, operate, and occasionally adjust and repair mail processing, sorting, and canceling machinery. Keep records of shipments, pouches, and sacks, and perform other duties related to mail handling within the postal service. Includes postal service mail sorters and processors employed by USPS contractors.

Starting Salary: $41,700

Median Salary: $53,440

Employment: 116,540

Postmasters and Mail Superintendents

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate operational, administrative, management, and support services of a U.S. post office; or coordinate activities of workers engaged in postal and related work in assigned post office.

Starting Salary: $79,060

Median Salary: $88,670

Employment: 13,810

Postsecondary Teachers, All Other

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

All postsecondary teachers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $45,930

Median Salary: $79,870

Employment: 166,980

Potters, Manufacturing

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate production machines such as pug mill, jigger machine, or potter's wheel to process clay in manufacture of ceramic, pottery and stoneware products.

Starting Salary: $32,540

Median Salary: $43,310

Employment: 38,480

Pourers and Casters, Metal

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate hand-controlled mechanisms to pour and regulate the flow of molten metal into molds to produce castings or ingots.

Starting Salary: $36,220

Median Salary: $48,690

Employment: 5,460

Power Distributors and Dispatchers

Industries: Production Occupations

Coordinate, regulate, or distribute electricity or steam.

Starting Salary: $68,360

Median Salary: $104,750

Employment: 9,040

Power Plant Operators

Industries: Production Occupations

Control, operate, or maintain machinery to generate electric power. Includes auxiliary equipment operators.

Starting Salary: $54,080

Median Salary: $97,010

Employment: 31,490

Precision Agriculture Technicians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Apply geospatial technologies, including geographic information systems (GIS) and Global Positioning System (GPS), to agricultural production or management activities, such as pest scouting, site-specific pesticide application, yield mapping, or variable-rate irrigation. May use computers to develop or analyze maps or remote sensing images to compare physical topography with data on soils, fertilizer, pests, or weather.

Starting Salary: $30,750

Median Salary: $43,180

Employment: 13,150

Precision Instrument and Equipment Repairers, All Other

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

All precision instrument and equipment repairers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $41,250

Median Salary: $62,040

Employment: 10,330

Prepress Technicians and Workers

Industries: Production Occupations

Format and proof text and images submitted by designers and clients into finished pages that can be printed. Includes digital and photo typesetting. May produce printing plates.

Starting Salary: $31,330

Median Salary: $45,070

Employment: 23,590

Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Instruct preschool-aged students, following curricula or lesson plans, in activities designed to promote social, physical, and intellectual growth.

Starting Salary: $28,200

Median Salary: $37,130

Employment: 430,240

Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials

Industries: Production Occupations

Press or shape articles by hand or machine.

Starting Salary: $23,650

Median Salary: $32,240

Employment: 28,700

Preventive Medicine Physicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Apply knowledge of general preventive medicine and public health issues to promote health care to groups or individuals, and aid in the prevention or reduction of risk of disease, injury, disability, or death. May practice population-based medicine or diagnose and treat patients in the context of clinical health promotion and disease prevention.

Starting Salary: $66,260

Median Salary: $236,000

Employment: 310,080

Print Binding and Finishing Workers

Industries: Production Occupations

Bind books and other publications or finish printed products by hand or machine. May set up binding and finishing machines.

Starting Salary: $29,220

Median Salary: $38,100

Employment: 38,880

Printing Press Operators

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up and operate digital, letterpress, lithographic, flexographic, gravure, or other printing machines. Includes short-run offset printing presses.

Starting Salary: $29,790

Median Salary: $41,860

Employment: 151,450

Private Detectives and Investigators

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Gather, analyze, compile, and report information regarding individuals or organizations to clients, or detect occurrences of unlawful acts or infractions of rules in private establishment.

Starting Salary: $36,060

Median Salary: $49,540

Employment: 34,600

Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

Provide social services to assist in rehabilitation of law offenders in custody or on probation or parole. Make recommendations for actions involving formulation of rehabilitation plan and treatment of offender, including conditional release and education and employment stipulations.

Starting Salary: $41,700

Median Salary: $61,800

Employment: 85,870

Procurement Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Compile information and records to draw up purchase orders for procurement of materials and services.

Starting Salary: $34,520

Median Salary: $46,670

Employment: 61,580

Producers and Directors

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Produce or direct stage, television, radio, video, or film productions for entertainment, information, or instruction. Responsible for creative decisions, such as interpretation of script, choice of actors or guests, set design, sound, special effects, and choreography.

Starting Salary: $42,040

Median Salary: $82,510

Employment: 154,470

Production Workers, All Other

Industries: Production Occupations

All production workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $29,220

Median Salary: $37,430

Employment: 243,500

Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Coordinate and expedite the flow of work and materials within or between departments of an establishment according to production schedule. Duties include reviewing and distributing production, work, and shipment schedules; conferring with department supervisors to determine progress of work and completion dates; and compiling reports on progress of work, inventory levels, costs, and production problems.

Starting Salary: $36,640

Median Salary: $53,900

Employment: 393,980

Project Management Specialists

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Analyze and coordinate the schedule, timeline, procurement, staffing, and budget of a product or service on a per project basis. Lead and guide the work of technical staff. May serve as a point of contact for the client or customer.

Starting Salary: $57,500

Median Salary: $98,580

Employment: 947,630

Proofreaders and Copy Markers

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Read transcript or proof type setup to detect and mark for correction any grammatical, typographical, or compositional errors. Excludes workers whose primary duty is editing copy. Includes proofreaders of braille.

Starting Salary: $31,730

Median Salary: $48,790

Employment: 5,490

Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate the selling, buying, leasing, or governance activities of commercial, industrial, or residential real estate properties. Includes managers of homeowner and condominium associations, rented or leased housing units, buildings, or land (including rights-of-way).

Starting Salary: $37,540

Median Salary: $62,850

Employment: 284,120

Prosthodontists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, treat, rehabilitate, design, and fit prostheses that maintain oral function, health, and appearance for patients with clinical conditions associated with teeth, oral and maxillofacial tissues, or the jaw.

Starting Salary: $93,600

Median Salary: $234,000

Employment: 570

Protective Service Workers, All Other

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

All protective service workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $30,920

Median Salary: $39,360

Employment: 82,500

Psychiatric Aides

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Assist mentally impaired or emotionally disturbed patients, working under direction of nursing and medical staff. May assist with daily living activities, lead patients in educational and recreational activities, or accompany patients to and from examinations and treatments. May restrain violent patients. Includes psychiatric orderlies.

Starting Salary: $27,660

Median Salary: $39,160

Employment: 32,310

Psychiatric Technicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Care for individuals with mental or emotional conditions or disabilities, following the instructions of physicians or other health practitioners. Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report to medical staff. May participate in rehabilitation and treatment programs, help with personal hygiene, and administer oral or injectable medications.

Starting Salary: $31,150

Median Salary: $39,700

Employment: 115,940

Psychiatrists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, treat, and help prevent mental disorders.

Starting Salary: $73,280

Median Salary: $124,070

Employment: 24,830

Psychologists, All Other

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

All psychologists not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $47,450

Median Salary: $117,750

Employment: 14,480

Psychology Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in psychology, such as child, clinical, and developmental psychology, and psychological counseling. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $49,790

Median Salary: $82,140

Employment: 40,610

Public Relations Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities designed to create or maintain a favorable public image or raise issue awareness for their organization or client.

Starting Salary: $76,160

Median Salary: $134,760

Employment: 72,760

Public Relations Specialists

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Promote or create an intended public image for individuals, groups, or organizations. May write or select material for release to various communications media. May specialize in using social media.

Starting Salary: $38,570

Median Salary: $66,750

Employment: 275,550

Public Safety Telecommunicators

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Operate telephone, radio, or other communication systems to receive and communicate requests for emergency assistance at 9-1-1 public safety answering points and emergency operations centers. Take information from the public and other sources regarding crimes, threats, disturbances, acts of terrorism, fires, medical emergencies, and other public safety matters. May coordinate and provide information to law enforcement and emergency response personnel. May access sensitive databases and other information sources as needed. May provide additional instructions to callers based on knowledge of and certification in law enforcement, fire, or emergency medical procedures.

Starting Salary: $33,490

Median Salary: $48,890

Employment: 97,820

Pump Operators, Except Wellhead Pumpers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Tend, control, or operate power-driven, stationary, or portable pumps and manifold systems to transfer gases, oil, other liquids, slurries, or powdered materials to and from various vessels and processes.

Starting Salary: $36,290

Median Salary: $54,690

Employment: 11,570

Purchasing Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate the activities of buyers, purchasing officers, and related workers involved in purchasing materials, products, and services. Includes wholesale or retail trade merchandising managers and procurement managers.

Starting Salary: $83,510

Median Salary: $136,380

Employment: 77,530

Quality Control Analysts

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Conduct tests to determine quality of raw materials, bulk intermediate and finished products. May conduct stability sample tests.

Starting Salary: $36,650

Median Salary: $58,350

Employment: 72,230

Quality Control Systems Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate quality assurance programs. Formulate quality control policies and control quality of laboratory and production efforts.

Starting Salary: $72,010

Median Salary: $116,970

Employment: 222,890

Radiation Therapists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Provide radiation therapy to patients as prescribed by a radiation oncologist according to established practices and standards. Duties may include reviewing prescription and diagnosis; acting as liaison with physician and supportive care personnel; preparing equipment, such as immobilization, treatment, and protection devices; and maintaining records, reports, and files. May assist in dosimetry procedures and tumor localization.

Starting Salary: $72,280

Median Salary: $98,300

Employment: 16,640

Radio Frequency Identification Device Specialists

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design and implement radio frequency identification device (RFID) systems used to track shipments or goods.

Starting Salary: $76,700

Median Salary: $119,200

Employment: 96,410

Radio, Cellular, and Tower Equipment Installers and Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair, install, or maintain mobile or stationary radio transmitting, broadcasting, and receiving equipment, and two-way radio communications systems used in cellular telecommunications, mobile broadband, ship-to-shore, aircraft-to-ground communications, and radio equipment in service and emergency vehicles. May test and analyze network coverage.

Starting Salary: $38,880

Median Salary: $61,310

Employment: 11,810

Radiologic Technologists and Technicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Take x-rays and CAT scans or administer nonradioactive materials into patient's bloodstream for diagnostic or research purposes. Includes radiologic technologists and technicians who specialize in other scanning modalities.

Starting Salary: $50,020

Median Salary: $73,410

Employment: 221,170

Radiologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose and treat diseases and injuries using medical imaging techniques, such as x rays, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), nuclear medicine, and ultrasounds. May perform minimally invasive medical procedures and tests.

Starting Salary: $79,760

Median Salary: $206,430

Employment: 31,960

Rail Car Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul railroad rolling stock, mine cars, or mass transit rail cars.

Starting Salary: $44,140

Median Salary: $65,030

Employment: 19,480

Rail Transportation Workers, All Other

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

All rail transportation workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $35,420

Median Salary: $44,660

Employment: 1,830

Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Drive switching or other locomotive or dinkey engines within railroad yard, industrial plant, quarry, construction project, or similar location.

Starting Salary: $38,800

Median Salary: $57,070

Employment: 2,430

Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators and Locomotive Firers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Operate or monitor railroad track switches or locomotive instruments. May couple or uncouple rolling stock to make up or break up trains. Watch for and relay traffic signals. May inspect couplings, air hoses, journal boxes, and hand brakes. May watch for dragging equipment or obstacles on rights-of-way.

Starting Salary: $44,350

Median Salary: $63,540

Employment: 13,610

Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Coordinate activities of switch-engine crew within railroad yard, industrial plant, or similar location. Conductors coordinate activities of train crew on passenger or freight trains. Yardmasters review train schedules and switching orders and coordinate activities of workers engaged in railroad traffic operations, such as the makeup or breakup of trains and yard switching.

Starting Salary: $54,610

Median Salary: $71,130

Employment: 46,490

Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Lay, repair, and maintain track for standard or narrow-gauge railroad equipment used in regular railroad service or in plant yards, quarries, sand and gravel pits, and mines. Includes ballast cleaning machine operators and railroad bed tamping machine operators.

Starting Salary: $46,350

Median Salary: $67,000

Employment: 18,770

Range Managers

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Research or study range land management practices to provide sustained production of forage, livestock, and wildlife.

Starting Salary: $42,850

Median Salary: $68,750

Employment: 22,790

Real Estate Brokers

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Operate real estate office, or work for commercial real estate firm, overseeing real estate transactions. Other duties usually include selling real estate or renting properties and arranging loans.

Starting Salary: $36,490

Median Salary: $63,060

Employment: 51,350

Real Estate Sales Agents

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Rent, buy, or sell property for clients. Perform duties such as study property listings, interview prospective clients, accompany clients to property site, discuss conditions of sale, and draw up real estate contracts. Includes agents who represent buyer.

Starting Salary: $31,410

Median Salary: $54,300

Employment: 197,720

Receptionists and Information Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Answer inquiries and provide information to the general public, customers, visitors, and other interested parties regarding activities conducted at establishment and location of departments, offices, and employees within the organization.

Starting Salary: $26,940

Median Salary: $35,840

Employment: 1,003,820

Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses pertaining to recreation, leisure, and fitness studies, including exercise physiology and facilities management. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $44,400

Median Salary: $75,770

Employment: 13,270

Recreation Workers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Conduct recreation activities with groups in public, private, or volunteer agencies or recreation facilities. Organize and promote activities, such as arts and crafts, sports, games, music, dramatics, social recreation, camping, and hobbies, taking into account the needs and interests of individual members.

Starting Salary: $24,040

Median Salary: $34,410

Employment: 281,750

Recreational Therapists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate medically-approved recreation programs for patients in hospitals, nursing homes, or other institutions. Activities include sports, trips, dramatics, social activities, and crafts. May assess a patient condition and recommend appropriate recreational activity.

Starting Salary: $37,960

Median Salary: $57,120

Employment: 15,540

Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Diagnose, inspect, adjust, repair, or overhaul recreational vehicles including travel trailers. May specialize in maintaining gas, electrical, hydraulic, plumbing, or chassis/towing systems as well as repairing generators, appliances, and interior components. Includes workers who perform customized van conversions.

Starting Salary: $33,660

Median Salary: $47,950

Employment: 17,360

Recycling and Reclamation Workers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Prepare and sort materials or products for recycling. Identify and remove hazardous substances. Dismantle components of products such as appliances.

Starting Salary: $29,480

Median Salary: $37,660

Employment: 3,008,300

Refractory Materials Repairers, Except Brickmasons

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Build or repair equipment such as furnaces, kilns, cupolas, boilers, converters, ladles, soaking pits, and ovens, using refractory materials.

Starting Salary: $31,130

Median Salary: $48,410

Employment: 540

Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Collect and dump refuse or recyclable materials from containers into truck. May drive truck.

Starting Salary: $30,050

Median Salary: $45,760

Employment: 135,430

Registered Nurses

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required.

Starting Salary: $63,720

Median Salary: $86,070

Employment: 3,175,390

Regulatory Affairs Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate production activities of an organization to ensure compliance with regulations and standard operating procedures.

Starting Salary: $67,370

Median Salary: $133,560

Employment: 589,750

Regulatory Affairs Specialists

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Coordinate and document internal regulatory processes, such as internal audits, inspections, license renewals, or registrations. May compile and prepare materials for submission to regulatory agencies.

Starting Salary: $43,790

Median Salary: $75,670

Employment: 383,620

Rehabilitation Counselors

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

Counsel individuals to maximize the independence and employability of persons coping with personal, social, and vocational difficulties that result from birth defects, illness, disease, accidents, aging, or the stress of daily life. Coordinate activities for residents of care and treatment facilities. Assess client needs and design and implement rehabilitation programs that may include personal and vocational counseling, training, and job placement.

Starting Salary: $31,390

Median Salary: $44,040

Employment: 84,750

Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Position and secure steel bars or mesh in concrete forms in order to reinforce concrete. Use a variety of fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, and hand tools. Includes rod busters.

Starting Salary: $38,260

Median Salary: $54,850

Employment: 17,400

Religious Workers, All Other

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

All religious workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $28,530

Median Salary: $37,960

Employment: 11,870

Remote Sensing Scientists and Technologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Apply remote sensing principles and methods to analyze data and solve problems in areas such as natural resource management, urban planning, or homeland security. May develop new sensor systems, analytical techniques, or new applications for existing systems.

Starting Salary: $59,590

Median Salary: $112,280

Employment: 20,820

Remote Sensing Technicians

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Apply remote sensing technologies to assist scientists in areas such as natural resources, urban planning, or homeland security. May prepare flight plans or sensor configurations for flight trips.

Starting Salary: $36,650

Median Salary: $58,350

Employment: 72,230

Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Make and confirm reservations for transportation or lodging, or sell transportation tickets. May check baggage and direct passengers to designated concourse, pier, or track; deliver tickets and contact individuals and groups to inform them of package tours; or provide tourists with travel or transportation information.

Starting Salary: $31,900

Median Salary: $40,610

Employment: 119,270

Residential Advisors

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Coordinate activities in resident facilities in secondary school and college dormitories, group homes, or similar establishments. Order supplies and determine need for maintenance, repairs, and furnishings. May maintain household records and assign rooms. May assist residents with problem solving or refer them to counseling resources.

Starting Salary: $27,520

Median Salary: $37,950

Employment: 88,700

Respiratory Therapists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assess, treat, and care for patients with breathing disorders. Assume primary responsibility for all respiratory care modalities, including the supervision of respiratory therapy technicians. Initiate and conduct therapeutic procedures; maintain patient records; and select, assemble, check, and operate equipment.

Starting Salary: $59,180

Median Salary: $77,960

Employment: 129,750

Retail Loss Prevention Specialists

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Implement procedures and systems to prevent merchandise loss. Conduct audits and investigations of employee activity. May assist in developing policies, procedures, and systems for safeguarding assets.

Starting Salary: $30,920

Median Salary: $39,360

Employment: 82,500

Retail Salespersons

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Sell merchandise, such as furniture, motor vehicles, appliances, or apparel to consumers.

Starting Salary: $23,740

Median Salary: $33,680

Employment: 3,684,740

Riggers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Set up or repair rigging for construction projects, manufacturing plants, logging yards, ships and shipyards, or for the entertainment industry.

Starting Salary: $37,420

Median Salary: $56,220

Employment: 23,870

Robotics Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Research, design, develop, or test robotic applications.

Starting Salary: $62,130

Median Salary: $111,970

Employment: 150,990

Robotics Technicians

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Build, install, test, or maintain robotic equipment or related automated production systems.

Starting Salary: $44,210

Median Salary: $65,080

Employment: 15,360

Rock Splitters, Quarry

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Separate blocks of rough dimension stone from quarry mass using jackhammers, wedges, or chop saws.

Starting Salary: $32,050

Median Salary: $46,530

Employment: 3,610

Rolling Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend machines to roll steel or plastic forming bends, beads, knurls, rolls, or plate, or to flatten, temper, or reduce gauge of material.

Starting Salary: $35,690

Median Salary: $47,040

Employment: 24,750

Roof Bolters, Mining

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Operate machinery to install roof support bolts in underground mine.

Starting Salary: $53,970

Median Salary: $66,660

Employment: 1,960

Roofers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Cover roofs of structures with shingles, slate, asphalt, aluminum, wood, or related materials. May spray roofs, sidings, and walls with material to bind, seal, insulate, or soundproof sections of structures.

Starting Salary: $36,240

Median Salary: $50,030

Employment: 135,140

Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Set up or operate a variety of drills to remove underground oil and gas, or remove core samples for testing during oil and gas exploration.

Starting Salary: $40,290

Median Salary: $61,770

Employment: 12,180

Roustabouts, Oil and Gas

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Assemble or repair oil field equipment using hand and power tools. Perform other tasks as needed.

Starting Salary: $35,150

Median Salary: $46,340

Employment: 43,830

Sailors and Marine Oilers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Stand watch to look for obstructions in path of vessel, measure water depth, turn wheel on bridge, or use emergency equipment as directed by captain, mate, or pilot. Break out, rig, overhaul, and store cargo-handling gear, stationary rigging, and running gear. Perform a variety of maintenance tasks to preserve the painted surface of the ship and to maintain line and ship equipment. Must hold government-issued certification and tankerman certification when working aboard liquid-carrying vessels. Includes able seamen and ordinary seamen.

Starting Salary: $32,240

Median Salary: $48,400

Employment: 29,960

Sales and Related Workers, All Other

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

All sales and related workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $27,250

Median Salary: $44,610

Employment: 114,280

Sales Engineers

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Sell business goods or services, the selling of which requires a technical background equivalent to a baccalaureate degree in engineering.

Starting Salary: $67,760

Median Salary: $116,950

Employment: 59,340

Sales Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate the actual distribution or movement of a product or service to the customer. Coordinate sales distribution by establishing sales territories, quotas, and goals and establish training programs for sales representatives. Analyze sales statistics gathered by staff to determine sales potential and inventory requirements and monitor the preferences of customers.

Starting Salary: $63,700

Median Salary: $135,160

Employment: 575,880

Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Sell services to individuals or businesses. May describe options or resolve client problems.

Starting Salary: $36,430

Median Salary: $64,600

Employment: 1,142,020

Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers to businesses or groups of individuals. Work requires substantial knowledge of items sold.

Starting Salary: $37,240

Median Salary: $65,630

Employment: 1,288,920

Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers where technical or scientific knowledge is required in such areas as biology, engineering, chemistry, and electronics, normally obtained from at least 2 years of postsecondary education.

Starting Salary: $48,140

Median Salary: $99,710

Employment: 311,780

Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend wood sawing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment. Includes lead sawyers.

Starting Salary: $28,790

Median Salary: $38,000

Employment: 43,570

School Bus Monitors

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Maintain order among students on a school bus. Duties include helping students safely board and exit and communicating behavioral problems. May perform pretrip and posttrip inspections and prepare for and assist in emergency evacuations.

Starting Salary: $26,530

Median Salary: $33,130

Employment: 72,320

School Psychologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Diagnose and implement individual or schoolwide interventions or strategies to address educational, behavioral, or developmental issues that adversely impact educational functioning in a school. May address student learning and behavioral problems and counsel students or families. May design and implement performance plans, and evaluate performance. May consult with other school-based personnel.

Starting Salary: $59,250

Median Salary: $84,940

Employment: 62,790

Search Marketing Strategists

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Employ search marketing tactics to increase visibility and engagement with content, products, or services in Internet-enabled devices or interfaces. Examine search query behaviors on general or specialty search engines or other Internet-based content. Analyze research, data, or technology to understand user intent and measure outcomes for ongoing optimization.

Starting Salary: $40,040

Median Salary: $74,680

Employment: 846,370

Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach one or more subjects to students at the secondary school level.

Starting Salary: $48,040

Median Salary: $65,220

Employment: 1,045,170

Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Perform routine administrative functions such as drafting correspondence, scheduling appointments, organizing and maintaining paper and electronic files, or providing information to callers.

Starting Salary: $30,280

Median Salary: $44,280

Employment: 1,785,430

Securities, Commodities, and Financial Services Sales Agents

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Buy and sell securities or commodities in investment and trading firms, or provide financial services to businesses and individuals. May advise customers about stocks, bonds, mutual funds, commodities, and market conditions.

Starting Salary: $45,420

Median Salary: $76,900

Employment: 479,630

Security and Fire Alarm Systems Installers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install, program, maintain, and repair security and fire alarm wiring and equipment. Ensure that work is in accordance with relevant codes.

Starting Salary: $36,790

Median Salary: $56,430

Employment: 83,540

Security Guards

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Guard, patrol, or monitor premises to prevent theft, violence, or infractions of rules. May operate x-ray and metal detector equipment.

Starting Salary: $28,500

Median Salary: $37,070

Employment: 1,202,940

Security Management Specialists

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Conduct security assessments for organizations, and design security systems and processes. May specialize in areas such as physical security or the safety of employees and facilities.

Starting Salary: $44,370

Median Salary: $79,590

Employment: 1,103,440

Security Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Direct an organization's security functions, including physical security and safety of employees and facilities.

Starting Salary: $60,840

Median Salary: $102,340

Employment: 131,400

Self-Enrichment Teachers

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach or instruct individuals or groups for the primary purpose of self-enrichment or recreation, rather than for an occupational objective, educational attainment, competition, or fitness.

Starting Salary: $28,600

Median Salary: $45,330

Employment: 272,110

Semiconductor Processing Technicians

Industries: Production Occupations

Perform any or all of the following functions in the manufacture of electronic semiconductors: load semiconductor material into furnace; saw formed ingots into segments; load individual segment into crystal growing chamber and monitor controls; locate crystal axis in ingot using x-ray equipment and saw ingots into wafers; and clean, polish, and load wafers into series of special purpose furnaces, chemical baths, and equipment used to form circuitry and change conductive properties.

Starting Salary: $31,610

Median Salary: $45,850

Employment: 26,450

Separating, Filtering, Clarifying, Precipitating, and Still Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend continuous flow or vat-type equipment; filter presses; shaker screens; centrifuges; condenser tubes; precipitating, fermenting, or evaporating tanks; scrubbing towers; or batch stills. These machines extract, sort, or separate liquids, gases, or solids from other materials to recover a refined product. Includes dairy processing equipment operators.

Starting Salary: $34,100

Median Salary: $48,120

Employment: 53,170

Septic Tank Servicers and Sewer Pipe Cleaners

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Clean and repair septic tanks, sewer lines, or drains. May patch walls and partitions of tank, replace damaged drain tile, or repair breaks in underground piping.

Starting Salary: $33,890

Median Salary: $46,910

Employment: 27,900

Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Operate equipment to increase oil flow from producing wells or to remove stuck pipe, casing, tools, or other obstructions from drilling wells. Includes fishing-tool technicians.

Starting Salary: $38,090

Median Salary: $55,750

Employment: 46,150

Set and Exhibit Designers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Design special exhibits and sets for film, video, television, and theater productions. May study scripts, confer with directors, and conduct research to determine appropriate architectural styles.

Starting Salary: $32,240

Median Salary: $59,490

Employment: 10,090

Sewers, Hand

Industries: Production Occupations

Sew, join, reinforce, or finish, usually with needle and thread, a variety of manufactured items. Includes weavers and stitchers.

Starting Salary: $26,000

Median Salary: $32,240

Employment: 3,390

Sewing Machine Operators

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or tend sewing machines to join, reinforce, decorate, or perform related sewing operations in the manufacture of garment or nongarment products.

Starting Salary: $25,360

Median Salary: $34,440

Employment: 116,130

Shampooers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Shampoo and rinse customers' hair.

Starting Salary: $22,190

Median Salary: $29,530

Employment: 7,360

Sheet Metal Workers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Fabricate, assemble, install, and repair sheet metal products and equipment, such as ducts, control boxes, drainpipes, and furnace casings. Work may involve any of the following: setting up and operating fabricating machines to cut, bend, and straighten sheet metal; shaping metal over anvils, blocks, or forms using hammer; operating soldering and welding equipment to join sheet metal parts; or inspecting, assembling, and smoothing seams and joints of burred surfaces. Includes sheet metal duct installers who install prefabricated sheet metal ducts used for heating, air conditioning, or other purposes.

Starting Salary: $37,000

Median Salary: $58,780

Employment: 116,190

Ship Engineers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Supervise and coordinate activities of crew engaged in operating and maintaining engines, boilers, deck machinery, and electrical, sanitary, and refrigeration equipment aboard ship.

Starting Salary: $57,140

Median Salary: $94,270

Employment: 8,860

Shipping, Receiving, and Inventory Clerks

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Verify and maintain records on incoming and outgoing shipments involving inventory. Duties include verifying and recording incoming merchandise or material and arranging for the transportation of products. May prepare items for shipment.

Starting Salary: $30,620

Median Salary: $39,780

Employment: 844,120

Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers

Industries: Production Occupations

Construct, decorate, or repair leather and leather-like products, such as luggage, shoes, and saddles. May use hand tools.

Starting Salary: $25,620

Median Salary: $36,020

Employment: 7,230

Shoe Machine Operators and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or tend a variety of machines to join, decorate, reinforce, or finish shoes and shoe parts.

Starting Salary: $27,950

Median Salary: $36,970

Employment: 4,630

Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Drive a motor vehicle to transport passengers on a planned or scheduled basis. May collect a fare. Includes nonemergency medical transporters and hearse drivers.

Starting Salary: $25,750

Median Salary: $35,240

Employment: 204,930

Signal and Track Switch Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install, inspect, test, maintain, or repair electric gate crossings, signals, signal equipment, track switches, section lines, or intercommunications systems within a railroad system.

Starting Salary: $61,910

Median Salary: $82,710

Employment: 9,200

Skincare Specialists

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Provide skincare treatments to face and body to enhance an individual's appearance. Includes electrologists and laser hair removal specialists.

Starting Salary: $27,600

Median Salary: $43,200

Employment: 65,270

Slaughterers and Meat Packers

Industries: Production Occupations

Perform nonroutine or precision functions involving the preparation of large portions of meat. Work may include specialized slaughtering tasks, cutting standard or premium cuts of meat for marketing, making sausage, or wrapping meats. Work typically occurs in slaughtering, meat packing, or wholesale establishments.

Starting Salary: $30,450

Median Salary: $38,160

Employment: 71,310

Social and Community Service Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate the activities of a social service program or community outreach organization. Oversee the program or organization's budget and policies regarding participant involvement, program requirements, and benefits. Work may involve directing social workers, counselors, or probation officers.

Starting Salary: $48,880

Median Salary: $77,030

Employment: 173,650

Social and Human Service Assistants

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

Assist other social and human service providers in providing client services in a wide variety of fields, such as psychology, rehabilitation, or social work, including support for families. May assist clients in identifying and obtaining available benefits and social and community services. May assist social workers with developing, organizing, and conducting programs to prevent and resolve problems relevant to substance abuse, human relationships, rehabilitation, or dependent care.

Starting Salary: $30,720

Median Salary: $41,410

Employment: 409,310

Social Science Research Assistants

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Assist social scientists in laboratory, survey, and other social science research. May help prepare findings for publication and assist in laboratory analysis, quality control, or data management.

Starting Salary: $37,080

Median Salary: $56,400

Employment: 30,890

Social Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary, All Other

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

All postsecondary social sciences teachers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $43,890

Median Salary: $77,750

Employment: 16,900

Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

All social scientists and related workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $59,010

Median Salary: $95,890

Employment: 35,210

Social Work Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in social work. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $46,790

Median Salary: $75,020

Employment: 11,730

Social Workers, All Other

Industries: Community and Social Service Occupations

All social workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $39,580

Median Salary: $63,770

Employment: 58,460

Sociologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Study human society and social behavior by examining the groups and social institutions that people form, as well as various social, religious, political, and business organizations. May study the behavior and interaction of groups, trace their origin and growth, and analyze the influence of group activities on individual members.

Starting Salary: $59,960

Median Salary: $101,770

Employment: 2,890

Sociology Teachers, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach courses in sociology. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Starting Salary: $49,900

Median Salary: $82,670

Employment: 12,870

Software Developers

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Research, design, and develop computer and network software or specialized utility programs. Analyze user needs and develop software solutions, applying principles and techniques of computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis. Update software or enhance existing software capabilities. May work with computer hardware engineers to integrate hardware and software systems, and develop specifications and performance requirements. May maintain databases within an application area, working individually or coordinating database development as part of a team.

Starting Salary: $77,020

Median Salary: $132,270

Employment: 1,656,880

Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Develop and execute software tests to identify software problems and their causes. Test system modifications to prepare for implementation. Document software and application defects using a bug tracking system and report defects to software or web developers. Create and maintain databases of known defects. May participate in software design reviews to provide input on functional requirements, operational characteristics, product designs, and schedules.

Starting Salary: $58,740

Median Salary: $101,800

Employment: 203,040

Soil and Plant Scientists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Conduct research in breeding, physiology, production, yield, and management of crops and agricultural plants or trees, shrubs, and nursery stock, their growth in soils, and control of pests; or study the chemical, physical, biological, and mineralogical composition of soils as they relate to plant or crop growth. May classify and map soils and investigate effects of alternative practices on soil and crop productivity.

Starting Salary: $43,790

Median Salary: $68,240

Employment: 15,800

Solar Energy Installation Managers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Direct work crews installing residential or commercial solar photovoltaic or thermal systems.

Starting Salary: $49,420

Median Salary: $76,760

Employment: 777,420

Solar Energy Systems Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Perform site-specific engineering analysis or evaluation of energy efficiency and solar projects involving residential, commercial, or industrial customers. Design solar domestic hot water and space heating systems for new and existing structures, applying knowledge of structural energy requirements, local climates, solar technology, and thermodynamics.

Starting Salary: $62,130

Median Salary: $111,970

Employment: 150,990

Solar Photovoltaic Installers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Assemble, install, or maintain solar photovoltaic (PV) systems on roofs or other structures in compliance with site assessment and schematics. May include measuring, cutting, assembling, and bolting structural framing and solar modules. May perform minor electrical work such as current checks.

Starting Salary: $37,920

Median Salary: $48,800

Employment: 24,510

Solar Sales Representatives and Assessors

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Contact new or existing customers to determine their solar equipment needs, suggest systems or equipment, or estimate costs.

Starting Salary: $48,140

Median Salary: $99,710

Employment: 311,780

Solar Thermal Installers and Technicians

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Install or repair solar energy systems designed to collect, store, and circulate solar-heated water for residential, commercial or industrial use.

Starting Salary: $38,690

Median Salary: $61,550

Employment: 436,160

Sound Engineering Technicians

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Assemble and operate equipment to record, synchronize, mix, edit, or reproduce sound, including music, voices, or sound effects, for theater, video, film, television, podcasts, sporting events, and other productions.

Starting Salary: $36,160

Median Salary: $59,430

Employment: 14,600

Spa Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate activities of a spa facility. Coordinate programs, schedule and direct staff, and oversee financial activities.

Starting Salary: $31,000

Median Salary: $57,570

Employment: 11,170

Special Education Teachers, All Other

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

All special education teachers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $43,530

Median Salary: $67,190

Employment: 43,700

Special Education Teachers, Middle School

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach academic, social, and life skills to middle school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.

Starting Salary: $48,140

Median Salary: $66,600

Employment: 88,850

Special Education Teachers, Preschool

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach academic, social, and life skills to preschool-aged students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.

Starting Salary: $41,250

Median Salary: $65,270

Employment: 24,850

Special Education Teachers, Secondary School

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach academic, social, and life skills to secondary school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.

Starting Salary: $47,950

Median Salary: $66,620

Employment: 158,150

Special Effects Artists and Animators

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Create special effects or animations using film, video, computers, or other electronic tools and media for use in products, such as computer games, movies, music videos, and commercials.

Starting Salary: $57,090

Median Salary: $99,060

Employment: 29,940

Speech-Language Pathologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assess and treat persons with speech, language, voice, and fluency disorders. May select alternative communication systems and teach their use. May perform research related to speech and language problems.

Starting Salary: $57,910

Median Salary: $89,290

Employment: 172,100

Speech-Language Pathology Assistants

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Assist speech-language pathologists in the assessment and treatment of speech, language, voice, and fluency disorders. Implement speech and language programs or activities as planned and directed by speech-language pathologists. Monitor the use of alternative communication devices and systems.

Starting Salary: $31,630

Median Salary: $44,490

Employment: 102,230

Sports Medicine Physicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, treat, and help prevent injuries that occur during sporting events, athletic training, and physical activities.

Starting Salary: $66,260

Median Salary: $236,000

Employment: 310,080

Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or maintain stationary engines, boilers, or other mechanical equipment to provide utilities for buildings or industrial processes. Operate equipment such as steam engines, generators, motors, turbines, and steam boilers.

Starting Salary: $41,360

Median Salary: $67,640

Employment: 33,840

Statistical Assistants

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Compile and compute data according to statistical formulas for use in statistical studies. May perform actuarial computations and compile charts and graphs for use by actuaries. Includes actuarial clerks.

Starting Salary: $35,460

Median Salary: $50,510

Employment: 7,200

Statisticians

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Develop or apply mathematical or statistical theory and methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data to provide usable information. May specialize in fields such as biostatistics, agricultural statistics, business statistics, or economic statistics. Includes mathematical and survey statisticians.

Starting Salary: $58,690

Median Salary: $104,110

Employment: 29,950

Stockers and Order Fillers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Receive, store, and issue merchandise, materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard to fill shelves, racks, tables, or customers' orders. May operate power equipment to fill orders. May mark prices on merchandise and set up sales displays.

Starting Salary: $29,150

Median Salary: $36,390

Employment: 2,872,680

Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing

Industries: Production Occupations

Cut or carve stone according to diagrams and patterns.

Starting Salary: $32,540

Median Salary: $43,310

Employment: 38,480

Stonemasons

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Build stone structures, such as piers, walls, and abutments. Lay walks, curbstones, or special types of masonry for vats, tanks, and floors.

Starting Salary: $36,530

Median Salary: $51,830

Employment: 9,790

Structural Iron and Steel Workers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Raise, place, and unite iron or steel girders, columns, and other structural members to form completed structures or structural frameworks. May erect metal storage tanks and assemble prefabricated metal buildings.

Starting Salary: $40,510

Median Salary: $62,760

Employment: 63,780

Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

Industries: Production Occupations

Fabricate, position, align, and fit parts of structural metal products.

Starting Salary: $36,180

Median Salary: $48,480

Employment: 57,810

Substitute Teachers, Short-Term

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Teach students on a short-term basis as a temporary replacement for a regular classroom teacher, typically using the regular teacher's lesson plan.

Starting Salary: $24,420

Median Salary: $37,380

Employment: 444,530

Subway and Streetcar Operators

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Operate subway or elevated suburban trains with no separate locomotive, or electric-powered streetcar, to transport passengers. May handle fares.

Starting Salary: $54,690

Median Salary: $84,270

Employment: 14,860

Supply Chain Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Direct or coordinate production, purchasing, warehousing, distribution, or financial forecasting services or activities to limit costs and improve accuracy, customer service, or safety. Examine existing procedures or opportunities for streamlining activities to meet product distribution needs. Direct the movement, storage, or processing of inventory.

Starting Salary: $58,810

Median Salary: $99,200

Employment: 198,780

Surgeons, All Other

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

All surgeons not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $78,000

Median Salary: $120,000

Employment: 26,370

Surgical Assistants

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assist in operations, under the supervision of surgeons. May, in accordance with state laws, help surgeons to make incisions and close surgical sites, manipulate or remove tissues, implant surgical devices or drains, suction the surgical site, place catheters, clamp or cauterize vessels or tissue, and apply dressings to surgical site.

Starting Salary: $37,210

Median Salary: $59,160

Employment: 18,780

Surgical Technologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Assist in operations, under the supervision of surgeons, registered nurses, or other surgical personnel. May help set up operating room, prepare and transport patients for surgery, adjust lights and equipment, pass instruments and other supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants, hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments.

Starting Salary: $40,640

Median Salary: $60,610

Employment: 110,320

Survey Researchers

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Plan, develop, or conduct surveys. May analyze and interpret the meaning of survey data, determine survey objectives, or suggest or test question wording. Includes social scientists who primarily design questionnaires or supervise survey teams.

Starting Salary: $30,790

Median Salary: $60,960

Employment: 8,190

Surveying and Mapping Technicians

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Perform surveying and mapping duties, usually under the direction of an engineer, surveyor, cartographer, or photogrammetrist, to obtain data used for construction, mapmaking, boundary location, mining, or other purposes. May calculate mapmaking information and create maps from source data, such as surveying notes, aerial photography, satellite data, or other maps to show topographical features, political boundaries, and other features. May verify accuracy and completeness of maps.

Starting Salary: $35,080

Median Salary: $48,940

Employment: 56,050

Surveyors

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries. Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.

Starting Salary: $41,430

Median Salary: $68,540

Employment: 50,740

Sustainability Specialists

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Address organizational sustainability issues, such as waste stream management, green building practices, and green procurement plans.

Starting Salary: $44,370

Median Salary: $79,590

Employment: 1,103,440

Switchboard Operators, Including Answering Service

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Operate telephone business systems equipment or switchboards to relay incoming, outgoing, and interoffice calls. May supply information to callers and record messages.

Starting Salary: $28,030

Median Salary: $36,750

Employment: 43,830

Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers

Industries: Production Occupations

Design, make, alter, repair, or fit garments.

Starting Salary: $27,560

Median Salary: $36,650

Employment: 14,950

Talent Directors

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Audition and interview performers to select most appropriate talent for parts in stage, television, radio, or motion picture productions.

Starting Salary: $42,040

Median Salary: $82,510

Employment: 154,470

Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Load and unload chemicals and bulk solids, such as coal, sand, and grain, into or from tank cars, trucks, or ships, using material moving equipment. May perform a variety of other tasks relating to shipment of products. May gauge or sample shipping tanks and test them for leaks.

Starting Salary: $38,850

Median Salary: $58,620

Employment: 11,400

Tapers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Seal joints between plasterboard or other wallboard to prepare wall surface for painting or papering.

Starting Salary: $43,870

Median Salary: $63,350

Employment: 15,560

Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Determine tax liability or collect taxes from individuals or business firms according to prescribed laws and regulations.

Starting Salary: $37,690

Median Salary: $58,530

Employment: 50,250

Tax Preparers

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Prepare tax returns for individuals or small businesses.

Starting Salary: $29,170

Median Salary: $49,010

Employment: 81,650

Taxi Drivers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Drive a motor vehicle to transport passengers on an unplanned basis and charge a fare, usually based on a meter.

Starting Salary: $27,040

Median Salary: $34,680

Employment: 17,770

Teachers and Instructors, All Other

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

All teachers and instructors not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $32,740

Median Salary: $64,390

Employment: 118,290

Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Assist faculty or other instructional staff in postsecondary institutions by performing instructional support activities, such as developing teaching materials, leading discussion groups, preparing and giving examinations, and grading examinations or papers.

Starting Salary: $29,540

Median Salary: $43,750

Employment: 145,960

Technical Writers

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Write technical materials, such as equipment manuals, appendices, or operating and maintenance instructions. May assist in layout work.

Starting Salary: $48,630

Median Salary: $80,050

Employment: 47,970

Telecommunications Engineering Specialists

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Design or configure wired, wireless, and satellite communications systems for voice, video, and data services. Supervise installation, service, and maintenance.

Starting Salary: $77,960

Median Salary: $129,840

Employment: 174,100

Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install, set up, rearrange, or remove switching, distribution, routing, and dialing equipment used in central offices or headends. Service or repair telephone, cable television, Internet, and other communications equipment on customers' property. May install communications equipment or communications wiring in buildings.

Starting Salary: $38,360

Median Salary: $61,270

Employment: 159,670

Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install and repair telecommunications cable, including fiber optics.

Starting Salary: $40,180

Median Salary: $64,640

Employment: 98,950

Telemarketers

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Solicit donations or orders for goods or services over the telephone.

Starting Salary: $24,430

Median Salary: $34,480

Employment: 81,580

Telephone Operators

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Provide information by accessing alphabetical, geographical, or other directories. Assist customers with special billing requests, such as charges to a third party and credits or refunds for incorrectly dialed numbers or bad connections. May handle emergency calls and assist children or people with physical disabilities to make telephone calls.

Starting Salary: $29,770

Median Salary: $38,080

Employment: 4,600

Tellers

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Receive and pay out money. Keep records of money and negotiable instruments involved in a financial institution's various transactions.

Starting Salary: $29,720

Median Salary: $37,640

Employment: 340,820

Terrazzo Workers and Finishers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Apply a mixture of cement, sand, pigment, or marble chips to floors, stairways, and cabinet fixtures to fashion durable and decorative surfaces.

Starting Salary: $34,990

Median Salary: $48,900

Employment: 1,460

Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Machine Operators and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or tend machines to bleach, shrink, wash, dye, or finish textiles or synthetic or glass fibers.

Starting Salary: $27,580

Median Salary: $35,340

Employment: 6,650

Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend machines that cut textiles.

Starting Salary: $27,540

Median Salary: $36,620

Employment: 9,760

Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend machines that knit, loop, weave, or draw in textiles.

Starting Salary: $28,700

Median Salary: $37,130

Employment: 15,980

Textile Winding, Twisting, and Drawing Out Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend machines that wind or twist textiles; or draw out and combine sliver, such as wool, hemp, or synthetic fibers. Includes slubber machine and drawing frame operators.

Starting Salary: $29,530

Median Salary: $35,530

Employment: 23,550

Textile, Apparel, and Furnishings Workers, All Other

Industries: Production Occupations

All textile, apparel, and furnishings workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $28,030

Median Salary: $35,130

Employment: 15,080

Therapists, All Other

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

All therapists not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $40,790

Median Salary: $63,650

Employment: 16,490

Tile and Stone Setters

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Apply hard tile, stone, and comparable materials to walls, floors, ceilings, countertops, and roof decks.

Starting Salary: $33,120

Median Salary: $48,910

Employment: 42,420

Timing Device Assemblers and Adjusters

Industries: Production Occupations

Perform precision assembling or adjusting, within narrow tolerances, of timing devices such as digital clocks or timing devices with electrical or electronic components.

Starting Salary: $37,800

Median Salary: $48,840

Employment: 400

Tire Builders

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate machines to build tires.

Starting Salary: $37,940

Median Salary: $54,080

Employment: 20,660

Tire Repairers and Changers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair and replace tires.

Starting Salary: $28,820

Median Salary: $35,790

Employment: 101,520

Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers

Industries: Legal Occupations

Search real estate records, examine titles, or summarize pertinent legal or insurance documents or details for a variety of purposes. May compile lists of mortgages, contracts, and other instruments pertaining to titles by searching public and private records for law firms, real estate agencies, or title insurance companies.

Starting Salary: $36,400

Median Salary: $53,550

Employment: 49,760

Tool and Die Makers

Industries: Production Occupations

Analyze specifications, lay out metal stock, set up and operate machine tools, and fit and assemble parts to make and repair dies, cutting tools, jigs, fixtures, gauges, and machinists' hand tools.

Starting Salary: $40,560

Median Salary: $61,490

Employment: 58,150

Tool Grinders, Filers, and Sharpeners

Industries: Production Occupations

Perform precision smoothing, sharpening, polishing, or grinding of metal objects.

Starting Salary: $32,020

Median Salary: $46,410

Employment: 6,660

Traffic Technicians

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Conduct field studies to determine traffic volume, speed, effectiveness of signals, adequacy of lighting, and other factors influencing traffic conditions, under direction of traffic engineer.

Starting Salary: $36,290

Median Salary: $52,240

Employment: 7,530

Training and Development Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate the training and development activities and staff of an organization.

Starting Salary: $73,410

Median Salary: $125,040

Employment: 41,540

Training and Development Specialists

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Design or conduct work-related training and development programs to improve individual skills or organizational performance. May analyze organizational training needs or evaluate training effectiveness.

Starting Salary: $36,050

Median Salary: $64,340

Employment: 403,480

Transit and Railroad Police

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Protect and police railroad and transit property, employees, or passengers.

Starting Salary: $52,550

Median Salary: $72,250

Employment: 2,360

Transportation Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Develop plans for surface transportation projects, according to established engineering standards and state or federal construction policy. Prepare designs, specifications, or estimates for transportation facilities. Plan modifications of existing streets, highways, or freeways to improve traffic flow.

Starting Salary: $63,220

Median Salary: $95,890

Employment: 327,950

Transportation Inspectors

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Inspect equipment or goods in connection with the safe transport of cargo or people. Includes rail transportation inspectors, such as freight inspectors, rail inspectors, and other inspectors of transportation vehicles not elsewhere classified.

Starting Salary: $39,790

Median Salary: $87,290

Employment: 27,670

Transportation Planners

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Prepare studies for proposed transportation projects. Gather, compile, and analyze data. Study the use and operation of transportation systems. Develop transportation models or simulations.

Starting Salary: $59,010

Median Salary: $95,890

Employment: 35,210

Transportation Security Screeners

Industries: Protective Service Occupations

Conduct screening of passengers, baggage, or cargo to ensure compliance with Transportation Security Administration (TSA) regulations. May operate basic security equipment such as x-ray machines and hand wands at screening checkpoints.

Starting Salary: $40,270

Median Salary: $50,020

Employment: 47,950

Transportation Vehicle, Equipment and Systems Inspectors, Except Aviation

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Inspect and monitor transportation equipment, vehicles, or systems to ensure compliance with regulations and safety standards.

Starting Salary: $39,790

Median Salary: $87,290

Employment: 27,670

Transportation Workers, All Other

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

All transportation workers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $27,340

Median Salary: $40,300

Employment: 10,940

Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate transportation, storage, or distribution activities in accordance with organizational policies and applicable government laws or regulations. Includes logistics managers.

Starting Salary: $58,810

Median Salary: $99,200

Employment: 198,780

Travel Agents

Industries: Sales and Related Occupations

Plan and sell transportation and accommodations for customers. Determine destination, modes of transportation, travel dates, costs, and accommodations required. May also describe, plan, and arrange itineraries and sell tour packages. May assist in resolving clients' travel problems.

Starting Salary: $30,580

Median Salary: $47,410

Employment: 58,250

Treasurers and Controllers

Industries: Management Occupations

Direct financial activities, such as planning, procurement, and investments for all or part of an organization.

Starting Salary: $82,870

Median Salary: $156,100

Employment: 787,340

Tree Trimmers and Pruners

Industries: Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

Using sophisticated climbing and rigging techniques, cut away dead or excess branches from trees or shrubs to maintain right-of-way for roads, sidewalks, or utilities, or to improve appearance, health, and value of tree. Prune or treat trees or shrubs using handsaws, hand pruners, clippers, and power pruners. Works off the ground in the tree canopy and may use truck-mounted lifts.

Starting Salary: $34,450

Median Salary: $49,070

Employment: 50,270

Tutors

Industries: Education, Training, and Library Occupations

Instruct individual students or small groups of students in academic subjects to support formal class instruction or to prepare students for standardized or admissions tests.

Starting Salary: $27,710

Median Salary: $39,580

Employment: 162,300

Umpires, Referees, and Other Sports Officials

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Officiate at competitive athletic or sporting events. Detect infractions of rules and decide penalties according to established regulations. Includes all sporting officials, referees, and competition judges.

Starting Salary: $22,950

Median Salary: $35,820

Employment: 14,840

Underground Mining Machine Operators, All Other

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

All underground mining machine operators not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $40,140

Median Salary: $68,910

Employment: 2,560

Upholsterers

Industries: Production Occupations

Make, repair, or replace upholstery for household furniture or transportation vehicles.

Starting Salary: $30,450

Median Salary: $42,730

Employment: 25,740

Urban and Regional Planners

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Develop comprehensive plans and programs for use of land and physical facilities of jurisdictions, such as towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.

Starting Salary: $51,470

Median Salary: $81,800

Employment: 42,690

Urologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, treat, and help prevent benign and malignant medical and surgical disorders of the genitourinary system and the renal glands.

Starting Salary: $66,260

Median Salary: $236,000

Employment: 310,080

Ushers, Lobby Attendants, and Ticket Takers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Assist patrons at entertainment events by performing duties, such as collecting admission tickets and passes from patrons, assisting in finding seats, searching for lost articles, and helping patrons locate such facilities as restrooms and telephones.

Starting Salary: $21,730

Median Salary: $29,780

Employment: 117,560

Validation Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design or plan protocols for equipment or processes to produce products meeting internal and external purity, safety, and quality requirements.

Starting Salary: $65,320

Median Salary: $99,380

Employment: 332,870

Veterinarians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, treat, or research diseases and injuries of animals. Includes veterinarians who conduct research and development, inspect livestock, or care for pets and companion animals.

Starting Salary: $72,360

Median Salary: $119,100

Employment: 78,220

Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers

Industries: Healthcare Support Occupations

Feed, water, and examine pets and other nonfarm animals for signs of illness, disease, or injury in laboratories and animal hospitals and clinics. Clean and disinfect cages and work areas, and sterilize laboratory and surgical equipment. May provide routine postoperative care, administer medication orally or topically, or prepare samples for laboratory examination under the supervision of veterinary or laboratory animal technologists or technicians, veterinarians, or scientists.

Starting Salary: $28,550

Median Salary: $36,440

Employment: 115,770

Veterinary Technologists and Technicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Perform medical tests in a laboratory environment for use in the treatment and diagnosis of diseases in animals. Prepare vaccines and serums for prevention of diseases. Prepare tissue samples, take blood samples, and execute laboratory tests, such as urinalysis and blood counts. Clean and sterilize instruments and materials and maintain equipment and machines. May assist a veterinarian during surgery.

Starting Salary: $30,180

Median Salary: $43,740

Employment: 122,000

Video Game Designers

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Design core features of video games. Specify innovative game and role-play mechanics, story lines, and character biographies. Create and maintain design documentation. Guide and collaborate with production staff to produce games as designed.

Starting Salary: $48,210

Median Salary: $98,540

Employment: 111,060

Waiters and Waitresses

Industries: Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations

Take orders and serve food and beverages to patrons at tables in dining establishment.

Starting Salary: $18,600

Median Salary: $31,940

Employment: 2,237,850

Watch and Clock Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair, clean, and adjust mechanisms of timing instruments, such as watches and clocks. Includes watchmakers, watch technicians, and mechanical timepiece repairers.

Starting Salary: $28,390

Median Salary: $58,140

Employment: 1,880

Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators

Industries: Production Occupations

Operate or control an entire process or system of machines, often through the use of control boards, to transfer or treat water or wastewater.

Starting Salary: $36,680

Median Salary: $54,890

Employment: 120,710

Water Resource Specialists

Industries: Management Occupations

Design or implement programs and strategies related to water resource issues such as supply, quality, and regulatory compliance issues.

Starting Salary: $77,520

Median Salary: $157,740

Employment: 96,520

Water/Wastewater Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design or oversee projects involving provision of potable water, disposal of wastewater and sewage, or prevention of flood-related damage. Prepare environmental documentation for water resources, regulatory program compliance, data management and analysis, and field work. Perform hydraulic modeling and pipeline design.

Starting Salary: $63,220

Median Salary: $95,890

Employment: 327,950

Web Administrators

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Manage web environment design, deployment, development and maintenance activities. Perform testing and quality assurance of web sites and web applications.

Starting Salary: $49,690

Median Salary: $104,920

Employment: 437,170

Web and Digital Interface Designers

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Design digital user interfaces or websites. Develop and test layouts, interfaces, functionality, and navigation menus to ensure compatibility and usability across browsers or devices. May use web framework applications as well as client-side code and processes. May evaluate web design following web and accessibility standards, and may analyze web use metrics and optimize websites for marketability and search engine ranking. May design and test interfaces that facilitate the human-computer interaction and maximize the usability of digital devices, websites, and software with a focus on aesthetics and design. May create graphics used in websites and manage website content and links.

Starting Salary: $48,210

Median Salary: $98,540

Employment: 111,060

Web Developers

Industries: Computer and Mathematical Occupations

Develop and implement websites, web applications, application databases, and interactive web interfaces. Evaluate code to ensure that it is properly structured, meets industry standards, and is compatible with browsers and devices. Optimize website performance, scalability, and server-side code and processes. May develop website infrastructure and integrate websites with other computer applications.

Starting Salary: $46,850

Median Salary: $84,960

Employment: 85,350

Weighers, Measurers, Checkers, and Samplers, Recordkeeping

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Weigh, measure, and check materials, supplies, and equipment for the purpose of keeping relevant records. Duties are primarily clerical by nature. Includes workers who collect and keep record of samples of products or materials.

Starting Salary: $32,440

Median Salary: $43,270

Employment: 51,250

Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers

Industries: Production Occupations

Use hand-welding, flame-cutting, hand-soldering, or brazing equipment to weld or join metal components or to fill holes, indentations, or seams of fabricated metal products.

Starting Salary: $36,830

Median Salary: $48,940

Employment: 421,730

Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend welding, soldering, or brazing machines or robots that weld, braze, solder, or heat treat metal products, components, or assemblies. Includes workers who operate laser cutters or laser-beam machines.

Starting Salary: $35,270

Median Salary: $45,350

Employment: 33,020

Wellhead Pumpers

Industries: Transportation and Material Moving Occupations

Operate power pumps and auxiliary equipment to produce flow of oil or gas from wells in oil field.

Starting Salary: $38,490

Median Salary: $71,830

Employment: 18,230

Wind Energy Development Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Lead or manage the development and evaluation of potential wind energy business opportunities, including environmental studies, permitting, and proposals. May also manage construction of projects.

Starting Salary: $67,370

Median Salary: $133,560

Employment: 589,750

Wind Energy Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems and prepare and develop site specifications.

Starting Salary: $62,130

Median Salary: $111,970

Employment: 150,990

Wind Energy Operations Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Manage wind field operations, including personnel, maintenance activities, financial activities, and planning.

Starting Salary: $67,370

Median Salary: $133,560

Employment: 589,750

Wind Turbine Service Technicians

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Inspect, diagnose, adjust, or repair wind turbines. Perform maintenance on wind turbine equipment including resolving electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic malfunctions.

Starting Salary: $47,360

Median Salary: $61,770

Employment: 9,800

Woodworkers, All Other

Industries: Production Occupations

All woodworkers not listed separately.

Starting Salary: $28,250

Median Salary: $37,760

Employment: 7,830

Woodworking Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Except Sawing

Industries: Production Occupations

Set up, operate, or tend woodworking machines, such as drill presses, lathes, shapers, routers, sanders, planers, and wood nailing machines. May operate computer numerically controlled (CNC) equipment.

Starting Salary: $29,620

Median Salary: $38,260

Employment: 61,250

Word Processors and Typists

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Use word processor, computer, or typewriter to type letters, reports, forms, or other material from rough draft, corrected copy, or voice recording. May perform other clerical duties as assigned.

Starting Salary: $33,160

Median Salary: $46,450

Employment: 37,200

Writers and Authors

Industries: Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations

Originate and prepare written material, such as scripts, stories, advertisements, and other material.

Starting Salary: $40,900

Median Salary: $73,690

Employment: 49,450

Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists

Industries: Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations

Study the origins, behavior, diseases, genetics, and life processes of animals and wildlife. May specialize in wildlife research and management. May collect and analyze biological data to determine the environmental effects of present and potential use of land and water habitats.

Starting Salary: $45,840

Median Salary: $70,600

Employment: 17,100

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