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| Compare | AI exposure | Category | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manicurists and pedicuristsSOC 39-5092 · Score reference: August 2026 | 73 out of 100Strong | $35,760 | +9.2%2025–2035 | Middle | Personal care and service | |
| Food batchmakersSOC 51-3092 · Score reference: August 2026 | 70 out of 100Strong | $42,290 | +6.5%2025–2035 | Middle | Production | |
| Chemical equipment operators and tendersSOC 51-9011 · Score reference: August 2026 | 68 out of 100Strong | $58,040 | +3.6%2025–2035 | Middle | Production | |
| Flight attendantsSOC 53-2031 · Score reference: August 2026 | 68 out of 100Strong | $63,580 | +8.8%2025–2035 | Middle | Transportation and material moving | |
| Industrial machinery mechanicsSOC 49-9041 · Score reference: August 2026 | 68 out of 100Strong | $64,520 | +17.8%2025–2035 | Lower | Installation, maintenance and repair | |
| Skincare specialistsSOC 39-5094 · Score reference: August 2026 | 68 out of 100Strong | $45,330 | +8.8%2025–2035 | Middle | Personal care and service | |
| Religious workers, all otherSOC 21-2099 · Score reference: August 2026 | 67 out of 100Strong | $45,280 | Not available | Not available | Community and social service | |
| Taxi driversSOC 53-3054 · Score reference: August 2026 | 67 out of 100Strong | $42,100 | +11.5%2025–2035 | Middle | Transportation and material moving | |
| Transportation, storage, and distribution managersSOC 11-3071 · Score reference: August 2026 | 67 out of 100Strong | $107,230 | +6.1%2025–2035 | Middle | Management | |
| Food processing workers, all otherSOC 51-3099 · Score reference: August 2026 | 66 out of 100Strong | $39,680 | Not available | Not available | Production | |
| Hearing aid specialistsSOC 29-2092 · Score reference: August 2026 | 66 out of 100Strong | $65,160 | +19.4%2025–2035 | Middle | Healthcare practitioners and technical | |
| Nurse practitionersSOC 29-1171 · Score reference: August 2026 | 66 out of 100Strong | $132,300 | +41.0%2025–2035 | Middle | Healthcare practitioners and technical | |
| Ophthalmic medical techniciansSOC 29-2057 · Score reference: August 2026 | 66 out of 100Strong | $45,570 | +21.4%2025–2035 | Middle | Healthcare practitioners and technical | |
| Substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselorsSOC 21-1018 · Score reference: August 2026 | 66 out of 100Strong | $59,350 | Not available | Not available | Community and social service | |
| Calibration technologists and techniciansSOC 17-3028 · Score reference: August 2026 | 65 out of 100Strong | $67,820 | +4.8%2025–2035 | Higher | Architecture and engineering | |
| Funeral home managersSOC 11-9171 · Score reference: August 2026 | 65 out of 100Strong | $78,790 | +4.1%2025–2035 | Middle | Management | |
| Industrial engineering technologists and techniciansSOC 17-3026 · Score reference: August 2026 | 65 out of 100Strong | $66,120 | +3.1%2025–2035 | Middle | Architecture and engineering | |
| Industrial engineersSOC 17-2112 · Score reference: August 2026 | 65 out of 100Strong | $102,440 | +12.4%2025–2035 | Higher | Architecture and engineering | |
| Industrial production managersSOC 11-3051 · Score reference: August 2026 | 65 out of 100Strong | $126,060 | +2.6%2025–2035 | Middle | Management | |
| LogisticiansSOC 13-1081 · Score reference: August 2026 | 65 out of 100Strong | $82,320 | +17.6%2025–2035 | Middle | Business and financial operations | |
| Wind turbine service techniciansSOC 49-9081 · Score reference: August 2026 | 65 out of 100Strong | $64,120 | +29.5%2025–2035 | Lower | Installation, maintenance and repair | |
| Computer numerically controlled tool programmersSOC 51-9162 · Score reference: August 2026 | 64 out of 100Strong | $68,120 | +5.9%2025–2035 | Higher | Production | |
| Directors, religious activities and educationSOC 21-2021 · Score reference: August 2026 | 64 out of 100Strong | $52,100 | +3.3%2025–2035 | Middle | Community and social service | |
| Medical and health services managersSOC 11-9111 · Score reference: August 2026 | 64 out of 100Strong | $123,860 | +24.2%2025–2035 | Middle | Management | |
| Occupational health and safety techniciansSOC 19-5012 · Score reference: August 2026 | 64 out of 100Strong | $61,560 | +19.4%2025–2035 | Middle | Life, physical and social science |
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- Adult basic education, adult secondary education, and english as a second language instructors
- Advertising and promotions managers
- Advertising sales agents
- Aerospace engineering and operations technologists and technicians
- Aerospace engineers
- Agents and business managers of artists, performers, and athletes
- Agricultural engineers
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- Agricultural technicians
- Air traffic controllers
- Aircraft cargo handling supervisors
- Aircraft mechanics and service technicians
- Aircraft service attendants
- Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers
- Airfield operations specialists
- Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers
- Ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians
- Amusement and recreation attendants
- Anesthesiologists
- Animal caretakers
- Animal control workers
- Animal scientists
- Anthropologists and archeologists
- Anthropology and archeology teachers, postsecondary
- Arbitrators, mediators, and conciliators
- Architects, except landscape and naval
- Architectural and civil drafters
- Architectural and engineering managers
- Architecture teachers, postsecondary
- Archivists
- Area, ethnic, and cultural studies teachers, postsecondary
- Art directors
- Art, drama, and music teachers, postsecondary
- Artists and related workers, all other
- Astronomers
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- Athletic trainers
- Atmospheric and space scientists
- Atmospheric, earth, marine, and space sciences teachers, postsecondary
- Audio and video technicians
- Audiologists
- Audiovisual equipment installers and repairers
- Automotive and watercraft service attendants
- Automotive body and related repairers
- Automotive glass installers and repairers
- Automotive service technicians and mechanics
- Baggage porters and bellhops
- Bailiffs
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- Bill and account collectors
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- Biochemists and biophysicists
- Bioengineers and biomedical engineers
- Biological science teachers, postsecondary
- Biological scientists, all other
- Biological technicians
- Boilermakers
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
- Brickmasons and blockmasons
- Bridge and lock tenders
- Broadcast announcers and radio disc jockeys
- Broadcast technicians
- Brokerage clerks
- Budget analysts
- Building cleaning workers, all other
- Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists
- Bus drivers, school
- Bus drivers, transit and intercity
- Business operations specialists, all other
- Business teachers, postsecondary
- Butchers and meat cutters
- Buyers and purchasing agents
- Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters
- Calibration technologists and technicians
- Camera operators, television, video, and film
- Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels
- Cardiologists
- Cardiovascular technologists and technicians
- Career/technical education teachers, middle school
- Career/technical education teachers, postsecondary
- Career/technical education teachers, secondary school
- Cargo and freight agents
- Carpenters
- Carpet installers
- Cartographers and photogrammetrists
- Cashiers
- Cement masons and concrete finishers
- Chefs and head cooks
- Chemical engineers
- Chemical equipment operators and tenders
- Chemical plant and system operators
- Chemical technicians
- Chemistry teachers, postsecondary
- Chemists
- Chief executives
- Child, family, and school social workers
- Childcare workers
- Chiropractors
- Choreographers
- Civil engineering technologists and technicians
- Civil engineers
- Claims adjusters, examiners, and investigators
- Cleaners of vehicles and equipment
- Cleaning, washing, and metal pickling equipment operators and tenders
- Clergy
- Clinical and counseling psychologists
- Clinical laboratory technologists and technicians
- Coaches and scouts
- Coating, painting, and spraying machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Coil winders, tapers, and finishers
- Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
- Commercial and industrial designers
- Commercial divers
- Commercial pilots
- Communications teachers, postsecondary
- Community and social service specialists, all other
- Community health workers
- Compensation and benefits managers
- Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists
- Compliance officers
- Computer and information research scientists
- Computer and information systems managers
- Computer hardware engineers
- Computer network architects
- Computer network support specialists
- Computer numerically controlled tool operators
- Computer numerically controlled tool programmers
- Computer occupations, all other
- Computer programmers
- Computer science teachers, postsecondary
- Computer systems analysts
- Computer user support specialists
- Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers
- Concierges
- Conservation scientists
- Construction laborers
- Construction managers
- Continuous mining machine operators
- Control and valve installers and repairers, except mechanical door
- Conveyor operators and tenders
- Cooks, all other
- Cooks, fast food
- Cooks, institution and cafeteria
- Cooks, restaurant
- Cooks, short order
- Cooling and freezing equipment operators and tenders
- Correctional officers and jailers
- Correspondence clerks
- Cost estimators
- Costume attendants
- Counselors, all other
- Counter and rental clerks
- Couriers and messengers
- Court reporters and simultaneous captioners
- Court, municipal, and license clerks
- Craft artists
- Crane and tower operators
- Credit analysts
- Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks
- Credit counselors
- Crematory operators
- Crossing guards and flaggers
- Crushing, grinding, and polishing machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Curators
- Customer service representatives
- Cutters and trimmers, hand
- Cutting and slicing machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Dancers
- Data scientists
- Database administrators
- Database architects
- Demonstrators and product promoters
- Dental assistants
- Dental hygienists
- Dental laboratory technicians
- Dentists, all other specialists
- Dentists, general
- Dermatologists
- Derrick operators, oil and gas
- Desktop publishers
- Detectives and criminal investigators
- Diagnostic medical sonographers
- Dietetic technicians
- Dietitians and nutritionists
- Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers
- Directors, religious activities and education
- Disc jockeys, except radio
- Dishwashers
- Dispatchers, except police, fire, and ambulance
- Dredge operators
- Drilling and boring machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Driver/sales workers
- Drywall and ceiling tile installers
- Earth drillers, except oil and gas
- Economics teachers, postsecondary
- Economists
- Editors
- Education administrators, all other
- Education administrators, kindergarten through secondary
- Education administrators, postsecondary
- Education and childcare administrators, preschool and daycare
- Education teachers, postsecondary
- Educational instruction and library workers, all other
- Educational, guidance, and career counselors and advisors
- Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers
- Electrical and electronics drafters
- Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment
- Electrical and electronics repairers, commercial and industrial equipment
- Electrical and electronics repairers, powerhouse, substation, and relay
- Electrical engineers
- Electrical power-line installers and repairers
- Electrical, electronic, and electromechanical assemblers, except coil winders, tapers, and finishers
- Electricians
- Electro-mechanical and mechatronics technologists and technicians
- Electronics engineers, except computer
- Elementary school teachers, except special education
- Elevator and escalator installers and repairers
- Eligibility interviewers, government programs
- Embalmers
- Emergency management directors
- Emergency medical technicians
- Emergency medicine physicians
- Engine and other machine assemblers
- Engineering teachers, postsecondary
- Engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters, all other
- Engineers, all other
- Entertainers and performers, sports and related workers, all other
- Entertainment and recreation managers, except gambling
- Entertainment attendants and related workers, all other
- Environmental engineering technologists and technicians
- Environmental engineers
- Environmental science and protection technicians, including health
- Environmental science teachers, postsecondary
- Environmental scientists and specialists, including health
- Epidemiologists
- Etchers and engravers
- Exercise physiologists
- Exercise trainers and group fitness instructors
- Extraction workers, all other
- Extruding and drawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Extruding and forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, synthetic and glass fibers
- Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Fabric and apparel patternmakers
- Facilities managers
- Family and consumer sciences teachers, postsecondary
- Family medicine physicians
- Farm and home management educators
- Farm equipment mechanics and service technicians
- Fashion designers
- Fast food and counter workers
- Fence erectors
- Fiberglass laminators and fabricators
- File clerks
- Film and video editors
- Financial and investment analysts
- Financial examiners
- Financial managers
- Financial risk specialists
- Financial specialists, all other
- Fire inspectors and investigators
- Firefighters
- First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers
- First-line supervisors of correctional officers
- First-line supervisors of entertainment and recreation workers, except gambling services
- First-line supervisors of firefighting and prevention workers
- First-line supervisors of food preparation and serving workers
- First-line supervisors of gambling services workers
- First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers
- First-line supervisors of landscaping, lawn service, and groundskeeping workers
- First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers
- First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers
- First-line supervisors of personal service workers
- First-line supervisors of police and detectives
- First-line supervisors of production and operating workers
- First-line supervisors of protective service workers, all other
- First-line supervisors of retail sales workers
- First-line supervisors of security workers
- Fish and game wardens
- Flight attendants
- Floor layers, except carpet, wood, and hard tiles
- Floor sanders and finishers
- Floral designers
- Food and tobacco roasting, baking, and drying machine operators and tenders
- Food batchmakers
- Food cooking machine operators and tenders
- Food preparation and serving related workers, all other
- Food preparation workers
- Food processing workers, all other
- Food servers, nonrestaurant
- Food service managers
- Foreign language and literature teachers, postsecondary
- Forensic science technicians
- Forest and conservation technicians
- Forest fire inspectors and prevention specialists
- Foresters
- Forestry and conservation science teachers, postsecondary
- Forging machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Foundry mold and coremakers
- Fundraisers
- Fundraising managers
- Funeral attendants
- Funeral home managers
- Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders
- Furniture finishers
- Gambling and sports book writers and runners
- Gambling cage workers
- Gambling change persons and booth cashiers
- Gambling dealers
- Gambling managers
- Gambling service workers, all other
- Gas compressor and gas pumping station operators
- Gas plant operators
- General and operations managers
- General internal medicine physicians
- Genetic counselors
- Geographers
- Geography teachers, postsecondary
- Geoscientists, except hydrologists and geographers
- Glaziers
- Graphic designers
- Grinding and polishing workers, hand
- Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists
- Hazardous materials removal workers
- Health and safety engineers, except mining safety engineers and inspectors
- Health education specialists
- Health information technologists and medical registrars
- Health specialties teachers, postsecondary
- Health technologists and technicians, all other
- Healthcare diagnosing or treating practitioners, all other
- Healthcare practitioners and technical workers, all other
- Healthcare social workers
- Healthcare support workers, all other
- Hearing aid specialists
- Heat treating equipment setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
- Heavy and tractor-trailer truck drivers
- Helpers--brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters
- Helpers--carpenters
- Helpers--electricians
- Helpers--extraction workers
- Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers
- Helpers--painters, paperhangers, plasterers, and stucco masons
- Helpers--pipelayers, plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
- Helpers--production workers
- Helpers--roofers
- Helpers, construction trades, all other
- Highway maintenance workers
- Historians
- Home appliance repairers
- Home health and personal care aides
- Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop
- Hotel, motel, and resort desk clerks
- Human resources assistants, except payroll and timekeeping
- Human resources managers
- Human resources specialists
- Hydrologic technicians
- Hydrologists
- Industrial engineering technologists and technicians
- Industrial engineers
- Industrial machinery mechanics
- Industrial production managers
- Industrial truck and tractor operators
- Information and record clerks, all other
- Information security analysts
- Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
- Installation, maintenance, and repair workers, all other
- Instructional coordinators
- Insulation workers, floor, ceiling, and wall
- Insulation workers, mechanical
- Insurance appraisers, auto damage
- Insurance claims and policy processing clerks
- Insurance sales agents
- Insurance underwriters
- Interior designers
- Interpreters and translators
- Interviewers, except eligibility and loan
- Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
- Judges, magistrate judges, and magistrates
- Judicial law clerks
- Kindergarten teachers, except special education
- Labor relations specialists
- Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
- Landscape architects
- Landscaping and groundskeeping workers
- Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Laundry and dry-cleaning workers
- Law teachers, postsecondary
- Lawyers
- Layout workers, metal and plastic
- Legal secretaries and administrative assistants
- Legal support workers, all other
- Librarians and media collections specialists
- Library assistants, clerical
- Library science teachers, postsecondary
- Library technicians
- Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
- Life, physical, and social science technicians, all other
- Lifeguards, ski patrol, and other recreational protective service workers
- Light truck drivers
- Lighting technicians
- Loading and moving machine operators, underground mining
- Loan interviewers and clerks
- Loan officers
- Locker room, coatroom, and dressing room attendants
- Locksmiths and safe repairers
- Locomotive engineers
- Lodging managers
- Log graders and scalers
- Logisticians
- Machine feeders and offbearers
- Machinists
- Magnetic resonance imaging technologists
- Maids and housekeeping cleaners
- Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service
- Maintenance and repair workers, general
- Maintenance workers, machinery
- Makeup artists, theatrical and performance
- Management analysts
- Managers, all other
- Manicurists and pedicurists
- Market research analysts and marketing specialists
- Marketing managers
- Marriage and family therapists
- Massage therapists
- Material moving workers, all other
- Materials engineers
- Mathematical science teachers, postsecondary
- Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers
- Mechanical door repairers
- Mechanical drafters
- Mechanical engineering technologists and technicians
- Mechanical engineers
- Media and communication equipment workers, all other
- Media and communication workers, all other
- Medical and health services managers
- Medical appliance technicians
- Medical assistants
- Medical dosimetrists
- Medical equipment preparers
- Medical equipment repairers
- Medical records specialists
- Medical scientists, except epidemiologists
- Medical transcriptionists
- Meeting, convention, and event planners
- Mental health and substance abuse social workers
- Merchandise displayers and window trimmers
- Metal workers and plastic workers, all other
- Metal-refining furnace operators and tenders
- Meter readers, utilities
- Microbiologists
- Middle school teachers, except special and career/technical education
- Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Millwrights
- Mining and geological engineers, including mining safety engineers
- Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators
- Miscellaneous construction and related workers
- Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Mobile heavy equipment mechanics, except engines
- Model makers, metal and plastic
- Model makers, wood
- Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic
- Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Morticians, undertakers, and funeral arrangers
- Motion picture projectionists
- Motor vehicle operators, all other
- Motorboat mechanics and service technicians
- Motorcycle mechanics
- Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Museum technicians and conservators
- Music directors and composers
- Musical instrument repairers and tuners
- Musicians and singers
- Natural sciences managers
- Network and computer systems administrators
- Neurologists
- New accounts clerks
- News analysts, reporters, and journalists
- Nuclear engineers
- Nuclear medicine technologists
- Nuclear power reactor operators
- Nuclear technicians
- Nurse anesthetists
- Nurse midwives
- Nurse practitioners
- Nursing assistants
- Nursing instructors and teachers, postsecondary
- Obstetricians and gynecologists
- Occupational health and safety specialists
- Occupational health and safety technicians
- Occupational therapists
- Occupational therapy aides
- Occupational therapy assistants
- Office and administrative support workers, all other
- Office clerks, general
- Office machine operators, except computer
- Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators
- Operations research analysts
- Ophthalmic laboratory technicians
- Ophthalmic medical technicians
- Ophthalmologists, except pediatric
- Opticians, dispensing
- Optometrists
- Oral and maxillofacial surgeons
- Order clerks
- Orderlies
- Orthodontists
- Orthopedic surgeons, except pediatric
- Orthotists and prosthetists
- Outdoor power equipment and other small engine mechanics
- Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders
- Packers and packagers, hand
- Painters, construction and maintenance
- Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Paperhangers
- Paralegals and legal assistants
- Paramedics
- Parking attendants
- Parking enforcement workers
- Parts salespersons
- Passenger attendants
- Patternmakers, metal and plastic
- Patternmakers, wood
- Paving, surfacing, and tamping equipment operators
- Payroll and timekeeping clerks
- Pediatricians, general
- Personal care and service workers, all other
- Personal financial advisors
- Personal service managers, all other
- Pest control workers
- Pesticide handlers, sprayers, and applicators, vegetation
- Petroleum engineers
- Petroleum pump system operators, refinery operators, and gaugers
- Pharmacists
- Pharmacy aides
- Pharmacy technicians
- Philosophy and religion teachers, postsecondary
- Phlebotomists
- Photographers
- Photographic process workers and processing machine operators
- Physical scientists, all other
- Physical therapist aides
- Physical therapist assistants
- Physical therapists
- Physician assistants
- Physicians, all other
- Physicists
- Physics teachers, postsecondary
- Pile driver operators
- Pipelayers
- Plant and system operators, all other
- Plating machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
- Podiatrists
- Police and sheriff's patrol officers
- Political science teachers, postsecondary
- Political scientists
- Postsecondary teachers, all other
- Pourers and casters, metal
- Power distributors and dispatchers
- Power plant operators
- Precision instrument and equipment repairers, all other
- Prepress technicians and workers
- Preschool teachers, except special education
- Pressers, textile, garment, and related materials
- Print binding and finishing workers
- Printing press operators
- Private detectives and investigators
- Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists
- Procurement clerks
- Producers and directors
- Production workers, all other
- Project management specialists
- Property appraisers and assessors
- Property, real estate, and community association managers
- Protective service workers, all other
- Psychiatric aides
- Psychiatric technicians
- Psychiatrists
- Psychologists, all other
- Psychology teachers, postsecondary
- Public relations managers
- Public relations specialists
- Public safety telecommunicators
- Pump operators, except wellhead pumpers
- Purchasing managers
- Radiation therapists
- Radiologic technologists and technicians
- Radiologists
- Rail car repairers
- Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
- Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators and locomotive firers
- Railroad conductors and yardmasters
- Real estate brokers
- Real estate sales agents
- Receptionists and information clerks
- Recreation and fitness studies teachers, postsecondary
- Recreation workers
- Recreational therapists
- Recreational vehicle service technicians
- Refractory materials repairers, except brickmasons
- Refuse and recyclable material collectors
- Registered nurses
- Rehabilitation counselors
- Reinforcing iron and rebar workers
- Religious workers, all other
- Reservation and transportation ticket agents and travel clerks
- Residential advisors
- Respiratory therapists
- Retail salespersons
- Riggers
- Rock splitters, quarry
- Rolling machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Roof bolters, mining
- Roofers
- Rotary drill operators, oil and gas
- Roustabouts, oil and gas
- Sailors and marine oilers
- Sales and related workers, all other
- Sales engineers
- Sales managers
- Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel
- Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products
- Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products
- Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood
- School bus monitors
- School psychologists
- Secondary school teachers, except special and career/technical education
- Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive
- Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents
- Security and fire alarm systems installers
- Security guards
- Self-enrichment teachers
- Semiconductor processing technicians
- Separating, filtering, clarifying, precipitating, and still machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners
- Service unit operators, oil and gas
- Sewers, hand
- Sewing machine operators
- Shampooers
- Sheet metal workers
- Ship engineers
- Shipping, receiving, and inventory clerks
- Shoe and leather workers and repairers
- Shoe machine operators and tenders
- Shuttle drivers and chauffeurs
- Signal and track switch repairers
- Skincare specialists
- Slaughterers and meat packers
- Social and community service managers
- Social and human service assistants
- Social sciences teachers, postsecondary, all other
- Social scientists and related workers, all other
- Social work teachers, postsecondary
- Social workers, all other
- Sociologists
- Sociology teachers, postsecondary
- Software developers
- Software quality assurance analysts and testers
- Soil and plant scientists
- Solar photovoltaic installers
- Special education teachers, all other
- Special education teachers, kindergarten and elementary school
- Special education teachers, middle school
- Special education teachers, preschool
- Special education teachers, secondary school
- Special effects artists and animators
- Speech-language pathologists
- Stationary engineers and boiler operators
- Statistical assistants
- Statisticians
- Stockers and order fillers
- Stonemasons
- Structural iron and steel workers
- Structural metal fabricators and fitters
- Substance abuse, behavioral disorder, and mental health counselors
- Substitute teachers, short-term
- Subway and streetcar operators
- Surgeons, all other
- Surgical assistants
- Surgical technologists
- Survey researchers
- Surveying and mapping technicians
- Surveyors
- Switchboard operators, including answering service
- Tailors, dressmakers, and custom sewers
- Tank car, truck, and ship loaders
- Tapers
- Tax examiners and collectors, and revenue agents
- Tax preparers
- Taxi drivers
- Teaching assistants, except postsecondary
- Teaching assistants, postsecondary
- Technical writers
- Telecommunications equipment installers and repairers, except line installers
- Telecommunications line installers and repairers
- Telemarketers
- Tellers
- Terrazzo workers and finishers
- Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders
- Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Textile, apparel, and furnishings workers, all other
- Therapists, all other
- Tile and stone setters
- Tire builders
- Tire repairers and changers
- Title examiners, abstractors, and searchers
- Tool and die makers
- Tool grinders, filers, and sharpeners
- Tour and travel guides
- Traffic technicians
- Training and development managers
- Training and development specialists
- Transit and railroad police
- Transportation inspectors
- Transportation security screeners
- Transportation, storage, and distribution managers
- Travel agents
- Tree trimmers and pruners
- Tutors
- Umpires, referees, and other sports officials
- Underground mining machine operators, all other
- Upholsterers
- Urban and regional planners
- Ushers, lobby attendants, and ticket takers
- Veterinarians
- Veterinary assistants and laboratory animal caretakers
- Veterinary technologists and technicians
- Waiters and waitresses
- Watch and clock repairers
- Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators
- Web and digital interface designers
- Web developers
- Weighers, measurers, checkers, and samplers, recordkeeping
- Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers
- Welding, soldering, and brazing machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Wellhead pumpers
- Wind turbine service technicians
- Woodworkers, all other
- Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing
- Word processors and typists
- Writers and authors
- Zoologists and wildlife biologists
Your job market can look different by state.
Open an occupation report to explore available state pay and industry context.
How the Job Market Health Score works
Job Market Health Score
One national signal for each occupation.
The 0–100 score describes national hiring-market health for an occupation. It is not a state score and not a rating of job quality or desirability. Wages are shown separately and do not feed the score.
How the score works- Current Demand
- 50%
- Occupation Fundamentals
- 30%
- Long-Term Outlook
- 20%
Sources & how to read these results
Scores and health bands come from the published national occupation catalog. Each result shows its own score reference month. Catalog saved Oct 30, 2026. Read the scoring methodology. National median annual wage: national median annual wage, published by BLS OEWS, OEWS May 2025 (reference May 1, 2025). Snapshot taken Sep 19, 2026 for 750 of 754 occupations. Missing wages are not estimated; scores are national, not state-level.