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305 careers found.

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.

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Starting Salary: $52,780

Median Salary: $81,680

Employment: 1,448,290

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.

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Starting Salary: $66,030

Median Salary: $93,600

Employment: 3,282,010

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.

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Starting Salary: $64,740

Median Salary: $108,390

Employment: 254,140

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.

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Starting Salary: $66,030

Median Salary: $93,600

Employment: 3,282,010

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.

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Starting Salary: $63,000

Median Salary: $126,960

Employment: 21,100

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.

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Starting Salary: $33,480

Median Salary: $61,460

Employment: 97,470

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.

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Starting Salary: $48,530

Median Salary: $96,310

Employment: 14,220

Allergists and Immunologists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $66,860

Median Salary: $95,080

Employment: 315,360

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.

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Starting Salary: $60,510

Median Salary: $96,690

Employment: 111,140

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.

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Starting Salary: $111,450

Median Salary: $167,740

Employment: 210,340

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.

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Starting Salary: $59,590

Median Salary: $101,480

Employment: 9,120

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.

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Starting Salary: $36,310

Median Salary: $50,620

Employment: 22,170

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.

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Starting Salary: $27,870

Median Salary: $34,850

Employment: 98,270

Automotive Body and Related Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair and refinish automotive vehicle bodies and straighten vehicle frames.

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Starting Salary: $36,390

Median Salary: $51,680

Employment: 155,220

Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $35,080

Median Salary: $47,260

Employment: 18,940

Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Diagnose, adjust, repair, or overhaul automotive vehicles.

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Starting Salary: $33,660

Median Salary: $49,670

Employment: 688,840

Barbers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $27,770

Median Salary: $38,960

Employment: 18,100

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.

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Starting Salary: $33,960

Median Salary: $46,040

Employment: 165,020

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,760

Median Salary: $47,170

Employment: 417,500

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.

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Starting Salary: $74,900

Median Salary: $121,440

Employment: 234,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $111,450

Median Salary: $167,740

Employment: 210,340

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.

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Starting Salary: $40,330

Median Salary: $71,490

Employment: 4,660

Biomass Plant Technicians

Industries: Production Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $59,930

Median Salary: $99,670

Employment: 30,720

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.

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Starting Salary: $74,900

Median Salary: $121,440

Employment: 234,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $52,650

Median Salary: $108,970

Employment: 439,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $48,390

Median Salary: $73,340

Employment: 10,170

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.

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Starting Salary: $34,600

Median Salary: $49,210

Employment: 1,455,770

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.

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Starting Salary: $47,730

Median Salary: $62,940

Employment: 40,090

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.

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Starting Salary: $68,860

Median Salary: $136,550

Employment: 630,980

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.

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Starting Salary: $41,670

Median Salary: $60,640

Employment: 287,230

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.

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Starting Salary: $27,680

Median Salary: $47,040

Employment: 387,920

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,230

Median Salary: $81,270

Employment: 1,128,200

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.

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Starting Salary: $63,650

Median Salary: $112,590

Employment: 233,440

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,460

Median Salary: $97,270

Employment: 81,780

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.

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Starting Salary: $34,700

Median Salary: $46,020

Employment: 79,540

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.

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Starting Salary: $47,090

Median Salary: $63,620

Employment: 14,200

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.

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Starting Salary: $38,680

Median Salary: $61,490

Employment: 111,150

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.

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Starting Salary: $48,840

Median Salary: $63,910

Employment: 104,450

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.

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Starting Salary: $38,760

Median Salary: $59,310

Employment: 697,740

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.

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Starting Salary: $23,070

Median Salary: $31,190

Employment: 3,148,030

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.

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Starting Salary: $73,710

Median Salary: $206,420

Employment: 211,850

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.

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Starting Salary: $73,710

Median Salary: $206,420

Employment: 211,850

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.

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Starting Salary: $22,900

Median Salary: $32,050

Employment: 520,180

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.

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Starting Salary: $43,550

Median Salary: $64,200

Employment: 62,130

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.

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Starting Salary: $65,920

Median Salary: $99,590

Employment: 355,410

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.

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Starting Salary: $47,810

Median Salary: $76,790

Employment: 305,020

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.

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Starting Salary: $50,130

Median Salary: $80,060

Employment: 84,930

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.

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Starting Salary: $63,650

Median Salary: $112,590

Employment: 233,440

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.

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Starting Salary: $51,410

Median Salary: $117,580

Employment: 17,790

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.

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Starting Salary: $66,030

Median Salary: $93,600

Employment: 3,282,010

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.

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Starting Salary: $79,830

Median Salary: $161,180

Employment: 100,870

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,180

Median Salary: $47,260

Employment: 12,170

Compliance Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $68,860

Median Salary: $136,550

Employment: 630,980

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,230

Median Salary: $78,420

Employment: 397,770

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.

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Starting Salary: $48,910

Median Salary: $96,690

Employment: 36,240

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.

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Starting Salary: $52,650

Median Salary: $108,970

Employment: 439,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,560

Median Salary: $72,120

Employment: 137,210

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.

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Starting Salary: $65,160

Median Salary: $106,980

Employment: 348,330

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,230

Median Salary: $78,420

Employment: 397,770

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.

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Starting Salary: $33,530

Median Salary: $46,740

Employment: 6,260

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,330

Median Salary: $77,070

Employment: 219,530

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.

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Starting Salary: $33,610

Median Salary: $54,810

Employment: 6,290

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.

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Starting Salary: $29,880

Median Salary: $38,340

Employment: 71,920

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.

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Starting Salary: $52,930

Median Salary: $80,970

Employment: 67,370

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.

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Starting Salary: $34,590

Median Salary: $49,130

Employment: 11,960

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.

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Starting Salary: $38,980

Median Salary: $50,480

Employment: 28,110

Critical Care Nurses

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $66,030

Median Salary: $93,600

Employment: 3,282,010

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.

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Starting Salary: $30,690

Median Salary: $42,830

Employment: 2,725,930

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,230

Median Salary: $78,420

Employment: 397,770

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.

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Starting Salary: $63,650

Median Salary: $112,590

Employment: 233,440

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.

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Starting Salary: $36,190

Median Salary: $47,300

Employment: 375,430

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.

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Starting Salary: $66,470

Median Salary: $94,260

Employment: 219,070

Derrick Operators, Oil and Gas

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $42,930

Median Salary: $62,740

Employment: 11,040

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.

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Starting Salary: $48,830

Median Salary: $73,850

Employment: 76,570

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.

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Starting Salary: $52,650

Median Salary: $108,970

Employment: 439,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $33,990

Median Salary: $54,840

Employment: 21,460

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.

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Starting Salary: $52,650

Median Salary: $108,970

Employment: 439,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $42,060

Median Salary: $48,430

Employment: 1,030

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.

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Starting Salary: $21,760

Median Salary: $37,130

Employment: 417,420

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.

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Starting Salary: $37,810

Median Salary: $58,140

Employment: 82,900

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.

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Starting Salary: $44,450

Median Salary: $59,600

Employment: 17,410

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.

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Starting Salary: $57,550

Median Salary: $119,980

Employment: 12,420

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.

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Starting Salary: $37,060

Median Salary: $56,270

Employment: 71,620

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.

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Starting Salary: $49,490

Median Salary: $82,730

Employment: 7,310

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.

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Starting Salary: $44,980

Median Salary: $71,300

Employment: 59,990

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.

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Starting Salary: $60,820

Median Salary: $100,940

Employment: 23,040

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.

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Starting Salary: $50,020

Median Salary: $92,560

Employment: 123,680

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.

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Starting Salary: $39,430

Median Salary: $62,350

Employment: 742,580

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.

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Starting Salary: $31,680

Median Salary: $47,940

Employment: 10,140

Embalmers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Prepare bodies for interment in conformity with legal requirements.

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Starting Salary: $35,160

Median Salary: $56,280

Employment: 3,420

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.

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Starting Salary: $31,410

Median Salary: $41,340

Employment: 177,980

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,560

Median Salary: $72,120

Employment: 137,210

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.

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Starting Salary: $62,840

Median Salary: $117,750

Employment: 150,750

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.

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Starting Salary: $59,790

Median Salary: $106,120

Employment: 39,910

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.

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Starting Salary: $45,320

Median Salary: $77,180

Employment: 36,700

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,230

Median Salary: $78,420

Employment: 397,770

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.

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Starting Salary: $64,950

Median Salary: $104,170

Employment: 37,950

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.

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Starting Salary: $50,130

Median Salary: $80,060

Employment: 84,930

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.

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Starting Salary: $50,130

Median Salary: $80,060

Employment: 84,930

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.

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Starting Salary: $56,950

Median Salary: $83,980

Employment: 11,460

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,230

Median Salary: $78,420

Employment: 397,770

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.

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Starting Salary: $45,160

Median Salary: $59,110

Employment: 5,680

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.

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Starting Salary: $62,550

Median Salary: $104,690

Employment: 141,090

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.

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Starting Salary: $36,780

Median Salary: $58,120

Employment: 10,260

Fence Erectors

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $35,090

Median Salary: $46,940

Employment: 22,640

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.

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Starting Salary: $29,620

Median Salary: $41,270

Employment: 78,980

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.

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Starting Salary: $53,420

Median Salary: $90,400

Employment: 62,830

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.

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Starting Salary: $86,490

Median Salary: $161,700

Employment: 818,620

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,420

Median Salary: $80,190

Employment: 127,450

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.

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Starting Salary: $62,270

Median Salary: $106,000

Employment: 56,320

First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Directly supervise and coordinate activities of construction or extraction workers.

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Starting Salary: $51,290

Median Salary: $78,690

Employment: 806,080

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.

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Starting Salary: $39,610

Median Salary: $59,330

Employment: 29,530

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.

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Starting Salary: $39,270

Median Salary: $56,170

Employment: 124,130

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.

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Starting Salary: $48,460

Median Salary: $78,300

Employment: 600,680

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.

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Starting Salary: $45,790

Median Salary: $71,190

Employment: 685,140

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,420

Median Salary: $80,190

Employment: 127,450

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.

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Starting Salary: $43,200

Median Salary: $66,490

Employment: 105,930

Fundraising Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $73,700

Median Salary: $123,480

Employment: 36,920

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.

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Starting Salary: $45,820

Median Salary: $76,830

Employment: 13,120

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.

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Starting Salary: $27,940

Median Salary: $36,990

Employment: 13,490

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.

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Starting Salary: $22,810

Median Salary: $34,810

Employment: 21,930

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.

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Starting Salary: $47,420

Median Salary: $102,950

Employment: 3,584,420

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.

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Starting Salary: $78,680

Median Salary: $98,910

Employment: 3,510

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.

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Starting Salary: $52,650

Median Salary: $108,970

Employment: 439,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $74,900

Median Salary: $121,440

Employment: 234,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,270

Median Salary: $48,640

Employment: 183,690

Glass Blowers, Molders, Benders, and Finishers

Industries: Production Occupations

Shape molten glass according to patterns.

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Starting Salary: $34,950

Median Salary: $45,690

Employment: 34,750

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.

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Starting Salary: $37,710

Median Salary: $55,440

Employment: 57,000

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,230

Median Salary: $78,420

Employment: 397,770

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.

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Starting Salary: $24,580

Median Salary: $35,250

Employment: 295,460

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.

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Starting Salary: $42,210

Median Salary: $63,000

Employment: 65,150

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.

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Starting Salary: $51,760

Median Salary: $105,620

Employment: 229,720

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,260

Median Salary: $47,450

Employment: 14,590

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.

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Starting Salary: $39,130

Median Salary: $59,810

Employment: 396,870

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.

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Starting Salary: $38,640

Median Salary: $57,440

Employment: 2,070,480

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.

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Starting Salary: $31,200

Median Salary: $39,890

Employment: 64,440

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,770

Median Salary: $48,400

Employment: 6,720

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.

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Starting Salary: $33,280

Median Salary: $49,410

Employment: 31,940

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.

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Starting Salary: $66,860

Median Salary: $95,080

Employment: 315,360

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.

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Starting Salary: $70,000

Median Salary: $101,140

Employment: 350,230

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.

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Starting Salary: $36,090

Median Salary: $49,440

Employment: 92,580

Human Resources Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $83,790

Median Salary: $140,030

Employment: 215,520

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.

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Starting Salary: $59,930

Median Salary: $99,670

Employment: 30,720

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.

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Starting Salary: $74,900

Median Salary: $121,440

Employment: 234,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $50,130

Median Salary: $80,060

Employment: 84,930

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.

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Starting Salary: $70,000

Median Salary: $101,140

Employment: 350,230

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.

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Starting Salary: $74,900

Median Salary: $121,440

Employment: 234,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $51,880

Median Salary: $109,840

Employment: 1,050

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.

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Starting Salary: $52,650

Median Salary: $108,970

Employment: 439,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $52,650

Median Salary: $108,970

Employment: 439,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $56,690

Median Salary: $76,650

Employment: 7,790

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.

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Starting Salary: $36,900

Median Salary: $48,450

Employment: 229,070

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.

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Starting Salary: $86,490

Median Salary: $161,700

Employment: 818,620

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.

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Starting Salary: $58,330

Median Salary: $126,650

Employment: 22,800

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.

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Starting Salary: $20,380

Median Salary: $44,810

Employment: 26,510

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.

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Starting Salary: $47,960

Median Salary: $62,340

Employment: 632,430

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.

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Starting Salary: $29,580

Median Salary: $44,140

Employment: 994,410

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.

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Starting Salary: $36,340

Median Salary: $60,560

Employment: 10,130

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.

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Starting Salary: $36,360

Median Salary: $48,950

Employment: 173,100

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.

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Starting Salary: $38,490

Median Salary: $74,180

Employment: 290,530

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.

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Starting Salary: $34,750

Median Salary: $50,490

Employment: 15,550

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.

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Starting Salary: $60,980

Median Salary: $77,400

Employment: 31,990

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.

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Starting Salary: $49,260

Median Salary: $80,880

Employment: 235,640

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.

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Starting Salary: $49,260

Median Salary: $80,880

Employment: 235,640

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.

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Starting Salary: $49,260

Median Salary: $80,880

Employment: 235,640

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.

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Starting Salary: $68,860

Median Salary: $136,550

Employment: 630,980

Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $22,010

Median Salary: $50,280

Employment: 3,320

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.

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Starting Salary: $59,720

Median Salary: $101,190

Employment: 893,900

Manicurists and Pedicurists

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $27,910

Median Salary: $34,660

Employment: 147,820

Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Move or install mobile homes or prefabricated buildings.

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Starting Salary: $30,280

Median Salary: $41,080

Employment: 2,610

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.

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Starting Salary: $70,000

Median Salary: $101,140

Employment: 350,230

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.

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Starting Salary: $42,070

Median Salary: $76,950

Employment: 861,140

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.

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Starting Salary: $81,900

Median Salary: $161,030

Employment: 384,980

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.

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Starting Salary: $33,280

Median Salary: $57,950

Employment: 96,040

Mechatronics Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $62,840

Median Salary: $117,750

Employment: 150,750

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.

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Starting Salary: $69,680

Median Salary: $117,960

Employment: 565,840

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,020

Median Salary: $44,200

Employment: 793,460

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,780

Median Salary: $50,250

Employment: 187,910

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,050

Median Salary: $44,640

Employment: 830,760

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.

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Starting Salary: $26,370

Median Salary: $37,550

Employment: 43,070

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.

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Starting Salary: $38,760

Median Salary: $55,770

Employment: 20,330

Meter Readers, Utilities

Industries: Office and Administrative Support Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $33,980

Median Salary: $49,180

Employment: 19,620

Microsystems Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $62,840

Median Salary: $117,750

Employment: 150,750

Midwives

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Provide prenatal care and childbirth assistance.

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Starting Salary: $37,220

Median Salary: $64,030

Employment: 36,970

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.

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Starting Salary: $62,500

Median Salary: $101,020

Employment: 6,770

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.

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Starting Salary: $45,450

Median Salary: $63,980

Employment: 180,270

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.

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Starting Salary: $38,010

Median Salary: $89,990

Employment: 5,350

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.

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Starting Salary: $34,950

Median Salary: $45,690

Employment: 34,750

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,950

Median Salary: $54,950

Employment: 24,250

Motorcycle Mechanics

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $31,770

Median Salary: $47,200

Employment: 14,010

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.

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Starting Salary: $22,900

Median Salary: $32,050

Employment: 520,180

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.

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Starting Salary: $62,840

Median Salary: $117,750

Employment: 150,750

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.

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Starting Salary: $79,830

Median Salary: $161,180

Employment: 100,870

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.

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Starting Salary: $51,410

Median Salary: $117,580

Employment: 17,790

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.

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Starting Salary: $36,980

Median Salary: $46,610

Employment: 38,030

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.

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Starting Salary: $137,230

Median Salary: $223,210

Employment: 50,350

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.

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Starting Salary: $74,670

Median Salary: $128,790

Employment: 8,280

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.

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Starting Salary: $97,960

Median Salary: $129,210

Employment: 307,390

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.

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Starting Salary: $31,390

Median Salary: $39,530

Employment: 1,388,430

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.

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Starting Salary: $47,950

Median Salary: $79,940

Employment: 74,250

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,230

Median Salary: $81,270

Employment: 1,128,200

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.

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Starting Salary: $53,910

Median Salary: $91,290

Employment: 107,760

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.

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Starting Salary: $34,210

Median Salary: $44,080

Employment: 76,520

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.

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Starting Salary: $33,600

Median Salary: $46,560

Employment: 34,240

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.

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Starting Salary: $40,130

Median Salary: $58,410

Employment: 99,530

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.

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Starting Salary: $36,670

Median Salary: $55,290

Employment: 156,950

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.

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Starting Salary: $52,650

Median Salary: $108,970

Employment: 439,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $49,990

Median Salary: $102,140

Employment: 270,480

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.

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Starting Salary: $78,840

Median Salary: $141,280

Employment: 18,970

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.

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Starting Salary: $86,930

Median Salary: $137,480

Employment: 328,870

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.

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Starting Salary: $29,360

Median Salary: $37,000

Employment: 41,100

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,100

Median Salary: $43,460

Employment: 487,920

Photonics Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $62,840

Median Salary: $117,750

Employment: 150,750

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $66,860

Median Salary: $95,080

Employment: 315,360

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.

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Starting Salary: $74,420

Median Salary: $101,020

Employment: 248,630

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.

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Starting Salary: $31,940

Median Salary: $41,600

Employment: 31,510

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.

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Starting Salary: $40,670

Median Salary: $62,970

Employment: 455,940

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.

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Starting Salary: $41,080

Median Salary: $72,270

Employment: 47,800

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.

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Starting Salary: $81,430

Median Salary: $92,730

Employment: 13,810

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.

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Starting Salary: $34,950

Median Salary: $45,690

Employment: 34,750

Power Distributors and Dispatchers

Industries: Production Occupations

Coordinate, regulate, or distribute electricity or steam.

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Starting Salary: $70,760

Median Salary: $107,240

Employment: 9,180

Power Plant Operators

Industries: Production Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $59,930

Median Salary: $99,670

Employment: 30,720

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.

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Starting Salary: $66,860

Median Salary: $95,080

Employment: 315,360

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.

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Starting Salary: $59,830

Median Salary: $100,750

Employment: 1,006,160

Psychiatrists

Industries: Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations

Diagnose, treat, and help prevent mental disorders.

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Starting Salary: $77,360

Median Salary: $141,290

Employment: 24,800

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.

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Starting Salary: $78,880

Median Salary: $138,520

Employment: 76,060

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.

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Starting Salary: $40,750

Median Salary: $69,780

Employment: 280,590

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.

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Starting Salary: $37,310

Median Salary: $60,130

Employment: 71,400

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.

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Starting Salary: $74,900

Median Salary: $121,440

Employment: 234,380

Rail Car Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $45,670

Median Salary: $65,680

Employment: 18,300

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.

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Starting Salary: $44,510

Median Salary: $58,030

Employment: 3,300

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.

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Starting Salary: $43,750

Median Salary: $65,480

Employment: 12,460

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.

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Starting Salary: $25,640

Median Salary: $35,380

Employment: 309,640

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,480

Median Salary: $50,540

Employment: 18,710

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.

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Starting Salary: $31,810

Median Salary: $48,350

Employment: 139,180

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.

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Starting Salary: $66,030

Median Salary: $93,600

Employment: 3,282,010

Regulatory Affairs Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $68,860

Median Salary: $136,550

Employment: 630,980

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,230

Median Salary: $78,420

Employment: 397,770

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.

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Starting Salary: $37,310

Median Salary: $60,130

Employment: 71,400

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.

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Starting Salary: $28,490

Median Salary: $39,180

Employment: 82,810

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.

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Starting Salary: $61,900

Median Salary: $80,450

Employment: 136,420

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.

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Starting Salary: $30,620

Median Salary: $41,600

Employment: 83,110

Robotics Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Research, design, develop, or test robotic applications.

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Starting Salary: $62,840

Median Salary: $117,750

Employment: 150,750

Rock Splitters, Quarry

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

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

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Starting Salary: $37,240

Median Salary: $47,460

Employment: 3,080

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.

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Starting Salary: $42,750

Median Salary: $65,010

Employment: 13,090

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,650

Median Salary: $47,510

Employment: 45,330

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.

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Starting Salary: $66,910

Median Salary: $138,060

Employment: 603,710

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.

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Starting Salary: $36,930

Median Salary: $66,260

Employment: 1,189,330

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.

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Starting Salary: $48,840

Median Salary: $100,070

Employment: 293,930

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.

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Starting Salary: $42,070

Median Salary: $76,950

Employment: 861,140

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.

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Starting Salary: $47,080

Median Salary: $78,140

Employment: 472,300

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.

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Starting Salary: $38,410

Median Salary: $59,300

Employment: 81,510

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.

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Starting Salary: $46,230

Median Salary: $81,270

Employment: 1,128,200

Security Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Direct an organization's security functions, including physical security and safety of employees and facilities.

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Starting Salary: $62,550

Median Salary: $104,690

Employment: 141,090

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,980

Median Salary: $51,180

Employment: 32,150

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.

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Starting Salary: $40,010

Median Salary: $57,980

Employment: 44,120

Shampooers

Industries: Personal Care and Service Occupations

Shampoo and rinse customers' hair.

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Starting Salary: $22,880

Median Salary: $31,470

Employment: 8,890

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.

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Starting Salary: $27,490

Median Salary: $36,670

Employment: 229,630

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.

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Starting Salary: $57,410

Median Salary: $83,600

Employment: 8,210

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.

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Starting Salary: $27,160

Median Salary: $41,560

Employment: 70,240

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.

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Starting Salary: $50,020

Median Salary: $78,240

Employment: 195,490

Solar Energy Installation Managers

Industries: Construction and Extraction Occupations

Direct work crews installing residential or commercial solar photovoltaic or thermal systems.

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Starting Salary: $51,290

Median Salary: $78,690

Employment: 806,080

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.

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Starting Salary: $62,840

Median Salary: $117,750

Employment: 150,750

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.

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Starting Salary: $39,070

Median Salary: $51,860

Employment: 28,280

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.

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Starting Salary: $48,840

Median Salary: $100,070

Employment: 293,930

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.

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Starting Salary: $40,670

Median Salary: $62,970

Employment: 455,940

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.

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Starting Salary: $60,480

Median Salary: $95,410

Employment: 178,790

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.

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Starting Salary: $66,860

Median Salary: $95,080

Employment: 315,360

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.

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Starting Salary: $38,050

Median Salary: $51,440

Employment: 5,900

Stone Cutters and Carvers, Manufacturing

Industries: Production Occupations

Cut or carve stone according to diagrams and patterns.

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Starting Salary: $34,950

Median Salary: $45,690

Employment: 34,750

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.

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Starting Salary: $42,000

Median Salary: $62,700

Employment: 64,720

Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters

Industries: Production Occupations

Fabricate, position, align, and fit parts of structural metal products.

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Starting Salary: $37,370

Median Salary: $49,900

Employment: 53,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $61,200

Median Salary: $102,010

Employment: 213,000

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.

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Starting Salary: $39,540

Median Salary: $60,290

Employment: 22,860

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.

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Starting Salary: $36,950

Median Salary: $63,380

Employment: 7,720

Sustainability Specialists

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Address organizational sustainability issues, such as waste stream management, green building practices, and green procurement plans.

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Starting Salary: $46,230

Median Salary: $81,270

Employment: 1,128,200

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.

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Starting Salary: $40,020

Median Salary: $59,740

Employment: 53,530

Tax Preparers

Industries: Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Prepare tax returns for individuals or small businesses.

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Starting Salary: $30,500

Median Salary: $50,560

Employment: 73,570

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.

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Starting Salary: $27,280

Median Salary: $36,220

Employment: 17,510

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.

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Starting Salary: $54,400

Median Salary: $91,670

Employment: 55,530

Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Install and repair telecommunications cable, including fiber optics.

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Starting Salary: $42,940

Median Salary: $70,500

Employment: 98,360

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.

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Starting Salary: $31,270

Median Salary: $39,340

Employment: 339,340

Tire Repairers and Changers

Industries: Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations

Repair and replace tires.

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Starting Salary: $29,880

Median Salary: $37,120

Employment: 106,620

Training and Development Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Plan, direct, or coordinate the training and development activities and staff of an organization.

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Starting Salary: $75,810

Median Salary: $127,090

Employment: 44,960

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.

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Starting Salary: $37,510

Median Salary: $65,850

Employment: 436,610

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.

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Starting Salary: $65,920

Median Salary: $99,590

Employment: 355,410

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.

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Starting Salary: $62,570

Median Salary: $100,340

Employment: 36,970

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.

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Starting Salary: $61,200

Median Salary: $102,010

Employment: 213,000

Treasurers and Controllers

Industries: Management Occupations

Direct financial activities, such as planning, procurement, and investments for all or part of an organization.

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Starting Salary: $86,490

Median Salary: $161,700

Employment: 818,620

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.

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Starting Salary: $55,590

Median Salary: $83,720

Employment: 43,040

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.

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Starting Salary: $66,860

Median Salary: $95,080

Employment: 315,360

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.

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Starting Salary: $70,000

Median Salary: $101,140

Employment: 350,230

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.

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Starting Salary: $29,160

Median Salary: $37,320

Employment: 114,190

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.

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Starting Salary: $32,120

Median Salary: $45,980

Employment: 131,320

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.

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Starting Salary: $79,830

Median Salary: $161,180

Employment: 100,870

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.

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Starting Salary: $65,920

Median Salary: $99,590

Employment: 355,410

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.

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Starting Salary: $52,650

Median Salary: $108,970

Employment: 439,380

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.

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Starting Salary: $38,130

Median Salary: $51,000

Employment: 424,040

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.

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Starting Salary: $35,780

Median Salary: $47,060

Employment: 36,290

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.

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Starting Salary: $39,110

Median Salary: $70,010

Employment: 17,350

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.

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Starting Salary: $68,860

Median Salary: $136,550

Employment: 630,980

Wind Energy Engineers

Industries: Architecture and Engineering Occupations

Design underground or overhead wind farm collector systems and prepare and develop site specifications.

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Starting Salary: $62,840

Median Salary: $117,750

Employment: 150,750

Wind Energy Operations Managers

Industries: Management Occupations

Manage wind field operations, including personnel, maintenance activities, financial activities, and planning.

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Starting Salary: $68,860

Median Salary: $136,550

Employment: 630,980

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.

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Starting Salary: $49,110

Median Salary: $62,580

Employment: 11,220

Writers and Authors

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

Originate and prepare written material, such as scripts, stories, advertisements, and other material.

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Starting Salary: $41,080

Median Salary: $72,270

Employment: 47,800

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