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














































































































