Occupational Data

Most Requested Tables

2002-2012 Occupational Employment Projections

• Fastest growing
• Most new jobs
• Numerical and percent change, by major occupational group
• Numerical and percent change, by detailed occupation
• Numerical and percent change, detailed occupation by industry
• Numerical and percent change, detailed industry by occupation

Most Recent Analysis

Occupational Projections and Training Data, 2004-05 Edition

Daniel Hecker, "Occupational employment projections to 2012,"Monthly Labor Review, February 2004.
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Download the formal tables from this article.

• Table 1. Employment by major occupational group, 2002 and projected 2012   [PDF]   [TXT]
• Table 2. Employment by occupation, 2002 and projected 2012   [PDF]   [TXT]
• Table 3. Fastest growing occupations, 2002-2012   [PDF]   [TXT]
• Table 4. Occupations with the largest job growth, 2002-2012   [PDF]   [TXT]
• Table 5. Occupations with the largest job decline, 2002-2012   [PDF]   [TXT]

Other Articles on Occupations

• Employment projections
• Projections evaluations

Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT)

The Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) is prepared by the U.S. Employment Service, Employment and Training Administration (ETA), U.S. Department of Labor. The latest version of the DOT is the Revised Fourth Edition (1991). It is available from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office.

The Occupational Information Network (O*NET), which defines and describes occupations, is an electronic successor to the DOT. The current O*NET database of occupational information is based largely on data supplied by occupational analysts using sources such as the DOT. During the next phase of development, the O*NET project will revise the existing database with new data collected directly from individual workers. For more information, go to http://www.doleta.gov/programs/onet.

Earnings

• Occupational earnings data from the household-based Current Population Survey (CPS)
• Occupational earnings data from the establishment-based Occupational Employment Statistics Survey (OES)
  • National
  • State
  • Metropolitan Area
• Earnings quartile rankings of occupations by employment size and education or training

Employment, Training, and Earnings Data

Compare occupations by any of:

• 2002 employment size,
• projected 2002-2012 percent or numerical change in employment,
• projected 2002-2012 job openings due to growth and net or total replacement needs,
• usual education and training requirements,
• educational attainment distribution,
• opportunities for self-employment and part-time work, and
• unemployment rate.

Projections Methods

For a brief description, see BLS Handbook of Methods, Chapter 13. Employment Projections, Bulletin 2490, April 1997.

National Industry-Occupation Employment Matrix, 2002-2012

Visit our matrix web site to search by occupation to see the industries that had the largest numbers of workers in the occupation in 2002 or in which employment for that occupation is projected to increase the fastest or increase the most over the 2002-2012 period; or to search by industry to see which occupations in that industry had the most workers in 2002 and which will have the fastest growth or largest numerical increase over the 2002-2012 period.

State Occupational Employment Projections

Occupational employment projections are available for most States.

Special purpose files

(NOTE: These are large, complex data files for researchers and data developers who wish to conduct their own analyses or program the data for other purposes. These files reside at our ftp site.)

A description and links to the data files is available at special purpose files.

Last Modified Date: July 22, 2004

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