February 2004 Monthly Labor Review Table 5

Occupations with the largest job decline, 2002-2012

This file represents Table 5, Occupations with the largest job decline, 2002-2012, in "Occupational employment projections to 2012," published in the February 2004 Monthly Labor Review.

Table 5. Occupations with the largest job decline, 2002-12
[Numbers in thousands of jobs]
2000 Standard Occupation Classification code and title	Employment		Change		Quartile rank by 2002 median annual earnings ⁽¹⁾	Most significant source of postsecondary education or training ⁽²⁾
2000 Standard Occupation Classification code and title	2002	2012	Number	Percent	Quartile rank by 2002 median annual earnings ⁽¹⁾
11-9012 Farmers and ranchers	1,158	920	-238	-21	3	Long-term on-the-job training
51-6031 Sewing machine operators	315	216	-99	-31	4	Moderate-term on-the-job training
43-9022 Word processors and typists	241	148	-93	-39	3	Moderate-term on-the-job training
43-5081 Stock clerks and order fillers	1,628	1,560	-68	-4	4	Short-term on-the-job training
43-6014 Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive	1,975	1,918	-57	-3	3	Moderate-term on-the-job training
51-2022 Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers	281	230	-51	-18	3	Short-term on-the-job training
43-9011 Computer operators	182	151	-30	-17	2	Moderate-term on-the-job training
43-2021 Telephone operators	50	22	-28	-56	2	Short-term on-the-job training
43-5053 Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators	253	226	-26	-10	2	Short-term on-the-job training
43-4131 Loan interviewers and clerks	170	146	-24	-14	2	Short-term on-the-job training

43-9021 Data entry keyers	392	371	-21	-5	3	Moderate-term on-the-job training
41-9041 Telemarketers	428	406	-21	-5	4	Short-term on-the-job training
51-6063 Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders	53	33	-20	-39	3	Long-term on-the-job training
51-6064 Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders	66	46	-20	-30	3	Moderate-term on-the-job training
51-2092 Team assemblers	1,174	1,155	-19	-2	3	Moderate-term on-the-job training
43-4151 Order clerks	330	311	-19	-6	3	Short-term on-the-job training
41-9091 Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers	155	137	-18	-12	3	Short-term on-the-job training
41-3041 Travel agents	118	102	-16	-14	3	Postsecondary vocational award
43-4011 Brokerage clerks	78	67	-11	-15	2	Moderate-term on-the-job training
43-4061 Eligibility interviewers, government programs	94	83	-11	-12	2	Moderate-term on-the-job training

51-5022 Prepress technicians and workers	91	81	-10	-11	2	Long-term on-the-job training
45-3011 Fishers and related fishing workers	36	27	-10	-27	3	Moderate-term on-the-job training
51-6051 Sewers, hand	36	29	-8	-21	4	Short-term on-the-job training
51-6062 Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders	34	26	-8	-23	3	Moderate-term on-the-job training
51-6061 Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders	27	19	-8	-29	3	Moderate-term on-the-job training
27-3010 Announcers	76	68	-8	-10	3	Long-term on-the-job training
43-5041 Meter readers, utilities	54	46	-8	-14	2	Short-term on-the-job training
51-8091 Chemical plant and system operators	58	51	-7	-12	1	Long-term on-the-job training
51-9023 Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders	106	99	-7	-7	2	Moderate-term on-the-job training
43-4041 Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks	80	74	-5	-7	3	Short-term on-the-job training

Footnotes: (1) The quartile rankings of Occupational Employment Statistics annual earnings data are presented in the following categories: 1=very high ($41,820 and over), 2=high ($27,500 to $41,780),3=low ($19,710 to $27,380), and 4=very low(up to $19,600). The rankings were based on quartiles using one-fourth of total employment to define each quartile. Earnings are for wage and salary workers. (2) An occupation is placed into one of 11 categories that best describes the education or training needed by most workers to become fully qualified.
NOTE: For more information about the categories, see Chapter II, "Selected Occupational Data, 2000 and Projected 2010" in Occupational Projections and Training Data, Bulletin 2542 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2002), pp. 18-19, or in Bulletin 2572, the forthcoming 2004-05 edition of this publication.

Last Modified Date: February 11, 2004

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