Job Market Information
This page is meant for the benefit of those that would like to gain insight into the trends that are currently affecting the economy and will continue to shape the job market for the rest of the decade. This includes the industries that will be increasingly prominent, as well as the ones diminishing in importance. Also featured are statistics on the occupations that will be growing in number and earning greater pay, and the occupations that are in decline. Each table is accompanied by a chart that provides a graphic representation of the data as well. All information is at the national level and has been extracted from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
The 10 Industries With the Largest Wage and Salary Employment Growth 2008-2018
- Management, scientific, and technical
- consulting services
- Offices of physicians
- Computer systems design and related services
- Other general merchandise stores
- Employment services
- Local Government, excluding education and
- hospitals
- Home health care services
- Services for the elderly and persons with
- Disabilities
- Nursing care facilities
- Full-service restaurants
See the Related Documents section for complete statistics.
The 10 industries with the largest wage and salary employment declines, 2008-18
- Department stores
- Semiconductors and other electronic components
- Motor vehicle parts manufacturing
- Postal service
- Printing and related support activities
- Cut and sew apparel manufacturing
- Newspaper publishers
- Support activities for mining
- Gasoline stations
- Wired telecommunications carriers
See the Related Documents section for complete statistics.
The 30 Occupations With the Largest Employment Growth
- Registered nurses
- Home health aides
- Customer service representatives
- Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food
- Personal and home care aides
- Retail salespersons
- Office clerks, general
- Accountants and auditors
- Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants
- Postsecondary teachers
- Construction laborers
- Elementary school teachers, except special education
- Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer
- Landscaping and groundskeeping workers
- Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks
- Executive secretaries and administrative assistants
- Management analysts
- Computer software engineers, Applications
- Receptionists and information clerks
- Carpenters
- Medical assistants
- First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers
- Network systems and data communications analysts
- Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses
- Security guards
- Waiters and waitresses
- Maintenance and repair workers, general
- Physicians and surgeons
- Child care workers
- Teacher assistants
See the Related Documents section for complete statistics.
The 30 Industries With the Largest Employment Declines
- Farmers and ranchers
- Sewing machine operators
- Order clerks
- Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators
- File clerks
- Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks
- Telemarketers
- First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers
- Office and administrative support workers, all other occupations
- Packers and packagers, hand
- Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers
- Machine feeders and offbearers
- Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers
- Information and record clerks, all others
- Paper goods machine setters, operators, and Tenders
- Computer operators
- Machinists
- Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand
- Miscellaneous agricultural workers
- Data entry keyers
- Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and Weighers
- Switchboard operators, including answering Service
- Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service
- Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Textile winding, twisting and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders
- Postal service clerks
- Multiple machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
- Photographic processing machine operators
See the Related Documents section for complete statistics.