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Most Requested Tables

1998-2008 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

Douglas Braddock, "Occupational employment projections,"Monthly Labor Review, November 1999, pp. 51-77.
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Download text versions of formal tables from this article.

Table 1. Employment by major occupational group, 1988, 1998, and projected 2008
Table 2. Employment by occupation, 1998 and projected 2008
Table 3. Fastest growing occupations, 1998-2008
Table 4. Occupations with the largest job growth, 1998-2008
Table 5. Occupations with the largest job decline, 1998-2008
Table 6. Employment and total job openings, 1998-2008, and 1997 median weekly earnings, by education and training category

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 for $50 from the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402. Phone (202) 512-1800. Specify GPO Stock No. 029-013-00094-2 when ordering.
The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) is being developed by ETA as the new, automated replacement for the DOT. When it is completed, it will provide a comprehensive database that identifies and describes important information about occupations, worker skills, and training requirements. For more information, contact this program via e-mail at O*NET@doleta.gov.

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
Earnings quartile rankings of occupations by employment size and education or training

Employment, Training, and Earnings Data

Compare occupations by any of:

1998 employment size,
projected 1998-2008 percent or numerical change in employment,
projected 1998-2008 job openings due to growth and net or total replacement needs,
usual education and training requirements,
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, 1998-2008

Visit our matrix web site to search by occupation to see the industries that had the largest numbers of workers in the occupation in 1998 or in which employment for that occupation is projected to increase the fastest or increase the most over the 1998-2008 period; or to search by industry to see which occupations in that industry had the most workers in 1998 and which will have the fastest growth or largest numerical increase over the 1998-2008 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.