Occupations with the largest job decline

This file represents Table 4, Occupations with the largest job decline, 2006-16, in "Occupational employment projections to 2016," published in the November 2007 Monthly Labor Review.

Table 4. Occupations with the largest job decline, 2006-16
[Numbers in thousands]
2006 National Employment Matrix code and title Employment Change Quartile
rank by 2006
median annual
earnings (1) 		Most significant source of postsecondary education or training(2)
Title    Code    Number Numeric Percent
2006 2016

Stock clerks and order fillers

 43-5081 1,705 1,574 -131 -7.7 VL Short-term on-the-job training

Cashiers, except gaming

 41-2011 3,500 3,382 -118 -3.4 VL Short-term on-the-job training

Packers and packagers, hand

 53-7064 834 730 -104 -12.4 VL Short-term on-the-job training

File clerks

 43-4071 234 137 -97 -41.3 L Short-term on-the-job training

Farmers and ranchers

 11-9012 1,058 969 -90 -8.5 H Long-term on-the-job training

Order clerks

 43-4151 271 205 -66 -24.3 L Short-term on-the-job training

Sewing machine operators

 51-6031 233 170 -63 -27.2 VL Moderate-term on-the-job training

Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers

 51-2022 213 156 -57 -26.8 L Short-term on-the-job training

Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

 51-4031 272 231 -40 -14.9 L Moderate-term on-the-job training

Telemarketers

 41-9041 395 356 -39 -9.9 VL Short-term on-the-job training
 

Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers

 51-9061 491 457 -35 -7.0 L Moderate-term on-the-job training

First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers

 51-1011 699 665 -34 -4.8 VH Work experience in a related occupation

Computer operators

 43-9011 130 98 -32 -24.7 H Moderate-term on-the-job training

Photographic processing machine operators

 51-9132 49 25 -25 -49.8 VL Short-term on-the-job training

Driver/sales workers

 53-3031 445 421 -24 -5.3 VL Short-term on-the-job training

Machine feeders and offbearers

 53-7063 148 125 -22 -15.2 L Short-term on-the-job training

Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders

 51-9111 386 365 -21 -5.4 L Short-term on-the-job training

Word processors and typists

 43-9022 179 158 -21 -11.6 L Moderate-term on-the-job training

Paper goods machine setters, operators, and tenders

 51-9196 113 93 -21 -18.2 H Moderate-term on-the-job training

Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery, and greenhouse

 45-2092 603 583 -20 -3.4 VL Short-term on-the-job training
 

Molding, coremaking, and casting machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

 51-4072 157 137 -20 -12.8 L Moderate-term on-the-job training

Computer programmers

 15-1021 435 417 -18 -4.1 VH Bachelor's degree

Mail clerks and mail machine operators, except postal service

 43-9051 152 134 -18 -11.6 L Short-term on-the-job training

Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators

 43-5053 198 181 -17 -8.4 H Short-term on-the-job training

Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

 51-4033 101 85 -16 -15.7 L Moderate-term on-the-job training

Lathe and turning machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic

 51-4034 68 52 -16 -23.3 H Moderate-term on-the-job training

Prepress technicians and workers

 51-5022 71 56 -15 -21.1 H Postsecondary vocational award

Switchboard operators, including answering service

 43-2011 177 163 -15 -8.4 L Short-term on-the-job training

Data entry keyers

 43-9021 313 299 -15 -4.7 L Moderate-term on-the-job training

Bindery workers

 51-5011 65 51 -14 -21.8 L Short-term on-the-job training

Footnotes:
(1) The quartile rankings of Occupational Employment Statistics Survey annual wages data are presented in the following categories: VH = very high ($46,360 or more), H = high ($30,630 to $46,300), L = low ($21,260 to $30,560), and VL = very low (up to $21,220). The rankings were based on quartiles, with one-fourth of total employment defining each quartile. Wages are for wage and salary workers.

(2) An occupation is placed into 1 of 11 categories that best describes the postsecondary education or training needed by most workers to become fully qualified in that occupation. For more information about the categories, see Occupational Projections and Training Data, 2006-07 edition, Bulletin 2602 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, February 2006) and Occupational Projections and Training Data, 2008-09 edition, Bulletin 2702 (Bureau of Labor Statistics, forthcoming).

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