BTS | Table 3-20: Employment in Transportation Occupations

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Table 3-20: Employment in Transportation Occupations

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	1985	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000
Total workers, 16 years and over	107,150	118,793	117,718	118,492	120,259	123,060	124,900	126,708	129,558	131,463	133,488	135,208
Total workers in transportation occupations	3,681	4,039	4101.0	4,098	4,250	4,287	4,308	4,451	4,534	4,499	^R4,643	4,684
Transportation occupation as % of total workers, 16 years and over	3.4	3.4	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.4	3.5	3.5	3.4	3.5	3.5
Motor vehicle operators
Supervisors	51	76	80	87	84	94	87	85	95	88	86	77
Truck drivers	2,412	2,627	2,684	2,712	2,804	2,815	2,860	3,018	3,075	3,012	3,116	3,088
Drivers-sales workers	214	201	215	184	178	164	158	156	150	159	160	167
Bus drivers	394	443	469	477	506	511	526	512	472	471	490	539
Taxicab drivers and chauffeurs	180	213	197	217	230	238	211	203	248	273	271	280
Parking lot attendants	45	53	53	44	41	49	50	46	46	62	68	60
Motor transportation occupations, NEC	2	5	6	5	7	8	8	4	4	3	11	11
Total	3,298	3,618	3,704	3,726	3,850	3,879	3,900	4,024	4,090	4,069	4,202	4,222
Rail transportation
Railroad conductors and yardmasters	36	36	38	39	38	38	33	45	48	50	45	48
Locomotive operating occupations	59	46	44	44	45	47	51	49	53	41	45	63
Railroad brake, signal, and switch operators	46	28	27	20	21	19	17	15	14	7	9	11
Rail vehicle operators, NEC	7	8	6	5	4	4	3	7	6	6	7	5
Total	148	118	115	108	108	108	104	116	121	104	106	127
Water transportation
Ship captains and mates, except fishing boats	32	27	32	26	26	30	33	32	24	22	31	38
Sailors and deckhands	18	18	18	16	24	27	26	25	21	30	16	14
Marine engineers	1	2	4	5	3	6	3	8	2	3	5	2
Bridge, lock, and lighthouse tenders	8	6	7	7	8	5	4	5	5	8	5	3
Total	59	53	61	54	61	68	66	70	52	63	57	56
Air transportation
Airplane pilots and navigators	77	114	100	96	101	104	114	114	120	113	143	129
Air traffic controllers	34	36	34	23	25	24	30	32	36	26	24	23
Total	111	150	134	119	126	128	144	146	156	139	167	152
Public transportation attendants	65	100	86	91	105	104	94	95	115	124	111	127

KEY: NEC = not elsewhere classified; R = revised.

NOTES: Beginning in January 2000, data are not comparable with data for earlier years due to new composite estimation procedures and revised controls used in the household survey for population. See source for additional information.

The employment totals in tables 3-19 and 3-20 differ. Table 3-19 shows employment in transportation and related industries; Table 3-20 shows employment by transportation occupation. Some employees of transportation industries have nontransportation jobs (e.g., a bookkeeper in a trucking firm), and some people in transportation occupations do not work in the transportation industry (e.g., a truck driver for a construction firm).

SOURCES:

All data except total workers, 16 years and over:

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment and Earnings (Washington, DC: Annual January issues), table 11 of the Household Data Annual Averages Tables, Internet site http://stats.bls.gov/pdf/cpsaatab.htm as of May 31, 2000.

Ibid., Personal communications: unpublished revisions: Aug. 6, 2001.

Total workers, 16 years and over:

Ibid., Employment and Earnings (Washington, DC: January 2001), revised totals, table 1, Internet site http://stats.bls.gov/pdf/cpsaat1.pdf as of Aug. 3, 2001.