• NEW 2008-09 Occupational Outlook Handbook
  • 2008-09 Occupational Outlook Handbook reprints (PDFs)

• NEW 2008-09 Career Guide to Industries
• Occupational Outlook Quarterly
• Occupational Projections and Training Data

Current

• 2008-09 Editions of the Occupational Outlook Handbook and the Career Guide to Industries Available on the Internet
• Employment Projections: 2006-16

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• Economic and Employment Projections
• Occupational Outlook Handbook Published

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Detailed Data for Researchers

• Labor force (Demographics)
• Aggregate Economy (Critical Variables)
• Industry Output and Employment
• Inter-industry relationships (Input-Output Matrix)
• Employment Requirements Matrix
• National Employment Matrix
• Factor Analysis
• Education and Training Data

OCCUPATIONS

• Numerical and percent change, by major occupational group [PDF] [TXT] [Zipped XLS]
• Numerical and percent change, by detailed occupation [PDF] [TXT] [Zipped XLS]
• Fastest growing occupations [PDF] [TXT] [Zipped XLS]
• Most new jobs [PDF] [TXT] [Zipped XLS]
• Occupations with the largest job decline [PDF] [TXT] [Zipped XLS]
• Industry employment by detailed occupation
• Occupation employment by detailed industry

INDUSTRIES

• Employment by major industry sector [PDF] [TXT]
• Output by major industry sector [PDF] [TXT]
• Fastest growing and declining employment by industry [PDF] [TXT]
• Industries with the largest wage and salary employment growth and declines [PDF] [TXT]
• Industries with the fastest growing and most rapidly declining output growth [PDF] [TXT]
• Largest output growth and declines by Industry[PDF] [TXT]
• Employment and output by detailed industry [PDF] [TXT]

LABOR FORCE

• Civilian labor force 16 and older by sex, age, race, and Hispanic origin [PDF] [TXT]
• Civilian noninstitutional population by sex, age, race, and Hispanic origin [PDF] [TXT]
• Civilian labor force participation rates by sex, age, race, and Hispanic origin [PDF] [TXT]
• Civilian labor force by sex, age, race, and ethnicity [PDF] [TXT]
• Civilian labor force 16 years and older, and entrants and leavers [PDF] [TXT]
• Median ages of the labor force, by sex, race, and ethnic origin [PDF] [TXT]
• Economic dependency ratio [PDF] [TXT]

AGGREGATE ECONOMY

• Major assumptions affecting aggregate projections [PDF] [TXT]
• Real gross domestic product by major demand category [PDF] [TXT]
• Nominal gross domestic product by major demand category [PDF] [TXT]
• Personal income [PDF] [TXT]
• Personal consumption expenditures [PDF] [TXT]
• Gross private domestic investment [PDF] [TXT]
• Exports and imports of goods and services [PDF] [TXT]
• Federal Government receipts and expenditures [PDF] [TXT]
• Government consumption expenditures and gross investment [PDF] [TXT]
• State and local government receipts and expenditures [PDF] [TXT]
• Labor supply and factors affecting productivity [PDF] [TXT]

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

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2006-16 projections

• James C. Franklin, “An overview of BLS projections to 2016”
• Betty W. Su, “The U.S. economy to 2016”
• Mitra Toossi, “Labor force projections to 2016: more workers in their golden years”
• Rose A. Woods and Eric B. Figueroa, “ Industry output and employment projections to 2016”
• Lynn Shniper and Arlene Dohm, “Occupational employment projections to 2016”
• Charting the projections, from the Fall 2007 Occupational Outlook Quarterly.

Projections analyses

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• Employment and Output by industry
• Labor force
• Aggregate economy
• Other articles or bulletins

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1. How often are the projections updated and where are they published?
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4. What are the occupations adding the most jobs?

Frequently Asked Questions

1. Does BLS project future labor shortages or surpluses?
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3. What are the occupations with the most job growth?
4. What are the fastest growing industries?
5. What are the industries with the most job growth?

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• Earnings data for two occupations, airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers and flight attendants, which appear in many places within the Career Guide to Industries and Occupational Outlook Handbook, are being removed from the BLS website because these data were incorrect as initially published. These data will be replaced when corrected data become available.

• SOC implementation

• NAICS implementation

Other BLS Programs

• Occupational earnings data from the household-based Current Population Survey (CPS) —Median weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers by detailed occupation and sex, annual average.
• Occupational earnings data from the establishment-based Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) Survey —Median hourly and annual earnings of wage and salary workers, by detailed occupation.
• Jobs for kids who like — BLS career information for young people.
• Standard Occupational Classification— The SOC system is used by government agencies to classify workers into occupational categories for the purpose of collecting, calculating, or disseminating data.

What BLS does not have

• Earnings and wage rate projections
• Inflation projections
• Short-term forecasts
• Lists of colleges or sources of other training, but see America's Career InfoNet
• Jobs available, but see America's Career InfoNet
• Regional, State, and area projections
• Self-assessment inventories and other career exploration tools
• Employment information by size of firm
• Projections of the number of retirees or the average age of retirement
• Projections of the number of unfilled jobs

Other Useful Links

• Career OneStop — comprehensive source of employment and career resources.
• Bureau of Economic Analysis—source of GDP and National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) information .
• State employment projections
• Occupational Information System (O*NET ^TM)
• America's Labor Market Information System (ALMIS)
• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).

Employment Projections Telephone Contacts for Data Users

• Industry Employment Projections
• Occupational Outlook