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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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