|
(The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Archived articles from The Editor's Desk—
Occupations
- Who has retirement benefits in private industry in 2012? (09/21/2012)
- Employer costs for employee compensation $28.80 in June 2012 (09/19/2012)
- Occupations with the highest job gains and losses (07/30/2012)
- Green technologies and practices, August 2011 (07/03/2012)
- Education and occupations of the foreign born in 2011 (06/06/2012)
- Education and training across occupation groups (05/15/2012)
- Employed Asians by occupation, 2008–2010 (05/10/2012)
- Women as a percent of total employed in selected occupations, 2011 (05/01/2012)
- Median weekly earnings by race, ethnicity, and occupation, first quarter 2012 (04/19/2012)
- Employer-provided life insurance benefits, 2011 (04/06/2012)
- Occupational Employment and Wages — May 2011 (03/29/2012)
- Workplace safety for security guards (03/09/2012)
- Employer-provided health care benefits (02/29/2012)
- Employment projections by occupational group, 2010–2020 (02/28/2012)
- Top searches on BLS website in 2011 (01/18/2012)
- Homicides in retail trade, 2003–2008 (01/04/2012)
- Recycling occupations (12/30/2011)
- Fatal occupational injuries in retail trade, 2003–2008 (12/13/2011)
- Construction employment and wages, May 2010 (12/12/2011)
- Asians in the U.S. labor force, 2008–2010 (12/06/2011)
- Average wage for the highest paying occupational group nearly five times that of the lowest paying group (11/30/2011)
- Workers in abolished occupations (11/03/2011)
- Helping those in need: Human service workers (10/20/2011)
- Occupations in electric vehicle manufacturing (10/13/2011)
- Earnings and employment by occupation, race, ethnicity, and sex, 2010 (09/14/2011)
- Retirement and savings benefit costs for employers in private industry, June 2011 (09/13/2011)
- Careers in sales (08/16/2011)
- Careers in green construction (08/03/2011)
- 12-month private industry compensation costs, June 2011 (08/02/2011)
- Number and incidence rates of nonfatal occupational injuries and illnesses by occupation, 2009 (07/13/2011)
- Extended mass layoffs and occupational employment, 1999-2008 (07/07/2011)
- Careers in solar power (06/29/2011)
- Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) occupations, May 2009 (06/15/2011)
- Occupational employment by ownership, May 2010 (06/13/2011)
- Employed foreign-born and native-born persons by occupation, 2010 (06/01/2011)
- Annual wages of largest occupations, May 2010 (05/23/2011)
- Retail salespersons: occupation with highest employment in 2010 (05/20/2011)
- 12-month private industry compensation costs, March 2010–March 2011 (05/03/2011)
- Three occupations in management, scientific, and technical consulting services (05/02/2011)
- Workplace injuries involving the eyes, 2008 (03/02/2011)
- It pays to be the boss—supervisory wages in 2009 (02/02/2011)
- Top searches on the BLS website (01/21/2011)
- Careers in wind energy (12/22/2010)
- Insurance benefits costs for employers in private industry, September 2010 (12/13/2010)
- Fatal occupational injuries at road construction sites, 1995–2007 (12/08/2010)
- Occupations with high geographic concentration, 2009 (11/03/2010)
- 12-month private industry compensation costs increase 2.0 percent (11/01/2010)
- Average hourly earnings for major occupational groups, July 2009 (10/06/2010)
- Costs of retirement and savings benefits for employers in private industry, June 2010 (09/16/2010)
- Largest occupations in private and government sectors, May 2009 (08/03/2010)
- Supplemental pay in the healthcare industry, 2007–10 (07/29/2010)
- Museum occupations: skills on exhibit (06/16/2010)
- Occupational employment in May 2009 (06/15/2010)
- Health insurance benefit costs in private industry, March 2010 (06/14/2010)
- Highest and lowest mean hourly wages in May 2009 (05/20/2010)
- Employment and wages in the 10 largest occupations, May 2009 (05/18/2010)
- Occupations with increasing employment, 2008–2018 (05/06/2010)
- Hourly earnings of healthcare practitioner and technical occupations, by work level, 2008 (05/03/2010)
- Metropolitan geography of tax preparers employment and earnings (04/15/2010)
- Paid leave benefit costs in private industry, March 2009 (03/16/2010)
- Earnings of healthcare workers in hospitals, 2008 (03/15/2010)
- Median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, by major occupational group and sex, 2009 (01/27/2010)
- Take-up rates for medical care plans among State and local government and private industry workers, March 2009 (01/08/2010)
- Employment change by major occupational group, 2008-18 (12/24/2009)
- Employment and wages in large occupations, May 2008 (12/16/2009)
- Wages for sales and related workers down substantially in first three quarters of 2009 (11/30/2009)
- Declines in occupational illnesses and injuries in 2008 (11/03/2009)
- Stand-alone dental and vision plans: employee access and participation by establishment size (11/02/2009)
- Careers in auto racing (09/15/2009)
- Wages and benefits by occupational group, June 2009 (09/11/2009)
- Women and men in management, professional, and related occupations, 2008 (08/07/2009)
- Access to medical care benefits: private industry vs. State and local government (07/29/2009)
- Comparisons of full- and part-time hourly earnings, 2007 (07/28/2009)
- Putting numbers to work for 125 years (06/26/2009)
- Working at home, 2003-2007 (06/23/2009)
- Employment and wages of environmental engineers (06/12/2009)
- Health benefit costs in private industry, March 2009 (06/11/2009)
- Employment concentration: welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers (05/05/2009)
- Wages of workers in largest occupations, May 2008 (05/04/2009)
- Which workers spend the most time working at home? (04/28/2009)
- Wellness programs (04/23/2009)
- Forensic science technicians (04/22/2009)
- A career as an executive chef (04/21/2009)
- Bonuses as percentage of cash compensation (04/02/2009)
- Employer costs and paid leave, December 2008 (03/13/2009)
- Wages in architecture and engineering occupations by sector (12/05/2008)
- Working in the electric power industry (12/03/2008)
- Musculoskeletal disorders and days away from work in 2007 (12/02/2008)
- Jobs with most injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work (12/01/2008)
- Mixed-education occupations, 2006-16 (10/22/2008)
- Variation in medical care benefits by occupation, 2008 (09/25/2008)
- Healthcare occupations and workdays (09/19/2008)
- Variation in worker earnings by occupation, July 2007 (09/16/2008)
- Employer costs for retirement and savings plans, June 2008 (09/11/2008)
- Surgical technologists (07/23/2008)
- Earnings of bachelor’s degree recipients 10 years after graduation (07/22/2008)
- Earnings in nine largest occupations, May 2006 (06/25/2008)
- Occupations with different wage variations (06/20/2008)
- Employment of fast food cooks by metropolitan area, May 2006 (06/19/2008)
- Health benefit costs in private industry, March 2008 (06/12/2008)
- Highest and lowest paying occupational groups, 2007 (05/13/2008)
- Office and administrative occupations in 2007 (05/12/2008)
- Older teachers work more hours than younger teachers (04/25/2008)
- Occupations and foreign-born workers in 2007 (04/02/2008)
- Commercial divers (03/25/2008)
- Employer costs for paid leave in private industry, December 2007 (03/20/2008)
- Projected growth in professional occupations, 2006-16 (01/04/2008)
- Self-employment in 2016 (12/31/2007)
- Occupations losing the most jobs, 2006-16 (12/28/2007)
- Occupations with the largest projected job growth, 2006-16 (12/07/2007)
- Employment and wages by occupation for nonmetropolitan areas (10/25/2007)
- Earnings in air travel jobs (10/05/2007)
- Employment in air travel jobs (10/04/2007)
- Health educators (10/01/2007)
- Working as a cobbler (09/26/2007)
- “STEM” occupations and job growth (06/28/2007)
- Variation in worker earnings by occupation, June 2006 (06/27/2007)
- Change in employment by major occupation and sex, 2005-06 (06/12/2007)
- Employment in office and administrative support occupations, 2006 (05/29/2007)
- Highest and lowest paying occupational groups, 2006 (05/22/2007)
- Highest paid registered nurses are in California (05/18/2007)
- Foreign-born workers by occupation, 2006 (05/01/2007)
- Employer costs for paid leave in private industry, December 2006 (04/02/2007)
- Working as a floral designer (03/02/2007)
- Training animals for a living (02/21/2007)
- Sprains and strains again most common workplace injury (11/20/2006)
- Occupations with the most job openings for college graduates, 2004-14 (09/28/2006)
- Healthcare employment for workers without a bachelor’s degree (09/26/2006)
- Employee tenure by occupation, 2006 (09/12/2006)
- Emergency management specialists (06/30/2006)
- Captioning and court reporting in the 21st century (06/26/2006)
- Health benefit costs in private industry, March 2006 (06/22/2006)
- Earnings of retail salespersons highest in metro areas in West (06/08/2006)
- Occupational changes: then and now (04/06/2006)
- Absence rates and occupation, 2005 (01/31/2006)
- Unionization rates by occupation in 2005 (01/25/2006)
- Occupational mobility and age (01/04/2006)
- Mass layoffs in November (12/23/2005)
- Occupations with the largest job growth, 2004–14 (12/22/2005)
- Occupational groups and projections, 2004-14 (12/13/2005)
- Meeting and convention planners (12/02/2005)
- Food preparation and serving occupations, November 2004 (11/29/2005)
- Highest paid occupations, November 2004 (11/10/2005)
- Alternative routes to agricultural work (07/25/2005)
- Earnings in geography jobs (07/22/2005)
- Lowest paying occupations in May 2004 (06/01/2005)
- Highly paid healthcare occupations (05/27/2005)
- Foreign-born workers and occupations, 2004 (05/13/2005)
- Jobs that have become less male-dominated (04/08/2005)
- Sprains and strains most common workplace injury (04/01/2005)
- Injuries and illnesses resulting in days away from work, 2003 (03/31/2005)
- Absence rates and occupation, 2004 (02/14/2005)
- Unionization rates by occupation, 2004 (02/09/2005)
- Earnings of advertising sales agents (01/07/2005)
- New and emerging occupations at the start of the 21st century (01/05/2005)
- Employer costs for paid leave (12/16/2004)
- Lost-worktime injuries and illnesses by day of week, 2002 (12/03/2004)
- Highest-paying jobs in November 2003 (11/15/2004)
- Fatal work injuries from accidental gunshot wounds (10/28/2004)
- Occupation and earnings: third quarter of 2004 (10/21/2004)
- Fatal work injuries by occupation, 2003 (10/08/2004)
- Occupational employment of veterans (07/28/2004)
- Compensation by occupational group in March 2004 (07/02/2004)
- 9/11 and the New York City economy (07/01/2004)
- Lowest paying occupations in May 2003 (05/06/2004)
- Highest paying occupations in May 2003 (05/05/2004)
- Occupational fatalities: self-employed workers and wage and salary workers (04/12/2004)
- Occupations with most lost-time injuries and illnesses (03/31/2004)
- Projected employment in high-paying occupations requiring a bachelor’s or graduate degree (03/17/2004)
- Projected employment in high-paying occupations requiring less than a bachelor’s degree (03/15/2004)
- Fastest growing occupations through 2012 (02/12/2004)
- Evaluating 1988–2000 employment projections (01/07/2004)
- Nursing animals to health (12/16/2003)
- Lowest paying occupations in 2002 (12/02/2003)
- Highest paying occupations in 2002 (11/24/2003)
- Earnings and union status (10/30/2003)
- Women’s earnings in professional specialty occupations (10/29/2003)
- Earnings and occupation: third quarter of 2003 (10/21/2003)
- New and emerging occupations by industry, 2000 (09/02/2003)
- Employee benefits in June 2003 (08/27/2003)
- Metro areas with highest percentages of high-tech workers (08/22/2003)
- Employment and wages in elementary and secondary schools (08/20/2003)
- Occupational earnings in July 2002 (07/23/2003)
- Farm and service workers have highest poverty rates (07/03/2003)
- When relative wages depend on where you are (06/06/2003)
- Occupational variation in computer use (06/04/2003)
- Do occupational wages vary much by location? (06/03/2003)
- Assessing the 1988-2000 employment growth projections (05/29/2003)
- Accuracy of growth projections for health care occupations (05/28/2003)
- When the future becomes the past: 1988-2000 projections for large occupations (05/23/2003)
- Jobs with the most lost-time injuries (03/28/2003)
- Farm jobs and managerial positions have lowest absence rate (01/28/2003)
- Lowest paying occupations in 2001 (12/03/2002)
- Highest paying occupations in 2001 (11/07/2002)
- Most IT workers have college degrees (10/23/2002)
- Managers, professionals have highest tenure (09/24/2002)
- Occupations of foreign-born workers (08/02/2002)
- Earnings of interpreters and translators (07/19/2002)
- Employment costs by occupation in March (07/10/2002)
- Wages in legal occupations in 2000 (06/07/2002)
- Earnings spread widest within and between professional, service groups (05/22/2002)
- Nearly half of executives have flexible work hours (04/25/2002)
- Truck drivers again have the most lost-time injuries (04/24/2002)
- For aircraft mechanics, certification pays (04/03/2002)
- Steepest job losses in manufacturing-related fields in 2001 (03/27/2002)
- Most home workers are managers and professionals (03/05/2002)
- Self-employed in 2000 (01/28/2002)
- Occupations losing the most jobs, 2000-10 (01/04/2002)
- Fastest growing jobs, 2000-2010 (12/04/2001)
- Office, administrative support largest occupation (11/26/2001)
- Lowest paid jobs in 2000 (11/23/2001)
- Highest paying occupations in 2000 (11/21/2001)
- Probation officers and correctional treatment specialists—working to rehabilitate offenders (09/28/2001)
- Medical transcriptionists: making medical histories (09/25/2001)
- Sales engineers: technical expertise plus people skills (09/18/2001)
- Keeping the environment clean (09/07/2001)
- Employment cost increase by occupation (08/03/2001)
- Displacement rates among blue-collar and white-collar workers (08/02/2001)
- Health benefits 5.6 percent of total compensation (07/06/2001)
- Five million new jobs in just ten occupations (07/03/2001)
- Seeing with sound (05/31/2001)
- From watches to pianos: precision instrument and equipment repairers (05/30/2001)
- Occupations of independent contractors (04/30/2001)
- Truck drivers have the most lost-time injuries (03/29/2001)
- Lowest absence rate in farm jobs (03/23/2001)
- Taxing jobs: tax examiners, revenue agents, and collectors (03/13/2001)
- Wild jobs: working in zoos and aquariums (03/05/2001)
- Surge in demand for troubleshooters (02/27/2001)
- Union membership by occupation in 2000 (01/23/2001)
- Librarians in 2008—more in business settings (01/04/2001)
- Earnings by occupation in 1998 (10/25/2000)
- Farmers have highest percentage of older workers (09/11/2000)
- Jobs most affected by baby-boomer retirements (08/31/2000)
- Pay gap crosses occupational lines (08/04/2000)
- Service workers on alternative shifts more often (08/03/2000)
- Wages of salespersons in 1998 (07/20/2000)
- Longer hours at the top? (06/21/2000)
- About one in five workers have supervisory role (04/26/2000)
- Work-related homicide rates highest among cabbies, cops (04/05/2000)
- Strong growth in managerial and professional occupations in 1999 (03/23/2000)
- Total job openings, 1998-2008: replacement and growth (03/14/2000)
- Managers, laborers unemployed longest in 1999 (03/13/2000)
- Wages, occupations, and job duties (02/16/2000)
- Farmers projected to have largest job loss in 1998-2008 (02/08/2000)
- Gender pay gap largest in sales, lowest in farm occupations (01/24/2000)
- The top-paying service occupations in 1998 (01/21/2000)
- Protective service occupations have highest union membership rate (01/20/2000)
- Occupations with the largest growth, 1998-2008 (12/29/1999)
- Annual wages of nurses, doctors, and other health care workers (12/23/1999)
- Blue-collar workers have highest eligibility for short-term disability benefits, lowest for long-term (11/29/1999)
- Occupational stress and time away from work (10/20/1999)
- Displaced professional workers most likely to return to same occupation (10/15/1999)
- Shifts within and across occupations drive changes in skill levels (09/17/1999)
- Service, farm workers have highest poverty rates (09/07/1999)
- Projections of service worker employment generally on target (06/18/1999)
- Assessing projections of management jobs (06/16/1999)
- Savings and thrift plans in small private establishments (06/11/1999)
- Women in managerial, professional occupations earn more than others (06/10/1999)
- More temporary workers expected in certain blue-collar occupations (03/03/1999)
- Demographics vary by occupation (02/16/1999)
- Production occupations have largest employment share in 1997 (01/13/1999)
- Professional and managerial occupations have higher wages (12/29/1998)
- Entrants concentrated in sales, clerical, and service occupations (12/21/1998)
- Young workers more likely to try new occupations (12/14/1998)
- Services industry has highest number of emerging occupations (12/07/1998)
- New occupations emerging across industry lines (11/09/1998)
Of interest
Spotlight on Statistics: National Hispanic Heritage Month
In this Spotlight, we take a look at the Hispanic labor force—including labor force participation, employment and unemployment, educational attainment, geographic location, country of birth, earnings, consumer expenditures, time use, workplace injuries, and employment projections.
Read more »
|