Vocations in America: Snapshots of employment in the United States.
Jay Brandes, Reference Librarian.
The purpose of this resource is to provide an at-a-glance overview of the world of work; helping readers to more fully understand what people do for a living--what jobs, how many, and for what salary.
- DATA
BY OCCUPATIONAL CLUSTER Job titles, employment,
and salary are arranged by Clusters as defined in the Occupational Outlook
Handbook.
- DATA BY
SALARY Jobs by salary.
- DATA
BY EMPLOYMENT Jobs by number of workers.
- Additional resources Selected Web sites and books.
About this guide: Data was compiled from the Occupational Outlook Handbook <http://www.bls.gov/oco>. Annual salaries were rounded off to the nearest thousand. Hourly wages were converted to annual wages, also rounded off. Microsoft Access was used to organize the data and create the online tables, Microsoft Excel was used to tabulate employee totals and salary averages by cluster.
This page updated, spelling and links checked : Friday, October 19, 2007
