| Rank | Title | Local Jobs | Local Mean Salary | Typical Local Salary | National Growth % 2006-2016 | National % With College Degree |
|---|
| 1 | Registered nurses | 1,800 | 56,000 | $43,460 - 72,030 | 24% | 56% |
| 2 | Elementary school teachers, except special education | 1,320 | 50,590 | $34,440 - 67,500 | 14% | 95% |
| 3 | Secondary school teachers, except special and vocational education | 500 | 55,930 | $37,950 - 78,860 | 6% | 96% |
| 4 | Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, except technical and scientific products | 500 | 60,170 | $30,230 - 114,080 | 8% | 51% |
| 5 | Accountants and auditors | 470 | 52,790 | $33,720 - 89,230 | 18% | 79% |
| 6 | Biological technicians | 370 | 38,620 | $23,970 - 56,790 | 16% | 60% |
| 7 | Teachers and instructors, all other | 350 | 19,890 | $16,420 - 23,740 | 9% | 54% |
| 8 | Medical and health services managers | 280 | 84,770 | $44,220 - 135,500 | 16% | 57% |
| 9 | Chief executives | 240 | 139,140 | $67,060 - | 2% | 65% |
| 10 | Educational, vocational, and school counselors | 230 | 43,490 | $15,980 - 67,650 | 13% | 73% |
| 11 | Pharmacists | 220 | 97,960 | $69,440 - 126,590 | 22% | 97% |
| 12 | Financial managers | 210 | 96,010 | $55,090 - 147,070 | 13% | 60% |
| 13 | Medical and clinical laboratory technologists | 210 | 42,510 | $22,680 - 65,360 | 12% | 51% |
| 14 | Special education teachers, preschool, kindergarten, and elementary school | 210 | 52,780 | $36,630 - 72,120 | 20% | 87% |
| 15 | Computer systems analysts | 180 | 64,510 | $41,500 - 96,100 | 29% | 68% |
| 16 | Management analysts | 170 | 73,380 | $34,260 - 119,710 | 22% | 78% |
| 17 | Graphic designers | 170 | 42,330 | $25,870 - 63,000 | 10% | 55% |
| 18 | Training and development specialists | 160 | 51,930 | $27,160 - 78,450 | 18% | 56% |
| 19 | Physical therapists | 150 | 61,990 | $36,700 - 85,790 | 27% | 89% |
| 20 | Sales representatives, wholesale and manufacturing, technical and scientific products | 140 | 54,990 | $27,190 - 98,670 | 12% | 51% |
| 21 | Sales managers | 130 | 111,780 | $51,560 - | 10% | 69% |
| 22 | Child, family, and school social workers | 130 | 34,260 | $25,990 - 46,330 | 19% | 77% |
| 23 | Social and human service assistants | 120 | 23,820 | $15,420 - 35,240 | 34% | 58% |
| 24 | Librarians | 120 | 54,600 | $35,520 - 79,330 | 4% | 85% |
| 25 | Lawyers | 120 | 64,240 | $39,500 - 91,710 | 11% | 99% |
| 26 | Education administrators, elementary and secondary school | 110 | 86,850 | $66,400 - 111,460 | 8% | 78% |
| 27 | Managers, all other | 110 | 115,990 | $67,240 - 164,800 | 7% | 55% |
| 28 | Physician assistants | 110 | 80,080 | $63,100 - 101,640 | 27% | 67% |
| 29 | Community and social service specialists, all other | 100 | 33,230 | $21,660 - 48,100 | 25% | 58% |
| 30 | Instructional coordinators | 90 | 59,450 | $33,290 - 89,560 | 23% | 79% |
| 31 | Employment, recruitment, and placement specialists | 90 | 40,490 | $27,180 - 52,370 | 18% | 56% |
| 32 | Financial analysts | 90 | 54,760 | $32,870 - 90,280 | 34% | 87% |
| 33 | Medical and public health social workers | 90 | 43,610 | $29,240 - 61,190 | 24% | 77% |
| 34 | Mechanical engineers | 90 | 64,190 | $36,990 - 96,090 | 4% | 78% |
| 35 | Compliance officers, except agriculture, construction, health and safety, and transportation | 80 | 49,230 | $26,340 - 85,940 | 5% | 58% |
| 36 | Computer programmers | 80 | 55,130 | $35,680 - 90,750 | 0% | 73% |
| 37 | Computer software engineers, applications | 80 | | $ - | 45% | 85% |
| 38 | Self-enrichment education teachers | 80 | 38,460 | $26,190 - 62,300 | 23% | 54% |
| 39 | Social and community service managers | 70 | 44,590 | $27,400 - 66,990 | 25% | 72% |
| 40 | Health educators | 70 | 33,180 | $22,740 - 49,490 | 26% | 58% |
| 41 | Veterinarians | 70 | 71,200 | $38,900 - 104,110 | 35% | 100% |
| 42 | Public relations specialists | 70 | 43,150 | $27,590 - 63,170 | 18% | 81% |
| 43 | Human resources, training, and labor relations specialists, all other | 60 | 51,560 | $36,410 - 71,830 | 17% | 56% |
| 44 | Electrical engineers | 60 | 74,730 | $41,780 - 102,590 | 6% | 81% |
| 45 | Marketing managers | 60 | 106,010 | $55,570 - 164,020 | 14% | 69% |
| 46 | Meeting and convention planners | 60 | 32,540 | $25,020 - 45,940 | 20% | 67% |
| 47 | Editors | 60 | 54,840 | $27,120 - 117,840 | 2% | 81% |
| 48 | Advertising sales agents | 50 | 28,330 | $17,100 - 39,700 | 20% | 56% |
| 49 | Speech-language pathologists | 50 | 72,400 | $42,820 - 125,140 | 11% | 98% |
| 50 | Civil engineers | 50 | 59,890 | $37,810 - 80,120 | 18% | 87% |
| 51 | Dentists, general | 50 | 194,220 | $119,550 - | 9% | 100% |
| 52 | Computer specialists, all other | 50 | 63,470 | $33,900 - 95,600 | 15% | 68% |
| 53 | Occupational therapists | 40 | 64,540 | $54,400 - 81,550 | 23% | 90% |
| 54 | Legislators | 40 | 15,040 | $12,720 - 21,930 | 1% | 65% |
| 55 | Market research analysts | 40 | 37,280 | $21,520 - 58,540 | 20% | 82% |
| 56 | Compensation, benefits, and job analysis specialists | 40 | 44,020 | $32,790 - 66,110 | 18% | 56% |
| 57 | Athletic trainers | 40 | 46,320 | $35,920 - 52,950 | 24% | 72% |
| 58 | Industrial engineers | 40 | 75,570 | $49,470 - 99,300 | 20% | 74% |
| 59 | Detectives and criminal investigators | 40 | 46,000 | $34,900 - 60,800 | 17% | 54% |
| 60 | Engineering managers | 40 | 93,620 | $69,250 - 124,550 | 7% | 84% |
| 61 | Purchasing managers | 40 | 96,330 | $42,780 - 153,720 | 3% | 57% |
| 62 | Clinical, counseling, and school psychologists | 40 | 64,220 | $24,190 - 103,760 | 16% | 99% |
| 63 | Merchandise displayers and window trimmers | 40 | 38,520 | $26,870 - 53,120 | 11% | 55% |
| 64 | Securities, commodities, and financial services sales agents | 30 | 99,480 | $35,210 - | 25% | 67% |
| 65 | Engineers, all other | 30 | 68,010 | $43,120 - 99,450 | 6% | 82% |
| 66 | Dietitians and nutritionists | 30 | 36,740 | $15,020 - 62,420 | 9% | 72% |
| 67 | Financial specialists, all other | 30 | 43,560 | $28,260 - 63,980 | 12% | 50% |
| Rank | Title | Local Jobs | Local Mean Salary | Typical Local Salary | National Growth % 2006-2016 | National % With College Degree |
|---|
| 1 | Retail salespersons | 3,100 | 21,930 | $13,800 - 31,500 | 12% | 25% |
| 2 | Combined food preparation and serving workers, including fast food | 2,250 | 15,520 | $12,890 - 19,800 | 18% | 5% |
| 3 | Cashiers | 1,950 | 16,860 | $12,930 - 22,960 | -2% | 10% |
| 4 | Waiters and waitresses | 1,810 | 15,630 | $12,820 - 22,070 | 11% | 14% |
| 5 | Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand | 1,720 | 22,330 | $15,680 - 30,300 | 2% | 5% |
| 6 | First-line supervisors/managers of office and administrative support workers | 1,470 | 39,950 | $26,080 - 60,720 | 6% | 29% |
| 7 | Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive | 1,390 | 25,550 | $17,900 - 34,750 | 1% | 18% |
| 8 | Janitors and cleaners, except maids and housekeeping cleaners | 1,350 | 22,160 | $15,870 - 30,660 | 15% | 4% |
| 9 | General and operations managers | 1,350 | 80,830 | $40,260 - 146,980 | 2% | 48% |
| 10 | Office clerks, general | 1,330 | 23,170 | $15,030 - 32,440 | 13% | 19% |
| 11 | Stock clerks and order fillers | 1,260 | 22,150 | $14,730 - 31,300 | -7% | 8% |
| 12 | Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks | 1,160 | 30,010 | $18,440 - 42,820 | 13% | 16% |
| 13 | Teacher assistants | 1,090 | 18,420 | $13,760 - 24,390 | 10% | 18% |
| 14 | Customer service representatives | 1,060 | 26,290 | $13,670 - 41,430 | 25% | 22% |
| 15 | Team assemblers | 940 | 30,940 | $15,230 - 40,270 | 0% | 5% |
| 16 | Executive secretaries and administrative assistants | 880 | 36,380 | $24,230 - 50,280 | 15% | 18% |
| 17 | First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers | 870 | 34,090 | $21,690 - 50,070 | 4% | 25% |
| 18 | Truck drivers, heavy and tractor-trailer | 790 | 35,790 | $21,340 - 63,240 | 10% | 4% |
| 19 | Maintenance and repair workers, general | 730 | 32,340 | $21,310 - 47,790 | 10% | 6% |
| 20 | Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants | 650 | 20,570 | $16,300 - 26,290 | 18% | 7% |
| 21 | First-line supervisors/managers of food preparation and serving workers | 640 | 28,410 | $20,140 - 44,850 | 11% | 14% |
| 22 | Cooks, restaurant | 590 | 20,190 | $13,840 - 26,560 | 12% | 5% |
| 23 | Receptionists and information clerks | 580 | 24,310 | $16,560 - 32,290 | 17% | 13% |
| 24 | Truck drivers, light or delivery services | 570 | 32,320 | $18,400 - 58,170 | 8% | 4% |
| 25 | Cooks, fast food | 550 | 16,180 | $13,120 - 19,850 | 8% | 5% |
| 26 | Telemarketers | 530 | 19,800 | $16,530 - 27,110 | -9% | 14% |
| 27 | Food preparation workers | 520 | 18,740 | $14,020 - 24,550 | 15% | 7% |
| 28 | Police and sheriff's patrol officers | 510 | 38,450 | $28,270 - 49,950 | 11% | 33% |
| 29 | Packers and packagers, hand | 500 | 24,010 | $13,640 - 39,370 | -11% | 3% |
| 30 | Maids and housekeeping cleaners | 490 | 17,830 | $13,380 - 24,180 | 13% | 5% |
| 31 | Landscaping and groundskeeping workers | 470 | 21,950 | $17,050 - 30,580 | 18% | 6% |
| 32 | Automotive service technicians and mechanics | 450 | 40,750 | $23,670 - 63,620 | 14% | 4% |
| 33 | Hosts and hostesses, restaurant, lounge, and coffee shop | 440 | 16,480 | $12,930 - 21,290 | 10% | 17% |
| 34 | Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses | 440 | 39,510 | $27,210 - 54,150 | 14% | 7% |
| 35 | Cooks, short order | 420 | 19,240 | $12,980 - 34,710 | 5% | 5% |
| 36 | Computer support specialists | 410 | 37,020 | $19,360 - 52,340 | 13% | 43% |
| 37 | First-line supervisors/managers of production and operating workers | 400 | 44,160 | $26,700 - 65,440 | -4% | 15% |
| 38 | Medical secretaries | 390 | 29,040 | $21,060 - 38,790 | 17% | 18% |
| 39 | Dishwashers | 370 | 15,210 | $12,880 - 18,860 | 10% | 3% |
| 40 | Carpenters | 360 | 35,700 | $21,160 - 49,290 | 10% | 6% |
| 41 | Construction laborers | 350 | 25,000 | $16,210 - 37,300 | 11% | 5% |
| 42 | Preschool teachers, except special education | 350 | 17,750 | $13,270 - 23,550 | 26% | 43% |
| 43 | Tellers | 340 | 22,870 | $17,190 - 29,760 | 14% | 16% |
| 44 | Personal and home care aides | 340 | 18,000 | $16,260 - 20,060 | 51% | 10% |
| 45 | Bartenders | 330 | 16,230 | $12,970 - 21,000 | 11% | 17% |
| 46 | Home health aides | 330 | 18,990 | $16,490 - 23,150 | 49% | 7% |
| 47 | First-line supervisors/managers of mechanics, installers, and repairers | 320 | 47,610 | $27,790 - 71,570 | 7% | 13% |
| 48 | Medical assistants | 310 | 29,160 | $21,500 - 38,320 | 35% | 10% |
| 49 | Security guards | 310 | 27,230 | $13,300 - 55,910 | 17% | 13% |
| 50 | Coil winders, tapers, and finishers | 300 | 26,330 | $13,780 - 35,830 | -30% | 6% |
| 51 | Administrative services managers | 290 | 76,570 | $42,120 - 125,750 | 12% | 40% |
| 52 | Internists, general | 270 | 176,600 | $129,090 - | 0% | 0% |
| 53 | Industrial truck and tractor operators | 270 | 27,770 | $20,290 - 34,710 | -1% | 2% |
| 54 | Machine feeders and offbearers | 260 | 25,230 | $16,650 - 39,660 | -14% | 0% |
| 55 | Shipping, receiving, and traffic clerks | 260 | 29,700 | $21,150 - 41,960 | 4% | 6% |
| 56 | Bill and account collectors | 250 | 27,300 | $16,070 - 40,330 | 23% | 13% |
| 57 | Billing and posting clerks and machine operators | 250 | 30,090 | $20,420 - 46,130 | 4% | 15% |
| 58 | Structural metal fabricators and fitters | 240 | 29,680 | $25,940 - 35,690 | 0% | 0% |
| 59 | Production workers, all other | 240 | 21,470 | $13,810 - 31,790 | 2% | 5% |
| 60 | Welders, cutters, solderers, and brazers | 240 | 30,350 | $24,410 - 38,660 | 5% | 2% |
| 61 | Radiologic technologists and technicians | 230 | 47,370 | $30,180 - 66,390 | 15% | 25% |
| 62 | Sheet metal workers | 220 | 29,680 | $19,810 - 40,430 | 7% | 4% |
| 63 | Electricians | 220 | 41,690 | $28,650 - 55,870 | 7% | 7% |
| 64 | Recreation workers | 220 | 24,140 | $16,350 - 37,870 | 13% | 47% |
| 65 | Pharmacy technicians | 220 | 25,290 | $19,180 - 32,260 | 32% | 16% |
| 66 | First-line supervisors/managers of construction trades and extraction workers | 210 | 48,910 | $32,750 - 69,010 | 9% | 10% |
| 67 | Counter and rental clerks | 210 | 22,140 | $13,150 - 38,400 | 23% | 16% |
| 68 | Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers | 210 | 31,490 | $20,060 - 48,100 | -6% | 14% |
| 69 | Postal service mail carriers | 210 | | | 1% | 11% |
| 70 | Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers | 200 | 14,770 | $12,820 - 16,960 | 12% | 6% |
| 71 | Machinists | 200 | 34,380 | $22,030 - 49,100 | -2% | 3% |
| 72 | Interviewers, except eligibility and loan | 190 | 26,820 | $15,690 - 37,280 | 10% | 24% |
| 73 | Dental assistants | 190 | 28,130 | $20,970 - 39,000 | 29% | 9% |
| 74 | Driver/sales workers | 190 | 23,570 | $14,090 - 33,040 | -4% | 4% |
| 75 | Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators | 190 | 33,290 | $23,850 - 48,440 | 8% | 3% |
| 76 | Veterinary technologists and technicians | 180 | 30,890 | $16,410 - 46,000 | 41% | 16% |
| 77 | Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters | 180 | 35,320 | $27,690 - 45,300 | 11% | 4% |
| 78 | Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators | 180 | | | -7% | 12% |
| 79 | Laundry and dry-cleaning workers | 170 | 17,940 | $14,180 - 22,350 | 10% | 5% |
| 80 | Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic | 170 | 28,120 | $21,570 - 37,500 | -14% | 0% |
| 81 | Cooks, institution and cafeteria | 170 | 20,710 | $15,100 - 26,860 | 11% | 5% |
| 82 | Insurance sales agents | 170 | 50,280 | $27,440 - 103,240 | 13% | 45% |
| 83 | Telecommunications line installers and repairers | 170 | 40,680 | $23,780 - 61,940 | 5% | 8% |
| 84 | Hairdressers, hairstylists, and cosmetologists | 170 | 28,050 | $13,670 - 40,990 | 12% | 6% |
| 85 | Emergency medical technicians and paramedics | 160 | 27,240 | $21,690 - 37,720 | 19% | 14% |
| 86 | Kindergarten teachers, except special education | 150 | 44,510 | $32,670 - 61,500 | 16% | 43% |
| 87 | Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders | 150 | 22,730 | $18,120 - 28,280 | -4% | 5% |
| 88 | Nonfarm animal caretakers | 150 | 16,220 | $12,760 - 20,360 | 18% | 16% |
| 89 | Business operations specialists, all other | 150 | 60,410 | $33,250 - 95,430 | 21% | 49% |
| 90 | First-line supervisors/managers of housekeeping and janitorial workers | 150 | 29,850 | $21,930 - 40,010 | 13% | 11% |
| 91 | Surgical technologists | 140 | 33,150 | $27,050 - 41,270 | 25% | 16% |
| 92 | Dental hygienists | 140 | 59,940 | $49,290 - 69,020 | 30% | 33% |
| 93 | Refuse and recyclable material collectors | 140 | 30,460 | $22,710 - 39,420 | 7% | 3% |
| 94 | Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic | 140 | 20,810 | $16,770 - 31,220 | -15% | 0% |
| 95 | Fitness trainers and aerobics instructors | 140 | 34,210 | $13,350 - 55,230 | 27% | 47% |
| 96 | Painters, construction and maintenance | 130 | 29,210 | $22,010 - 38,190 | 12% | 6% |
| 97 | Food servers, nonrestaurant | 130 | 17,320 | $13,190 - 23,140 | 16% | 9% |
| 98 | Production, planning, and expediting clerks | 130 | 33,980 | $18,740 - 56,830 | 4% | 30% |
| 99 | First-line supervisors/managers of police and detectives | 130 | 52,570 | $38,940 - 68,490 | 9% | 33% |
| 100 | Law clerks | 120 | 25,680 | $17,370 - 44,230 | 0% | 38% |