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Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators

Architecture & Construction $37.71 High school diploma or equivalent 4%  projected growth 30  annual job openings

Operate or maintain stationary engines, boilers, or other mechanical equipment to provide utilities for buildings or industrial processes. Operate equipment such as steam engines, generators, motors, turbines, and steam boilers.

Stockers and Order Fillers

Business Management & Administration $17.31 High school diploma or equivalent 17%  projected growth 4,150  annual job openings

Receive, store, and issue merchandise, materials, equipment, and other items from stockroom, warehouse, or storage yard to fill shelves, racks, tables, or customers' orders. May operate power equipment to fill orders. May mark prices on merchandise and set up sales displays.

Stonemasons

Architecture & Construction $27.31 High school diploma or equivalent 4%  projected growth 20  annual job openings

Build stone structures, such as piers, walls, and abutments. Lay walks, curbstones, or special types of masonry for vats, tanks, and floors.

Structural Iron and Steel Workers

Architecture & Construction $26.48 High school diploma or equivalent 14%  projected growth 40  annual job openings

Raise, place, and unite iron or steel girders, columns, and other structural members to form completed structures or structural frameworks. May erect metal storage tanks and assemble prefabricated metal buildings.

Substitute Teachers, Short-Term

Education & Training $17.80 Bachelor's degree 7%  projected growth 660  annual job openings

Teach students on a short-term basis as a temporary replacement for a regular classroom teacher, typically using the regular teacher's lesson plan.

Surgical Assistants

Health Science $24.05 Postsecondary nondegree award 4%  projected growth 60  annual job openings

Assist in operations, under the supervision of surgeons. May, in accordance with state laws, help surgeons to make incisions and close surgical sites, manipulate or remove tissues, implant surgical devices or drains, suction the surgical site, place catheters, clamp or cauterize vessels or tissue, and apply dressings to surgical site.

Survey Researchers

Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics $27.03 Master's degree 16%  projected growth 50  annual job openings

Plan, develop, or conduct surveys. May analyze and interpret the meaning of survey data, determine survey objectives, or suggest or test question wording. Includes social scientists who primarily design questionnaires or supervise survey teams.

Surveying and Mapping Technicians

Architecture & Construction $29.71 High school diploma or equivalent 7%  projected growth 40  annual job openings

Perform surveying and mapping duties, usually under the direction of an engineer, surveyor, cartographer, or photogrammetrist, to obtain data used for construction, mapmaking, boundary location, mining, or other purposes. May calculate mapmaking information and create maps from source data, such as surveying notes, aerial photography, satellite data, or other maps to show topographical features, political boundaries, and other features. May verify accuracy and completeness of maps.

Surveyors

Architecture & Construction $36.75 Bachelor's degree 3%  projected growth 30  annual job openings

Make exact measurements and determine property boundaries. Provide data relevant to the shape, contour, gravitation, location, elevation, or dimension of land or land features on or near the earth's surface for engineering, mapmaking, mining, land evaluation, construction, and other purposes.

Tailors, Dressmakers, and Custom Sewers

Human Services $21.34 No formal educational credential 7%  projected growth 40  annual job openings

Design, make, alter, repair, or fit garments.