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Highway Maintenance Workers

Architecture & Construction $20.53 High school diploma or equivalent 4%  projected growth 450  annual job openings

Maintain highways, municipal and rural roads, airport runways, and rights-of-way. Duties include patching broken or eroded pavement and repairing guard rails, highway markers, and snow fences. May also mow or clear brush from along road, or plow snow from roadway.

Historians

Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics $29.34 Master's degree 25%  projected growth 0  annual job openings

Research, analyze, record, and interpret the past as recorded in sources, such as government and institutional records, newspapers and other periodicals, photographs, interviews, films, electronic media, and unpublished manuscripts, such as personal diaries and letters.

History Teachers, Postsecondary

Education & Training $44.36 Doctoral or professional degree 9%  projected growth 40  annual job openings

Teach courses in human history and historiography. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Human Resources Managers

Business Management & Administration $55.49 Bachelor's degree 10%  projected growth 210  annual job openings

Plan, direct, or coordinate human resources activities and staff of an organization.

Human Resources Specialists

Business Management & Administration $28.02 Bachelor's degree 10%  projected growth 1,490  annual job openings

Recruit, screen, interview, or place individuals within an organization. May perform other activities in multiple human resources areas.

Industrial Engineers

Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics $39.31 Bachelor's degree 17%  projected growth 900  annual job openings

Design, develop, test, and evaluate integrated systems for managing industrial production processes, including human work factors, quality control, inventory control, logistics and material flow, cost analysis, and production coordination.

Industrial Machinery Mechanics

Manufacturing $30.09 High school diploma or equivalent 21%  projected growth 1,770  annual job openings

Repair, install, adjust, or maintain industrial production and processing machinery or refinery and pipeline distribution systems. May also install, dismantle, or move machinery and heavy equipment according to plans.

Industrial Production Managers

Business Management & Administration $46.86 Bachelor's degree 7%  projected growth 460  annual job openings

Plan, direct, or coordinate the work activities and resources necessary for manufacturing products in accordance with cost, quality, and quantity specifications.

Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators

Transportation, Distribution & Logistics $18.81 No formal educational credential 14%  projected growth 2,640  annual job openings

Operate industrial trucks or tractors equipped to move materials around a warehouse, storage yard, factory, construction site, or similar location.

Information and Record Clerks, All Other

Business Management & Administration $16.37 High school diploma or equivalent 2%  projected growth 360  annual job openings

All information and record clerks not listed separately.