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Helpers--Extraction Workers

Architecture & Construction $21.50 High school diploma or equivalent 14%  projected growth 10  annual job openings

Help extraction craft workers, such as earth drillers, blasters and explosives workers, derrick operators, and mining machine operators, by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include supplying equipment or cleaning work area.

Helpers--Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Workers

Architecture & Construction $15.00 High school diploma or equivalent 13%  projected growth 550  annual job openings

Help installation, maintenance, and repair workers in maintenance, parts replacement, and repair of vehicles, industrial machinery, and electrical and electronic equipment. Perform duties such as furnishing tools, materials, and supplies to other workers; cleaning work area, machines, and tools; and holding materials or tools for other workers.

Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters

Architecture & Construction $16.96 High school diploma or equivalent 15%  projected growth 540  annual job openings

Help plumbers, pipefitters, steamfitters, or pipelayers by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Helpers--Roofers

Architecture & Construction $15.53 No formal educational credential 16%  projected growth 50  annual job openings

Help roofers by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying, or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.

Highway Maintenance Workers

Architecture & Construction $18.85 High school diploma or equivalent 5%  projected growth 440  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 $38.97 Master's degree 15%  projected growth 10  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and institutional records, newspapers and other periodicals, photographs, interviews, films, electronic media, and unpublished manuscripts, such as personal diaries and letters.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 $37.18 Doctoral or professional degree 8%  projected growth 80  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 $59.50 Bachelor's degree 13%  projected growth 400  annual job openings

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

Human Resources Specialists

Business Management & Administration $29.65 Bachelor's degree 14%  projected growth 2,420  annual job openings

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

Hydrologists

Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics $31.13 Bachelor's degree 6%  projected growth 20  annual job openings

Research the distribution, circulation, and physical properties of underground and surface waters; and study the form and intensity of precipitation and its rate of infiltration into the soil, movement through the earth, and return to the ocean and atmosphere.