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Special Education Teachers, Secondary School

Education & Training $30.55 Bachelor's degree 10%  projected growth 30  annual job openings

Teach academic, social, and life skills to secondary school students with learning, emotional, or physical disabilities. Includes teachers who specialize and work with students who are blind or have visual impairments; students who are deaf or have hearing impairments; and students with intellectual disabilities.

Speech-Language Pathologists

Health Science $33.04 Master's degree 24%  projected growth 20  annual job openings

Assess and treat persons with speech, language, voice, and fluency disorders. May select alternative communication systems and teach their use. May perform research related to speech and language problems.

Statisticians

Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics $42.43 Master's degree 50%  projected growth 10  annual job openings

Develop or apply mathematical or statistical theory and methods to collect, organize, interpret, and summarize numerical data to provide usable information. May specialize in fields such as biostatistics, agricultural statistics, business statistics, or economic statistics. Includes mathematical and survey statisticians.

Stockers and Order Fillers

Business Management & Administration $17.45 High school diploma or equivalent 33%  projected growth 810  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.

Structural Iron and Steel Workers

Architecture & Construction $31.79 High school diploma or equivalent 21%  projected growth 20  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.

Surgical Technologists

Health Science $23.68 Postsecondary nondegree award 13%  projected growth 10  annual job openings

Assist in operations, under the supervision of surgeons, registered nurses, or other surgical personnel. May help set up operating room, prepare and transport patients for surgery, adjust lights and equipment, pass instruments and other supplies to surgeons and surgeons' assistants, hold retractors, cut sutures, and help count sponges, needles, supplies, and instruments.

Surveying and Mapping Technicians

Architecture & Construction $22.63 High school diploma or equivalent 20%  projected growth 20  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 $28.97 Bachelor's degree 21%  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.

Tax Preparers

Finance $27.43 High school diploma or equivalent 25%  projected growth 10  annual job openings

Prepare tax returns for individuals or small businesses.

Teachers and Instructors, All Other

Education & Training $27.75 Bachelor's degree 17%  projected growth 60  annual job openings

All teachers and instructors not listed separately.