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Retail Salespersons 
Average Salary:
$21,010
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Sell merchandise, such as furniture, motor vehicles, appliances, or apparel to consumers.
Home Health Aides
Average Salary:
$20,610
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Provide routine individualized healthcare such as changing bandages and dressing wounds, and applying topical medications to the elderly, convalescents, or persons with disabilities at the patient's home or in a care facility. Monitor or report changes in health status. May also provide personal care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming of patient.
Personal Care Aides
Average Salary:
$19,730
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Assist the elderly, convalescents, or persons with disabilities with daily living activities at the person's home or in a care facility. Duties performed at a place of residence may include keeping house (making beds, doing laundry, washing dishes) and preparing meals. May provide assistance at non-residential care facilities. May advise families, the elderly, convalescents, and persons with disabilities regarding such things as nutrition, cleanliness, and household activities.
Office Clerks, General
Average Salary:
$27,190
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Perform duties too varied and diverse to be classified in any specific office clerical occupation, requiring knowledge of office systems and procedures. Clerical duties may be assigned in accordance with the office procedures of individual establishments and may include a combination of answering telephones, bookkeeping, typing or word processing, stenography, office machine operation, and filing.
Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food
Average Salary:
$18,230
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Perform duties which combine preparing and serving food and nonalcoholic beverages.
Customer Service Representatives
Average Salary:
$30,610
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Interact with customers to provide information in response to inquiries about products and services and to handle and resolve complaints.
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
Average Salary:
$37,930
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Drive a tractor-trailer combination or a truck with a capacity of at least 26,000 pounds Gross Vehicle Weight (GVW). May be required to unload truck. Requires commercial drivers' license.
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
Average Salary:
$23,750
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Manually move freight, stock, or other materials or perform other general labor. Includes all manual laborers not elsewhere classified.
Childcare Workers
Average Salary:
$19,430
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and childcare institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play.
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
Average Salary:
$34,740
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete. Perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records. May also check the accuracy of figures, calculations, and postings pertaining to business transactions recorded by other workers.
Cashiers
Average Salary:
$18,820
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Receive and disburse money in establishments other than financial institutions. May use electronic scanners, cash registers, or related equipment. May process credit or debit card transactions and validate checks.
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
Average Salary:
$52,840
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
Teach students basic academic, social, and other formative skills in public or private schools at the elementary level.
Receptionists and Information Clerks
Average Salary:
$25,690
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Answer inquiries and provide information to the general public, customers, visitors, and other interested parties regarding activities conducted at establishment and location of departments, offices, and employees within the organization.
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners
Average Salary:
$22,370
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Keep buildings in clean and orderly condition. Perform heavy cleaning duties, such as cleaning floors, shampooing rugs, washing walls and glass, and removing rubbish. Duties may include tending furnace and boiler, performing routine maintenance activities, notifying management of need for repairs, and cleaning snow or debris from sidewalk.
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
Average Salary:
$23,410
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Landscape or maintain grounds of property using hand or power tools or equipment. Workers typically perform a variety of tasks, which may include any combination of the following: sod laying, mowing, trimming, planting, watering, fertilizing, digging, raking, sprinkler installation, and installation of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units.
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products
Average Salary:
$53,540
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
Sell goods for wholesalers or manufacturers to businesses or groups of individuals. Work requires substantial knowledge of items sold.
Construction Laborers
Average Salary:
$29,730
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Perform tasks involving physical labor at construction sites. May operate hand and power tools of all types: air hammers, earth tampers, cement mixers, small mechanical hoists, surveying and measuring equipment, and a variety of other equipment and instruments. May clean and prepare sites, dig trenches, set braces to support the sides of excavations, erect scaffolding, and clean up rubble, debris and other waste materials. May assist other craft workers.
Medical Secretaries
Average Salary:
$31,060
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Perform secretarial duties using specific knowledge of medical terminology and hospital, clinic, or laboratory procedures. Duties may include scheduling appointments, billing patients, and compiling and recording medical charts, reports, and correspondence.
Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
Average Salary:
$48,810
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of clerical and administrative support workers.
Carpenters
Average Salary:
$40,010
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
Construct, erect, install, or repair structures and fixtures made of wood, such as concrete forms; building frameworks, including partitions, joists, studding, and rafters; and wood stairways, window and door frames, and hardwood floors. May also install cabinets, siding, drywall and batt or roll insulation. Includes brattice builders who build doors or brattices (ventilation walls or partitions) in underground passageways.