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Registered Nurses 
Average Salary:
$63,750
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required. Includes advance practice nurses such as: nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwives, and certified registered nurse anesthetists. Advanced practice nursing is practiced by RNs who have specialized formal, post-basic education and who function in highly autonomous and specialized roles.
Acute Care Nurses
Average Salary:
$63,750
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Provide advanced nursing care for patients with acute conditions such as heart attacks, respiratory distress syndrome, or shock. May care for pre- and post-operative patients or perform advanced, invasive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures.
Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses
Average Salary:
$63,750
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Provide advanced nursing care for patients with psychiatric disorders. May provide psychotherapy under the direction of a psychiatrist.
Critical Care Nurses
Average Salary:
$63,750
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Provide advanced nursing care for patients in critical or coronary care units.
Home Health Aides
Average Salary:
$20,480
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Provide routine, personal healthcare, such as bathing, dressing, or grooming, to elderly, convalescent, or disabled persons in the home of patients or in a residential care facility.
Customer Service Representatives
Average Salary:
$30,290
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.
Patient Representatives
Average Salary:
$30,290
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
Assist patients in obtaining services, understanding policies and making health care decisions.
Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food
Average Salary:
$17,220
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Perform duties which combine both food preparation and food service.
Personal and Home Care Aides
Average Salary:
$19,680
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Assist elderly or disabled adults with daily living activities at the person's home or in a daytime non-residential facility. Duties performed at a place of residence may include keeping house (making beds, doing laundry, washing dishes) and preparing meals. May provide meals and supervised activities at non-residential care facilities. May advise families, the elderly, and disabled on such things as nutrition, cleanliness, and household utilities.
Retail Salespersons
Average Salary:
$20,260
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Sell merchandise, such as furniture, motor vehicles, appliances, or apparel in a retail establishment.
Office Clerks, General
Average Salary:
$26,140
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Perform duties too varied and diverse to be classified in any specific office clerical occupation, requiring limited knowledge of office management 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.
Accountants and Auditors
Average Salary:
$60,340
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records for the purpose of giving advice or preparing statements. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.
Accountants
Average Salary:
$60,340
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
Analyze financial information and prepare financial reports to determine or maintain record of assets, liabilities, profit and loss, tax liability, or other financial activities within an organization.
Auditors
Average Salary:
$60,340
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
Examine and analyze accounting records to determine financial status of establishment and prepare financial reports concerning operating procedures.
Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants
Average Salary:
$24,040
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Provide basic patient care under direction of nursing staff. Perform duties, such as feed, bathe, dress, groom, or move patients, or change linens.
Construction Laborers
Average Salary:
$29,150
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Perform tasks involving physical labor at building, highway, and heavy construction projects, tunnel and shaft excavations, and demolition 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, clean up rubble and debris, and remove asbestos, lead, and other hazardous waste materials. May assist other craft workers.
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
Average Salary:
$50,510
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
Teach pupils in public or private schools at the elementary level basic academic, social, and other formative skills.
Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer
Average Salary:
$37,730
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Drive a tractor-trailer combination or a truck with a capacity of at least 26,000 GVW, to transport and deliver goods, livestock, or materials in liquid, loose, or packaged form. May be required to unload truck. May require use of automated routing equipment. Requires commercial drivers' license.
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
Average Salary:
$23,480
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.
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
Average Salary:
$33,450
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.