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Registered Nurses 
Average Salary:
$64,690
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.
Acute Care Nurses
Average Salary:
$64,690
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:
$64,690
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:
$64,690
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Provide advanced nursing care for patients in critical or coronary care units.
Home Health Aides
Average Salary:
$20,560
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.
Customer Service Representatives
Average Salary:
$30,460
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:
$30,460
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
Assist patients in obtaining services, understanding policies and making health care decisions.
Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food
Average Salary:
$17,950
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Perform duties which combine preparing and serving food and nonalcoholic beverages.
Personal Care Aides
Average Salary:
$19,640
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.
Retail Salespersons
Average Salary:
$20,670
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Sell merchandise, such as furniture, motor vehicles, appliances, or apparel to consumers.
Office Clerks, General
Average Salary:
$26,610
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.
Accountants and Auditors
Average Salary:
$61,690
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
Examine, analyze, and interpret accounting records to prepare financial statements, give advice, or audit and evaluate statements prepared by others. Install or advise on systems of recording costs or other financial and budgetary data.
Accountants
Average Salary:
$61,690
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:
$61,690
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 Assistants
Average Salary:
$24,010
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
Provide basic patient care under direction of nursing staff. Perform duties such as feed, bathe, dress, groom, or move patients, or change linens. May transfer or transport patients. Includes nursing care attendants, nursing aides, and nursing attendants.
Orderlies
Average Salary:
$24,010
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
Transport patients to areas such as operating rooms or x-ray rooms using wheelchairs, stretchers, or moveable beds. May maintain stocks of supplies or clean and transport equipment.
Construction Laborers
Average Salary:
$29,280
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.
Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
Average Salary:
$51,660
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
Teach students basic academic, social, and other formative skills in public or private schools at the elementary level.
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
Average Salary:
$37,770
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.
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers
Average Salary:
$23,400
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.