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Retail Salespersons 
Average Salary:
$52,930
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Sell merchandise, such as furniture, motor vehicles, appliances, or apparel to consumers.
Office Clerks, General
Average Salary:
$49,984
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Personnel management helps individuals develop their military careers. It also serves the military's need to fill jobs with qualified workers. Personnel specialists collect and store information about the people in the military, such as training, job assignment, promotion, and health information. They work directly with service personnel and their families.
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers
Average Salary:
$44,865
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military uses numerous vehicles to transport its troops, equipment, and supplies. Together, the services own and operate about 50,000 heavy trucks and buses. Vehicle drivers operate all types of heavy military vehicles. They drive fuel or water tank trucks, semi-tractor trailers, heavy troop transports, and passenger buses.
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks
Average Salary:
$52,383
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military maintains a large inventory of food, medicines, ammunition, spare parts, and other supplies. Keeping the military's supply system operating smoothly is an important job. The lives of combat troops in the field may depend on receiving the right supplies on time. Warehousing and distribution specialists receive, store, record, and issue military supplies.
Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers
Average Salary:
$68,802
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military must keep accurate information for planning and managing its operations. Paper and electronic records are kept on equipment, funds, personnel, supplies, and all other aspects of the military. Administrative support specialists record information, fill out reports, and maintain files to assist in the operation of military offices.
Security Guards
Average Salary:
$34,858
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military services have their own law enforcement and police forces. These specialists investigate crimes committed on military property or that involve military personnel. Military police do many of the same things as civilian officers, control traffic, prevent crime, and respond to emergencies. They also guard military bases and inmates in military correctional facilities.
Medical Assistants
Average Salary:
$54,972
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military provides medical care to all men and women in the services. Medical care technicians work with teams of physicians, nurses, and other health care professionals to provide treatment to patients. They help give patients the care and treatment required to help them recover from illness or injury. They also prepare rooms, equipment, and supplies in hospitals and medical clinics.
Management Analysts
Average Salary:
$123,137
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
Good management and planning reduces waste and inefficiency. By improving its management techniques, the military makes the best use of its human and material resources. Management analysts and planners study operations and organizations, identify and evaluate problems, and develop recommendations based on their findings.
Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
Average Salary:
Not Available
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, handling information requests, and performing clerical functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings. May also train and supervise lower-level clerical staff.
Maintenance and Repair Workers, General
Average Salary:
$54,885
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Combat forces use many different types of weapons from small field artillery to large ballistic missiles. Weapons may be fired from ships, planes, and ground stations. Most modern weapons have electronic components and systems that assist in locating targets, aiming weapons, and firing them. Weapons maintenance technicians maintain and repair weapons used by combat forces.
Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
Average Salary:
$73,230
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military operates retail stores for the convenience of service men and women. In some areas, particularly overseas, the goods and services offered at military stores, laundries, and barbershops are not otherwise available. Store managers direct the operation of retail service, food, and merchandise outlets. They also manage personnel who store food, supplies, and equipment.
Electricians
Average Salary:
$48,243
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military uses electricity to do many jobs, including lighting hospitals, running power tools, and operating computers. Building electricians install and repair electrical wiring systems in offices, repair shops, airplane hangars, and other buildings on military bases.
Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
Average Salary:
$55,579
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military builds many temporary and permanent structures each year. Lumber, plywood, plasterboard, and concrete and masonry (bricks, stone, and concrete blocks) are the basic building materials for many of these projects. Construction specialists build and repair buildings, bridges, foundations, dams, and bunkers. They work with engineers and other building specialists as part of military construction teams.
Software Developers, Systems Software
Average Salary:
Not Available
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
The military uses computers in almost every aspect of its operations. Military computers are used to process payroll and personnel information, control the targeting and firing of weapons systems, account for money, gather and analyze intelligence data, and make it easier to communicate around the world. Computer systems officers direct the operations of computer centers and are involved in the planning and development of computer systems.
Business Operations Specialists, All Other
Average Salary:
$67,309
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
Information about the military capabilities of foreign countries is vital to our national defense. Our leaders need to know the strengths and weaknesses of both friendly and unfriendly countries. International relations officers collect, analyze, and report information about foreign countries to be used for military planning.
Computer Systems Analysts
Average Salary:
$112,670
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
The military uses computers in almost every aspect of its operations. Military computers are used to process payroll and personnel information, control the targeting and firing of weapons systems, account for money, gather and analyze intelligence data, and make it easier to communicate around the world. Computer systems officers direct the operations of computer centers and are involved in the planning and development of computer systems.
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
Average Salary:
$65,247
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
The military must keep accurate information for planning and managing its operations. Paper and electronic records are kept on equipment, funds, personnel, supplies, and all other aspects of the military. Administrative support specialists record information, fill out reports, and maintain files to assist in the operation of military offices.
Pharmacy Technicians
Average Salary:
$48,876
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Prescription drugs and medicines are important to medical treatment. Patients and physicians depend on military pharmacies to fill their prescriptions accurately. Pharmacy technicians prepare and dispense prescribed drugs and medicines under the supervision of pharmacists or physicians. They also maintain pharmacy supplies and records
Network and Computer Systems Administrators
Average Salary:
$57,239
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
The military uses computers to store and process data on personnel, weather, communications, finances, and many other areas, as well as to operate sophisticated equipment during combat and peace time maneuvers.
Dental Assistants
Average Salary:
$51,378
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Dental care is one of the health services provided to all military personnel. It is available in military dental clinics all over the world. Dental specialists assist military dentists in examining and treating patients. They also help manage dental offices.