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November 2002 Article, Table 3

Employment of wage and salary workers age 25 and older with less than a bachelor’s degree and usual weekly earnings of $821 or more by occupation, 1998

Occupation Number (thousands) % of all workers % of workers with less than a bachelor's degree
All occupations 9,008 11 15
Accountants and auditors 65 5 15
Administrators and officials, public administration 75 13 30
Aircraft engine mechanics 51 38 44
Assemblers 63 6 7
Automotive mechanics 87 16 17
Carpenters 135 18 19
Computer programmers 91 19 47
Computer systems analysts and scientists 196 16 54
Construction laborers 50 9 10
Electrical and electronic engineers 84 14 58
Electrical and electronic equipment repairers, except phone 95 22 26
Electrical and electronic technicians 79 21 25
Electrical power installers and repairers 62 52 54
Electricians 203 33 35
Financial managers 76 12 31
Firefighting occupations 74 37 42
Freight, stock, and material movers, hand 54 6 7
Health technologists and technicians 83 7 9
Industrial machinery repairers 104 21 22
Investigators and adjusters, insurance and other 60 5 7
Machine operators and tenders, except precision 304 8 8
Machinists 96 21 22
Mail carriers and postal clerks 74 12 14
Managers and administrators not elsewhere classified 1,022 20 40
Managers, food serving and lodging establishments 95 12 15
Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations 112 16 44
Managers, medicine and health 63 10 19
Material moving equipment operators 138 15 15
Mechanical engineers 51 17 58
Other financial officers 64 11 24
Plant and system operators 78 31 35
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters 89 24 25
Police and detectives 200 20 27
Real estate sales occupations 56 17 29
Registered nurses 187 13 27
Sales occupations, other business services 61 14 26
Sales representatives, finance and business services 196 12 25
Sales representatives, mining, manufacturing and wholesale 199 17 30
Sales workers, motor vehicles and boats 56 22 27
Secretaries 65 3 4
Supervisors and proprietors, sales occupations 365 13 18
Supervisors, administrative support occupations 80 12 17
Supervisors, construction occupations 135 29 33
Supervisors, mechanics and repairers 79 33 38
Supervisors, production occupations 269 25 28
Supervisors, protective service occupations 57 27 39
Telephone and telephone line installers and repairers 93 38 42
Tool and die makers 53 43 45
Truckdrivers 383 17 18
Welders and cutters 75 16 16
All other occupations 2,426 6 9

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This article originally appeared in the Occupational Outlook Quarterly Fall 1999
A publication from the Bureau of Labor Statistics