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Career Forecast Reports

OCCUPATIONS WITH THE LARGEST JOB DECLINE 2002-2012
*Source: U.S. Dept. of Labor Bureau of Statistics as published in the
February 2004 Monthly Labor Review

The numbers below are in thousands of jobs:

2000 Standard Occupation

Employment

Change

2002

2012

Percent

Farmers and ranchers

1,158

920

-21

Sewing machine operators

315

216

-31

Word processors and typists

241

148

-39

Stock clerks and order fillers

1,628

1,560

-4

Secretaries, except legal, medical, and executive

1,975

1,918

-3

Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers

281

230

-18

Computer operators

182

151

-17

Telephone operators

50

22

-56

Postal service mail sorters, processors, and processing machine operators

253

226

-10

Loan interviewers and clerks

170

146

-14

Data entry keyers

392

371

-5

Telemarketers

428

406

-5

Textile knitting and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders

53

33

-39

Textile winding, twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders

66

46

-30

Team assemblers

1,174

1,155

-2

Order clerks

330

311

-6

Door-to-door sales workers, news and street vendors, and related workers

155

137

-12

Travel agents

118

102

-14

Brokerage clerks

78

67

-15

Eligibility interviewers, government programs

94

83

-12

Prepress technicians and workers

91

81

-11

Fishers and related fishing workers

36

27

-27

Sewers, hand

36

29

-21

Textile cutting machine setters, operators, and tenders

34

26

-23

Textile bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders

27

19

-29

Announcers

76

68

-10

Meter readers, utilities

54

46

-14

Chemical plant and system operators

58

51

-12

Mixing and blending machine setters, operators, and tenders

106

99

-7

Credit authorizers, checkers, and clerks

80

74

-7

MORE REPORTS:
Employment by Major Occupational Group
Occupations with the Larget Job Growth, 2002-2012
Employment by Occupation, 2002 and projected 2012