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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
|
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Sewing machine
operators
|
315
|
216
|
-31
|
|
Word processors
and typists
|
241
|
148
|
-39
|
|
Stock clerks and
order fillers
|
1,628
|
1,560
|
-4
|
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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
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Telemarketers
|
428
|
406
|
-5
|
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Textile knitting
and weaving machine setters, operators, and tenders
|
53
|
33
|
-39
|
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Textile winding,
twisting, and drawing out machine setters, operators, and tenders
|
66
|
46
|
-30
|
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Team assemblers
|
1,174
|
1,155
|
-2
|
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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
|
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Fishers and
related fishing workers
|
36
|
27
|
-27
|
|
Sewers, hand
|
36
|
29
|
-21
|
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Textile cutting
machine setters, operators, and tenders
|
34
|
26
|
-23
|
|
Textile
bleaching and dyeing machine operators and tenders
|
27
|
19
|
-29
|
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Announcers
|
76
|
68
|
-10
|
|
Meter readers,
utilities
|
54
|
46
|
-14
|
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Chemical plant
and system operators
|
58
|
51
|
-12
|
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Mixing and
blending machine setters, operators, and tenders
|
106
|
99
|
-7
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Credit
authorizers, checkers, and clerks
|
80
|
74
|
-7
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