Is your career field on the endangered list?
You will need Microsoft Excel to view the list or an excel compatible viewer.
The information in this list was taken from the Dept of Labor site that you can view by clicking here and you can do your own analysis by downloading the 2008 and the 2007 zip files.
If your career title is in RED, that means that there were less of your career field in 2008 then there were in 2007.
Now, I must caution you that I consider the data that they put out to be GARBAGE because they use a sampling methodology as does the IRS.
For instance, after all the computer jobs went offshore, I became a licensed realtor only to see the real estate market crash.
But one thing I do know is that there are about 1.2 million realtors in America.
Yet this report only shows there being 164,080 real estate agents and 51,390 real estate brokers in 2008.
Now that is a far cry from 1.2 million, isn’t it?
To be fair to them, they are having their budgets cut as you can read by clicking here
Scroll down to the Special Notices section
Due to budget constraints, Occupational Employment Statistics has reduced the sample size of the May 2008 panel by 20 percent. Because OES estimates are produced from three years of pooled data, this one-time sample reduction will affect estimates for May 2008, May 2009, and May 2010. This reduction is expected to decrease the number of published employment estimates by at least five percent, or about 25,000 estimates, and will decrease the accuracy of the remaining estimates. The number and quality of wage estimates are also expected to decline. These cutbacks are being implemented in response to a reduction in funding to the BLS that resulted from The 2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act enacted on December 26, 2007.
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