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title: "Career Directory"
description: "Explore 923 U.S. occupations with BLS wages, projections and O*NET skill data."
canonical: "https://nuecareer.com/careers"
last-updated: "2026-08-23T15:56:39.581Z"
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# Career Directory

NueCareer's career directory covers 923 U.S. occupations. Every wage, employment and projection figure comes from a federal source — O\*NET for the descriptive content, BLS OEWS for wages, BLS Employment Projections for outlook, the Occupational Outlook Handbook for narrative and BEA Regional Price Parities for the cost-of-living adjustment. Facet flags, AI-resilience scores and personality-fit scores are derived by NueCareer from O\*NET ratings and are labelled as such wherever they appear.

Each occupation has a page at https://nuecareer.com/careers/{slug}. How every derived figure is computed is documented at https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology.

## Dataset vintages

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 30.3 Database, May 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **O\*NET** — O\*NET-SOC 2019 → SOC 2018 Crosswalk, 2019. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS OEWS National, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS OEWS State, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, occupational tables, 2024–2034. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2024–2034 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

## Coverage

- 923 occupations in total.
- 917 carry BLS OEWS wage estimates.
- 919 carry BLS Employment Projections figures.
- 673 carry Occupational Outlook Handbook narrative.
- 904 carry cost-of-living-adjusted state wages derived from BEA Regional Price Parities.

## Highest-paying occupations

- [Pediatric Surgeon](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pediatric-surgeon) — $559,030 median
- [Cardiologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/cardiologist) — $496,010 median
- [Radiologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/radiologist) — $420,860 median
- [Anesthesiologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/anesthesiologist) — $391,490 median
- [Orthopedic Surgeon, Except Pediatric](https://nuecareer.com/careers/orthopedic-surgeon) — $358,550 median
- [Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon](https://nuecareer.com/careers/oral-and-maxillofacial-surgeon) — $352,220 median
- [Emergency Medicine Physician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/emergency-medicine-physician) — $335,550 median
- [Dermatologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dermatologist) — $328,730 median
- [Pathologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/pathologist) — $312,400 median
- [Prosthodontist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/prosthodontist) — $311,180 median
- [Ophthalmologist, Except Pediatric](https://nuecareer.com/careers/ophthalmologist) — $300,080 median
- [Obstetrician and Gynecologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/obstetrician-and-gynecologist) — $292,910 median
- [Orthodontist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/orthodontist) — $289,140 median
- [Psychiatrist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/psychiatrist) — $281,870 median
- [Allergist and Immunologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/allergist-and-immunologist) — $265,930 median

## Fastest-growing occupations

Projected employment change over the 2024–2034 cycle.

- [Wind Turbine Service Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/wind-turbine-service-technician) — +49.9%
- [Solar Photovoltaic Installer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/solar-photovoltaic-installer) — +42.1%
- [Nurse Practitioner](https://nuecareer.com/careers/nurse-practitioner) — +40.1%
- [Data Scientist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/data-scientist) — +33.5%
- [Business Intelligence Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/business-intelligence-analyst) — +33.5%
- [Clinical Data Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/clinical-data-manager) — +33.5%
- [Information Security Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/information-security-analyst) — +28.5%
- [Medical and Health Services Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/medical-and-health-services-manager) — +23.2%
- [Physical Therapist Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physical-therapist-assistant) — +22.0%
- [Actuary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/actuary) — +21.8%
- [Operations Research Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/operations-research-analyst) — +21.5%
- [Physician Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/physician-assistant) — +20.4%
- [Anesthesiologist Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/anesthesiologist-assistant) — +20.4%
- [Psychiatric Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/psychiatric-technician) — +20.0%
- [Ophthalmic Medical Technician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/ophthalmic-medical-technician) — +19.8%

## Collections

Curated shortlists, each ranked by the criterion in its description.

- [Highest-Paying Jobs](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-jobs) — Every occupation in the bank ranked by national median annual wage, with projected growth, annual openings and typical entry requirement beside each one. The BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, which is what usually ranks for this question, reports physician pay as a median "equal to or greater than $239,200 per year" and says the differences in pay between physician specialties are not available. That ceiling is a publication rule rather than a measurement: OEWS withholds any wage at or above $239,200 a year and prints "#" in its place. In the OEWS May 2025 national file no wage field is withheld, so this list gives the exact median BLS measured for each occupation, including the specialties the Handbook folds into "$239,200 or more". The ceiling still applies to 86 state wage rows across 19 occupations, which are shown as "$239,200+" on the salary-by-state pages and are never used to rank anything here. (30 occupations)
- [Jobs That Pay $100k a Year](https://nuecareer.com/careers/jobs-that-pay-100k) — Occupations whose national median annual wage is $100,000 or more, ranked by projected annual openings rather than by pay, so the list answers which six-figure jobs actually hire in volume instead of repeating the top of the highest-paying list. A six-figure median is a stronger claim than a six-figure ceiling: it means half the people already in the occupation earn more than that. (30 occupations)
- [Jobs That Pay $20 an Hour](https://nuecareer.com/careers/jobs-that-pay-20-an-hour) — Occupations whose BLS median hourly wage is at least $20.00 and under $25.00, ranked by projected annual openings so the list leads with the work that exists in volume at this rate. The hourly figure is the one BLS publishes in the OEWS release, not an annual salary divided by 2,080; occupations OEWS reports on an annual basis only, which is most teaching and airline flight-crew work, carry no hourly wage to test and are left off rather than converted. The band has an upper end so that each rate gets its own list rather than four copies of the same one; jobs paying above $25 an hour are on the higher lists. (30 occupations)
- [Jobs That Pay $25 an Hour](https://nuecareer.com/careers/jobs-that-pay-25-an-hour) — Occupations whose BLS median hourly wage is at least $25.00 and under $30.00, ranked by projected annual openings so the list leads with the work that exists in volume at this rate. The hourly figure is the one BLS publishes in the OEWS release, not an annual salary divided by 2,080; occupations OEWS reports on an annual basis only, which is most teaching and airline flight-crew work, carry no hourly wage to test and are left off rather than converted. The band has an upper end so that each rate gets its own list rather than four copies of the same one; jobs paying above $30 an hour are on the higher lists. (30 occupations)
- [Jobs That Pay $30 an Hour](https://nuecareer.com/careers/jobs-that-pay-30-an-hour) — Occupations whose BLS median hourly wage is at least $30.00 and under $40.00, ranked by projected annual openings so the list leads with the work that exists in volume at this rate. The hourly figure is the one BLS publishes in the OEWS release, not an annual salary divided by 2,080; occupations OEWS reports on an annual basis only, which is most teaching and airline flight-crew work, carry no hourly wage to test and are left off rather than converted. The band has an upper end so that each rate gets its own list rather than four copies of the same one; jobs paying above $40 an hour are on the higher lists. (30 occupations)
- [Jobs That Pay $40 an Hour](https://nuecareer.com/careers/jobs-that-pay-40-an-hour) — Occupations whose BLS median hourly wage is at least $40.00 and under $50.00, ranked by projected annual openings so the list leads with the work that exists in volume at this rate. The hourly figure is the one BLS publishes in the OEWS release, not an annual salary divided by 2,080; occupations OEWS reports on an annual basis only, which is most teaching and airline flight-crew work, carry no hourly wage to test and are left off rather than converted. The band has an upper end so that each rate gets its own list rather than four copies of the same one; jobs paying above $50 an hour are on the higher lists. (30 occupations)
- [Highest-Paying Jobs With an Associate's Degree](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-jobs-with-an-associate-degree) — Occupations whose typical education needed for entry, as recorded by BLS Employment Projections, is an associate's degree, ranked by national median annual wage. Occupations reached with a certificate or with a bachelor's degree are on their own lists. (30 occupations)
- [Highest-Paying Jobs Without a Degree](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-without-a-degree) — Occupations whose typical entry requirement is a high school diploma, postsecondary certificate, or less, ranked by national median wage. (30 occupations)
- [Highest-Paying Trades](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-trades) — Skilled construction, installation, repair, production and transport occupations entered without a bachelor’s degree, ranked by national median wage. (30 occupations)
- [Low-Stress Jobs That Pay Well](https://nuecareer.com/careers/low-stress-jobs-that-pay-well) — Occupations scoring low across O\*NET’s time-pressure, conflict and consequence-of-error measures that also pay at least 25% above the US median wage. (30 occupations)
- [Jobs That Help People](https://nuecareer.com/careers/jobs-that-help-people) — Occupations built around assisting and caring for others, ranked by projected annual openings so you can see where the need is greatest. (30 occupations)
- [Creative Careers That Pay Well](https://nuecareer.com/careers/creative-careers-that-pay-well) — Occupations with a strong Artistic interest profile or high creative-thinking demands that pay at least 25% above the US median wage. (23 occupations)
- [AI-Resistant Careers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/ai-resistant-careers) — Occupations whose work is hardest to automate, meaning hands-on, in-person, or judgement-heavy, scored by NueCareer’s AI-resilience analysis of O\*NET work-activity data. (30 occupations)
- [Fastest-Growing Careers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/fastest-growing-careers) — Occupations with the highest projected employment growth over the BLS 2024–2034 projection cycle. (30 occupations)
- [Remote-Friendly Careers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/remote-friendly-careers) — Desk-based occupations with high electronic communication and low physical or outdoor demands, the work-context profile that travels well to remote work. (30 occupations)
- [Careers Working With Animals](https://nuecareer.com/careers/careers-working-with-animals) — Occupations whose day-to-day work involves animals, wildlife, or livestock. (13 occupations)
- [Outdoor Careers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/outdoor-careers) — Occupations that spend most of the working day outdoors, exposed to weather or working under cover. (30 occupations)
- [Highest-Paying Jobs in Engineering](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-jobs-in-engineering) — Every occupation in the SOC architecture and engineering group, engineers, architects, surveyors, drafters and engineering technicians, ranked by national median wage. (30 occupations)
- [Highest-Paying Jobs in Healthcare](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-jobs-in-healthcare) — Every occupation in the two SOC groups that make up the medical field, healthcare practitioners and technical occupations, and healthcare support occupations, ranked by national median wage. (30 occupations)
- [Highest-Paying Jobs in Technology](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-jobs-in-technology) — Every occupation in the SOC computer and mathematical group, which is where BLS files tech roles from software developer to data scientist, ranked by national median wage. (21 occupations)
- [Highest-Paying Jobs in Finance](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-jobs-in-finance) — Financial managers, financial specialists, financial services sales agents and financial clerks, the SOC occupations that make up the finance function, ranked by national median wage. (24 occupations)
- [Highest-Paying Jobs in Business](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-jobs-in-business) — Every occupation in the SOC management and business-and-financial-operations groups, from chief executive to management analyst, ranked by national median wage. (30 occupations)
- [Highest-Paying Jobs in Construction](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-jobs-in-construction) — Every occupation in the SOC construction and extraction group, plus construction managers, ranked by national median wage. (30 occupations)
- [Highest-Paying Jobs in Sales](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-jobs-in-sales) — Every occupation in the SOC sales and related group, from sales engineer to cashier, ranked by national median wage. (21 occupations)
- [Highest-Paying Jobs in Psychology](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-jobs-in-psychology) — The occupations whose standard entry route is a psychology or counselling degree: the four BLS psychologist occupations, the postsecondary psychology teacher and the five counselling occupations, ranked by national median wage. Psychiatry (a medical degree) and social work (an MSW) are not counted. (10 occupations)
- [Highest-Paying Jobs With No Experience](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-jobs-with-no-experience) — Occupations BLS records as needing no prior work experience in a related occupation, no education beyond a high school diploma, and no more than short-term on-the-job training, ranked by national median wage. (30 occupations)
- [Highest-Paying Jobs That Only Need a Certification](https://nuecareer.com/careers/highest-paying-certification-jobs) — Occupations whose typical entry requirement is a postsecondary non-degree award, a certificate, licence or certification earned after high school but short of a degree, ranked by national median wage. (30 occupations)

## Career transitions

Destination occupations ranked by transferable-skill overlap with a source career, for people leaving a field rather than choosing a first one.

- [Jobs for Former Teachers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/jobs-for-former-teachers) — 30 ranked destinations
- [Alternative Careers for Nurses](https://nuecareer.com/careers/alternative-careers-for-nurses) — 30 ranked destinations
- [Jobs to Get Out of Retail](https://nuecareer.com/careers/jobs-to-get-out-of-retail) — 30 ranked destinations
- [Jobs After Customer Service](https://nuecareer.com/careers/jobs-after-customer-service) — 30 ranked destinations
- [Career Change From Food Service](https://nuecareer.com/careers/career-change-from-food-service) — 30 ranked destinations
- [Careers for Administrative Assistants](https://nuecareer.com/careers/careers-for-administrative-assistants) — 30 ranked destinations
- [Jobs for Veterans](https://nuecareer.com/careers/jobs-for-veterans) — 30 ranked destinations
- [Career Change From Accounting](https://nuecareer.com/careers/career-change-from-accounting) — 30 ranked destinations
- [Alternative Careers for Lawyers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/alternative-careers-for-lawyers) — 30 ranked destinations
- [Career Change From Social Work](https://nuecareer.com/careers/career-change-from-social-work) — 30 ranked destinations
- [Alternative Careers for Truck Drivers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/alternative-careers-for-truck-drivers) — 30 ranked destinations
- [Career Change From Marketing](https://nuecareer.com/careers/career-change-from-marketing) — 30 ranked destinations

## Occupation comparisons

Side-by-side comparisons of two distinct SOC occupations on BLS wage percentiles, projected employment change, annual openings, entry requirements and O\*NET work context. Built only where both sides are separate SOC occupations with separate OEWS wages, so no page compares one wage figure with itself.

- [LPN vs RN](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lpn-vs-rn) — LPN against RN, sourced side by side
- [NP vs PA](https://nuecareer.com/careers/np-vs-pa) — NP against PA, sourced side by side
- [NP vs RN](https://nuecareer.com/careers/np-vs-rn) — NP against RN, sourced side by side
- [CRNA vs Anesthesiologist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/crna-vs-anesthesiologist) — CRNA against Anesthesiologist, sourced side by side
- [Dental Hygienist vs Dental Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/dental-hygienist-vs-dental-assistant) — Dental hygienist against Dental assistant, sourced side by side
- [CNA vs Medical Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/cna-vs-medical-assistant) — CNA against Medical assistant, sourced side by side
- [LPN vs CNA](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lpn-vs-cna) — LPN against CNA, sourced side by side
- [Paralegal vs Legal Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/paralegal-vs-legal-assistant) — Paralegal against Legal assistant, sourced side by side
- [Vet Tech vs Vet Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/vet-tech-vs-vet-assistant) — Vet tech against Vet assistant, sourced side by side
- [Civil Engineer vs Mechanical Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/civil-engineer-vs-mechanical-engineer) — Civil engineer against Mechanical engineer, sourced side by side
- [Electrician vs Plumber](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrician-vs-plumber) — Electrician against Plumber, sourced side by side
- [Radiology Tech vs Ultrasound Tech](https://nuecareer.com/careers/radiology-tech-vs-ultrasound-tech) — Radiology tech against Ultrasound tech, sourced side by side
- [NP vs CRNA](https://nuecareer.com/careers/np-vs-crna) — NP against CRNA, sourced side by side
- [Registered Nurse vs Medical Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/registered-nurse-vs-medical-assistant) — RN against Medical assistant, sourced side by side
- [Paramedic vs RN](https://nuecareer.com/careers/paramedic-vs-rn) — Paramedic against RN, sourced side by side
- [LPN vs Medical Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lpn-vs-medical-assistant) — LPN against Medical assistant, sourced side by side

## Machine-readable access

Every page in this directory has a JSON representation, and the whole bank is searchable without an account or an API key.

- Service index: https://nuecareer.com/api/v1
- Search occupations: https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers — accepts `q`, `category`, `facet`, `min_salary`, `max_salary`, `min_growth`, `education`, `sort`, `limit` and `offset`.
- One occupation: https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/{slug}
- Collections: https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/collections and https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/collections/{slug}
- OpenAPI description: https://nuecareer.com/api/openapi.json

To find a specific occupation, search rather than paging: `GET https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers?q=electrician` matches titles and the O\*NET alternate titles people actually use in job ads.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology

JSON representation of this page: https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers