Note: Wage data cover non-farm wage and salary workers and do not cover the self-employed, owners and partners in unincorporated firms, or household workers.
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Nuclear Power reactor operators … disaster incoming.
ExpensiveBurn on
Timing Device Assemblers & Adjusters is projected to lose 0 jobs, or… 17% of the workforce? How does that math?
* Newer BLS data!
* This is a slightly different cut of the data; sorted by percent change in each occupation’s employment instead of total change
Some of the jobs on this list might not surprise folks (we still have telephone operators?), but a few (nuclear power reactor operators, ESL teachers) stood out to me.
Luckily, the BLS is still forecasting the demise of telemarketers.
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So Customer Service, office/administration, mining, fabrication, adult education and nuclear maintenance is the first to go. Sounds a little bit concerning, but at least those pesky telemarketers will be replaced by ai bots that calls you around the clock.
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Source: [Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections program,](https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/fastest-declining-occupations.htm)
Tools: Datawrapper, Illustrator
Note: Wage data cover non-farm wage and salary workers and do not cover the self-employed, owners and partners in unincorporated firms, or household workers.
Nuclear Power reactor operators … disaster incoming.
Timing Device Assemblers & Adjusters is projected to lose 0 jobs, or… 17% of the workforce? How does that math?
This is a slightly different version of a [chart](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1l2g3vu/oc_projected_job_loss_in_the_us/) I posted earlier this year with a couple of changes
* Newer BLS data!
* This is a slightly different cut of the data; sorted by percent change in each occupation’s employment instead of total change
Some of the jobs on this list might not surprise folks (we still have telephone operators?), but a few (nuclear power reactor operators, ESL teachers) stood out to me.
Luckily, the BLS is still forecasting the demise of telemarketers.
So Customer Service, office/administration, mining, fabrication, adult education and nuclear maintenance is the first to go. Sounds a little bit concerning, but at least those pesky telemarketers will be replaced by ai bots that calls you around the clock.