Aircraft structure, surfaces, rigging, and systems assemblers
Audiovisual equipment installers and repairers
Automotive body and related repairers
Automotive glass installers and repairers
Automotive service technicians and mechanics
Avionics technicians
Boilermakers
Brickmasons, blockmasons, and stonemasons
Bus and truck mechanics and diesel engine specialists
Cabinetmakers and bench carpenters
Carpenters
Carpet, floor, and tile installers and finishers
Cement masons, concrete finishers, and terrazzo workers
Chemical processing machine setters, operators, and tenders
Coin, vending, and amusement machine servicers and repairers
Commercial divers
Computer numerically controlled tool operators and programmers
Computer, automated teller, and office machine repairers
Construction and building inspectors
Construction equipment operators
Control and valve installers and repairers
Conveyor, dredge, and hoist and winch operators
Crane and tower operators
Crushing, grinding, polishing, mixing, and blending workers
Cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Dental and ophthalmic laboratory technicians and medical appliance technicians
Derrick, rotary drill, and service unit operators, oil and gas
Drywall installers, ceiling tile installers, and tapers
Earth drillers, except oil and gas
Electric motor, power tool, and related repairers
Electrical and electronic engineering technologists and technicians
Electrical and electronics installers and repairers, transportation equipment
Electrical and electronics repairers, industrial and utility
Electrical power-line installers and repairers
Electrical, electronics, and electromechanical assemblers
Electricians
Electronic equipment installers and repairers, motor vehicles
Elevator and escalator installers and repairers
Engine and other machine assemblers
Etchers and engravers
Excavating and loading machine and dragline operators, surface mining
Explosives workers, ordnance handling experts, and blasters
Extruding, forming, pressing, and compacting machine setters, operators, and tenders
Fence erectors
First-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers
First-line supervisors of mechanics, installers, and repairers
First-line supervisors of production and operating workers
Forming machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Furnace, kiln, oven, drier, and kettle operators and tenders
Furniture finishers
Glaziers
Grinding, lapping, polishing, and buffing machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Hazardous materials removal workers
Heating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers
Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment service technicians and mechanics
Helpers--installation, maintenance, and repair workers
Highway maintenance workers
Home appliance repairers
Industrial and refractory machinery mechanics
Industrial truck and tractor operators
Inspectors, testers, sorters, samplers, and weighers
Insulation workers
Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers
Locksmiths and safe repairers
Locomotive engineers and operators
Machinists
Maintenance and repair workers, general
Maintenance workers, machinery
Manufactured building and mobile home installers
Metal furnace operators, tenders, pourers, and casters
Millwrights
Miscellaneous construction and related workers
Miscellaneous plant and system operators
Miscellaneous vehicle and mobile equipment mechanics, installers, and repairers
Model makers and patternmakers, metal and plastic
Molders and molding machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Molders, shapers, and casters, except metal and plastic
Other assemblers and fabricators
Other engineering technologists and technicians, except drafters
Other extraction workers
Other installation, maintenance, and repair workers
Other machine tool setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic
Other metal workers and plastic workers
Other rail transportation workers
Other woodworkers
Painters and paperhangers
Painting workers
Pipelayers
Plasterers and stucco masons
Plumbers, pipefitters, and steamfitters
Power plant operators, distributors, and dispatchers
Precision instrument and equipment repairers
Prepress technicians and workers
Printing press operators
Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers
Rail-track laying and maintenance equipment operators
Railroad conductors and yardmasters
Reinforcing iron and rebar workers
Riggers
Roofers
Roustabouts, oil and gas
Sailors and marine oilers
Sawing machine setters, operators, and tenders, wood
Security and fire alarm systems installers
Septic tank servicers and sewer pipe cleaners
Sheet metal workers
Ship and boat captains and operators
Ship engineers
Small engine mechanics
Solar photovoltaic installers
Stationary engineers and boiler operators
Structural iron and steel workers
Structural metal fabricators and fitters
Telecommunications line installers and repairers
Tire builders
Tool and die makers
Transportation inspectors
Underground mining machine operators
Water and wastewater treatment plant and system operators
Welding, soldering, and brazing workers
Wind turbine service technicians
Woodworking machine setters, operators, and tenders, except sawing
United States
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Alabama
Arkansas
Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
District of Columbia
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Iowa
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Massachusetts
Maryland
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Missouri
Mississippi
Montana
North Carolina
North Dakota
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
Nevada
New York
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Vermont
Washington
Wisconsin
West Virginia
Wyoming
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Projected change
Every state, for all trades
Projected employment change: by trade nationally from BLS Employment Projections, 2025 to 2035; by state, and by trade within a state, from the state long-term projection round, 2024 to 2034. The forward-looking companion to the growth ranking.