U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Employment Projections

Education and Training Data

BLS provides information about education and training requirements for hundreds of occupations. In the education and training system, each of the occupations for which the office publishes projections data is assigned separate categories for education, work experience, and on-the-job training. Occupations can be grouped in order to create estimates of the education and training needs for the labor force as a whole and estimates of the outlook for occupations with various types of education or training needs. In addition, educational attainment data for each occupation are presented to show the level of education achieved by current workers. Further detail is presented in:

Measures of Education and Training technical documentation
Education and Training definitions (PDF)
Education and Training classification system development
FAQs

Data Tables

Additional Resources

NEW Graphical presentation of the education and training outlook for occupations (PDF)
Occupational Employment, Training, and Wages Database

2010 employment size,
projected 2010-20 percent or numerical change in employment,
projected 2010-20 job openings due to growth and net or total replacement needs,
typical education and training requirements, and
opportunities for self-employment

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Last Modified Date: June 3, 2013