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145–192 of 1,000 careers
Employee references are annual US median wages for the cited BLS occupation, which may cover several career paths. Freelance examples add $15,000 for benefits and $20,000 for business costs, then divide by 1,200 billable hours a year. Annual figures are rounded to the nearest $1,000 and hourly figures to the nearest dollar. Figures are before personal taxes, with no percentage fees. Open a guide to see the source or adjust the assumptions in the calculator.
BLS · May 2025 · Information Security Analysts
Evaluate cloud configurations and access practices against defined security requirements. Help teams prioritize verifiable improvements while preserving ownership of production changes, incident response, and security authorization decisions.
View career → Cloud Security EngineerBLS · May 2025 · Mechanical Engineers
Plan machining workflows from approved component requirements and manufacturing constraints. Coordinate setup assumptions, tooling evidence, inspection needs, and qualified reviews without treating a planning document as permission to operate equipment.
View career → CNC Process PlannerBLS · May 2025 · Training and development specialists
Helps co-parents organize practical communication and expectations within their existing arrangements, keeping child welfare, consent, and professional legal or clinical boundaries explicit.
View career → Co-parenting communication coachBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Coordinates temperature-controlled shipments around approved product requirements, transport capacity, handover records, and qualified quality review when operational conditions or evidence change.
View career → Cold chain logistics coordinatorBLS · May 2025 · Food Scientists and Technologists
Review temperature-control evidence across food storage and transport. Evaluate monitoring gaps, equipment records, and excursion investigations while reserving product disposition decisions for appropriately authorized food safety personnel.
View career → Cold Chain Quality SpecialistBLS · May 2025 · Mechanical Engineers
Assess whether a collaborative-robot concept suits a defined manufacturing task. Connect workflow evidence and integration requirements while recognizing that collaboration claims do not remove the need for qualified machinery safety assessment.
View career → Collaborative Robot Applications EngineerBLS · May 2025 · Software Developers
Connect commerce systems through documented data mappings, error handling, and reconciliation checks so product, order, or stock information moves reliably between defined endpoints.
View career → Commerce integration consultantBLS · May 2025 · Food Scientists and Technologists
Study ingredient and process interactions in bakery products through controlled development work. Connect structure, sensory outcomes, and production consistency while recording the evidence needed for commercial validation.
View career → Commercial Bakery Research ScientistBLS · May 2025 · Real Estate Sales Agents
Supports commercial space leasing through needs discovery, property comparisons, and transaction coordination within appropriate licensing and professional boundaries.
View career → Commercial leasing consultantBLS · May 2025 · Property, Real Estate, and Community Association Managers
Coordinates association administration, owner communication, service vendors, and board follow-through within governing arrangements, approved authority, and applicable professional requirements.
View career → Community association managerBLS · May 2025 · Public relations specialists
Turn member questions and contributions into useful recurring material that reflects the community's purpose and participation norms.
View career → Community content producerBLS · May 2025 · Dietitians and Nutritionists
Designs or delivers credentialed nutrition services in community settings, accounting for access, food environments, cultural context, and the resources available to participants.
View career → Community dietitianBLS · May 2025 · Public relations specialists
Organize accessible opportunities for community participation while documenting who was heard, what feedback means, and how decisions remain with the responsible organization.
View career → Community engagement officerBLS · May 2025 · Public relations specialists
A community manager helps people participate in a shared space with a clear purpose. The work builds useful conversations, welcomes members, and applies consistent moderation so the community can remain constructive.
View career → Community managerBLS · May 2025 · Public relations specialists
Organize relationships and joint activities between public-interest organizations so expectations, service handoffs, communications, and responsibilities remain clear to everyone participating.
View career → Community partnerships coordinatorBLS · May 2025 · Software Developers
Develop software that translates or optimizes programs for defined languages and targets. Use correctness tests, diagnostics, and performance evidence to balance useful transformations with predictable behavior and maintainable tooling.
View career → Compiler EngineerBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Turns approved compliance requirements into evidence reviews, control checks, and documented exceptions, helping responsible teams see gaps without claiming that a checklist proves compliance.
View career → Compliance analystBLS · May 2025 · Biological Scientists, All Other
Use mathematical and computational models to investigate biological systems. Compare model assumptions with available evidence and explain which predictions remain uncertain or unsuitable for clinical or operational use.
View career → Computational BiologistBLS · May 2025 · Electrical Engineers
Combine image formation models and numerical methods to recover useful information from measurements. Evaluate reconstruction quality against realistic noise and calibration errors rather than attractive example images alone.
View career → Computational Imaging EngineerBLS · May 2025 · Physicists
Develop numerical methods to study physical systems that are difficult to analyze directly. Evaluate approximation error, numerical stability, and validation evidence before interpreting an attractive simulation.
View career → Computational PhysicistBLS · May 2025 · Computer and Information Research Scientists
Investigate computer-vision methods through reproducible software and carefully evaluated image evidence. Examine dataset limits, labeling choices, and model failures before connecting research results to a real-world product claim.
View career → Computer Vision Research EngineerBLS · May 2025 · Music Directors and Composers
Create original works for defined performers or ensembles while translating musical ideas into clear scores, practical parts, and a realistic revision process.
View career → Concert music composerBLS · May 2025 · Physicists
Investigate collective behavior in solids and related systems. Connect physical models with reproducible measurements while distinguishing evidence of a phenomenon from claims about a practical device.
View career → Condensed Matter PhysicistBLS · May 2025 · Project management specialists
Coordinate a conference's program, speaker requirements, production dependencies, and delivery schedule so the event has clear ownership of both content and operational decisions.
View career → Conference producerBLS · May 2025 · Training and development specialists
Helps individuals prepare for difficult interactions by examining perspectives, goals, and communication choices, with clear boundaries around mediation, legal disputes, and clinical concerns.
View career → Conflict resolution coachBLS · May 2025 · Project management specialists
Coordinates conservation work across partners, schedules, budgets, permissions, and scientific responsibilities while ensuring local knowledge and qualified ecological decisions shape implementation.
View career → Conservation project managerBLS · May 2025 · Computer systems analysts
Review accessibility evidence for construction and building-use questions within a defined jurisdiction. Connect user needs, design records, and qualified reviews without presenting informal observations as legal compliance certification.
View career → Construction Accessibility ConsultantBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Organize construction contract obligations and change evidence for authorized project teams. Connect deliverables, review records, and commercial questions while reserving legal interpretations, claim determinations, and contractual decisions for qualified advisers.
View career → Construction Contracts AnalystBLS · May 2025 · Cost Estimators
Prepare construction cost estimates from documented scope, quantities, and market assumptions. Explain uncertainty and exclusions so a preliminary budget is not mistaken for a contractor commitment or guaranteed final project cost.
View career → Construction Cost EstimatorBLS · May 2025 · Technical writers
Maintain construction project records so teams can find current drawings and trace decisions. Organize review status, revisions, and distribution without assuming document control grants authority to approve technical content.
View career → Construction Document ControllerBLS · May 2025 · Surveyors
Prepare geospatial evidence for construction planning and coordination. Maintain coordinate, source, and accuracy information so maps support appropriate decisions without being mistaken for licensed survey or engineering documentation.
View career → Construction Geospatial AnalystBLS · May 2025 · Project management specialists
Organize the records and readiness checks needed for a construction handover. Track manuals, training, inspections, and unresolved issues while preserving designated responsibility for occupancy, technical acceptance, and ongoing maintenance decisions.
View career → Construction Handover CoordinatorBLS · May 2025 · Logisticians
Plan material and access logistics for construction projects using approved site constraints. Compare delivery, storage, and sequencing options while preserving qualified responsibility for traffic management, lifting operations, and site safety.
View career → Construction Logistics PlannerBLS · May 2025 · Construction Managers
Develop construction planning evidence that connects activities, resources, and approved dependencies. Explain schedule uncertainty and constraints rather than presenting a calculated completion date as a promise independent of site conditions.
View career → Construction Planning SpecialistBLS · May 2025 · Buyers and purchasing agents
Compare construction purchasing options using specifications, quantities, supplier evidence, and schedule constraints. Track technical substitution questions and commercial assumptions while leaving contract awards and design approvals with authorized decision-makers.
View career → Construction Procurement AnalystBLS · May 2025 · Construction Managers
Coordinate construction schedules, budgets, and communication across authorized project teams. Keep dependencies and changes visible while maintaining clear responsibility for licensed design, site safety, contractual decisions, and formal project acceptance.
View career → Construction Project ManagerBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Help project teams evaluate construction uncertainties using explicit assumptions and available evidence. Compare schedule, cost, and delivery risks while leaving contractual, engineering, financial, and site-safety decisions with qualified owners.
View career → Construction Risk AnalystBLS · May 2025 · Training and development specialists
Helps contact-center staff improve service conversations through quality reviews, practice, and actionable feedback grounded in approved information, privacy, and fair performance evaluation.
View career → Contact center quality coachBLS · May 2025 · Film and video editors
Adapt existing material into new formats while preserving its meaning, evidence, and the context needed by each audience.
View career → Content repurposing specialistBLS · May 2025 · Editors
A content strategist decides what information an organization should create, maintain, and retire. The work connects audience needs, business priorities, and editorial operations so content remains useful beyond its initial publication.
View career → Content strategistBLS · May 2025 · Writers and authors
A content writer creates useful articles, guides, and other material around audience questions. The value comes from original research, clear explanations, and trustworthy detail that helps readers make informed decisions.
View career → Content writerBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Reviews contract information against approved playbooks, identifies missing details or deviations, and prepares structured questions for the people authorized to interpret and approve terms.
View career → Contract analystBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Coordinates contract workflows, obligations, renewals, and approvals so operational teams can track agreed responsibilities without treating administrative records as a substitute for legal review.
View career → Contract managerBLS · May 2025 · Writers and authors
Structure text-based interactions so users understand the available choices, system limitations, and ways to recover from misunderstanding.
View career → Conversation designerBLS · May 2025 · Market research analysts
A conversion rate optimization specialist investigates why visitors struggle to complete valuable actions. The work combines behavior research, measurement checks, and experiments to improve a journey while respecting the quality of evidence.
View career → Conversion rate optimization specialistBLS · May 2025 · Training and development specialists
Teaches practical cooking methods through clear demonstrations, supervised participation, and adaptable learning activities suited to the kitchen, audience, ingredients, and available equipment.
View career → Cooking class instructorBLS · May 2025 · Management analysts
Supports member-owned organizations with governance processes, operating questions, and participatory planning, recognizing how shared ownership changes decision making and practical accountability.
View career → Cooperative business adviserBLS · May 2025 · Editors
Check written material for grammar, consistency, clarity, and adherence to an agreed style while preserving intended meaning and identifying unresolved author questions.
View career → Copyeditor