Accounting
Average Annual Salary: $55,100
Hourly Wage Range: $20.55-$30.48
Potential Jobs: Accountants and Auditors; Budget Analysts; Bookkeeping, Accounting and Auditing Clerks; Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks
Agribusiness Services Technician
Average Annual Salary: $43,300
Hourly Wage Range: $16.50-$27.61
Potential Jobs: Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians
Agribusiness Production
Average Annual Salary: $69,800
Hourly Wage Range: $16.92-$27.61
Potential Jobs: Agricultural Inspectors; Animal Breeders; Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals; Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers; First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
Agribusiness Service & Management
Average Annual Salary: $69,800
Hourly Wage Range: $16.92-$27.61
Potential Jobs: Agricultural Inspectors; Animal Breeders; Farmers, Ranchers, and Other Agricultural Managers; Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals; First-Line Supervisors of Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Workers
Architectural Drafting
Average Annual Salary: $53,300
Hourly Wage Range: $21.27-$29.19
Potential Jobs: Architectural and Civil Drafters
Auto Body & Collision Technology
Average Annual Salary: $51,300
Hourly Wage Range: $17.41-$28.39
Potential Jobs: Automotive Body and Related Repairers; Insurance Appraisers, Auto Damage; Painters, Transportation Equipment
Automotive Service
Average Annual Salary: $42,600
Hourly Wage Range: $15.40-$24.56
Potential Jobs: Automotive Service Technicians and Mechanics; Electronic Equipment Installer and Repairers, Motor Vehicles
Business Management
Average Annual Salary: $37,400
Hourly Wage Range: $13.80-$20.41
Potential Jobs: Bookkeeping, Accounting and Auditing Clerks; First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers; Human Resources Assistant, Except Payroll and Timekeeping; Retail Salespeoples
Carpentry
Average Annual Salary: $57,500
Hourly Wage Range: $21.86-$33.86
Potential Jobs: Carpenters; First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
Early Childhood Education
Average Annual Salary: $27,900
Hourly Wage Range: $10.91-$15.50
Potential Jobs: Childcare Workers; Preschool Teachers, Except Special Education
Civil Engineering Technology
Average Annual Salary: $53,300
Hourly Wage Range: $21.27-$29.19
Potential Jobs: Architectural and Civil Drafters
Computer Careers
Average Annual Salary: $84,800
Hourly Wage Range: $31.02-49.28
Potential Jobs: Computer Network Support Specialists; Computer Systems Analysts; Computer User Support Specialists; Information Security Analysts; Software Developers, Applications; Software Developers, Systems Software; Web Developers
Culinary Arts
Average Annual Salary: $30,700
Hourly Wage Range: $11.94-$16.97
Potential Jobs: Chefs and Head Cooks; Cooks, Fast Food; Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria; Cooks, Private Household; Cooks, Restaurant; Cooks, Short Order; First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers
Dental Assisting
Average Annual Salary: $48,800
Hourly Wage Range: $20.42-$26.63
Potential Jobs: Dental Assisting
Emergency Medical Technician
Average Annual Salary: $40,600
Hourly Wage Range: $14.62-$23.51
Potential Jobs: Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics
Family Services
Average Annual Salary: $38,700
Hourly Wage Range: $13.63-$21.91
Potential Jobs: Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other; Social and Human Service Assistants
Geographic Information Systems
Average Annual Salary: $55,300
Hourly Wage Range: $21.93-$31.30
Potential Jobs: Cartographers and Photogrammetrists; Surveying and Mapping Technicians
Graphic Communications
Average Annual Salary: $48,000
Hourly Wage Range: $16.87-$28.06
Potential Jobs: Graphic Designers; Prepress Technician and Workers; Printing Press Operators
Health Unit Coordinator
Average Annual Salary: $35,400
Hourly Wage Range: $13.66-$20.08
Potential Jobs: Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks; Medical Records and Health Information Technicians; Receptionists and Information Clerks
Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning, Refrigeration
Average Annual Salary: $55,200
Hourly Wage Range: $19.37-$32.15
Potential Jobs: Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and Installers
Intensive Care Paramedic Technician
Average Annual Salary: $40,600
Hourly Wage Range: $14.62-$23.51
Potential Jobs: Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics
Machine Tool Technology
Average Annual Salary: $49,900
Hourly Wage Range: $18.84-$28.26
Potential Jobs: Computer Numerically Controlled Machine Tool Programmers; Metal and Plastic Machinists
Marketing Management
Average Annual Salary: $51,600
Hourly Wage Range: $16.10-$29.12
Potential Jobs: Advertising Sales Agents; Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers; Sales Representative, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products; Stock Clerks and Order Fillers
Mechatronics
Average Annual Salary: $56,500
Hourly Wage Range: $21.96-$32.17
Potential Jobs: Electro-Mechanical Technicians
Medical Assistant
Average Annual Salary: $39,100
Hourly Wage Range: $16.44-$21.57
Potential Jobs: Medical Assistants
Medical Laboratory Technician
Average Annual Salary: $56,800
Hourly Wage Range: $21.29-$32.85
Potential Jobs: Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
Multimedia Technology
Average Annual Salary: $58,000
Hourly Wage Range: $21.78-$32.92
Potential Jobs: Multimedia Artists and Animators
Phlebotomy
Average Annual Salary: $37,700
Hourly Wage Range: $15.36-$20.73
Potential Jobs: Phlebotomists
Nursing Assistant (CNA)
Average Annual Salary: $30,600
Hourly Wage Range: $12.67-$16.62
Potential Jobs: Home Health Aides; Nursing Assistants
Practical Nursing (LPN)
Average Annual Salary: $45,400
Hourly Wage Range: $19.51-$24.23
Potential Jobs: Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
Professional Nursing (RN)
Average Annual Salary: $77,500
Hourly Wage Range: $30.73-$44.46
Potential Jobs: Registered Nurses
Office Administration & Technology
Average Annual Salary: $39,000
Hourly Wage Range: $14.41-$22.49
Potential Jobs: Customer Service Representatives; Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants; Legal Secretaries; Legal Support Workers, All Other; Office Clerks, General; Receptionists and Information Clerks; Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
Welding
Average Annual Salary: $44,300
Hourly Wage Range: $17.33-$24.40
Potential Jobs: Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers; Welding, Soldering, and Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders
Source: JobsEQ
1. Occupation wages are as of 2017
2. Occupational Outlook data as of 2018Q1 unless noted otherwise