A Map of 867 Occupations: teacher key

Jobs and Careers, grade 9 edition, written for 9th grade. The US government sorts every worker into one of 867 occupations. Here is how jobs are grouped, how people train for them, what medians say about pay and which jobs are growing or shrinking.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What does the median wage in a BLS profile mean?
   • The pay a brand-new worker gets at the start
   • The pay that every worker in the job gets
   • Half earned more and half earned less (answer)
2. What does a Registered Apprenticeship give the apprentice?
   • A paid job, training, classes and a credential (answer)
   • Classroom lessons only, with no paid work or credential
   • A state license handed out with no training at all
3. Why can a job that is declining still have many openings?
   • The job always grows again the next year
   • Some workers move on or leave to retire (answer)
   • BLS counts every single opening two times
4. Why does BLS use a household survey to count the unemployed?
   • Some jobless people never apply for benefits (answer)
   • Insurance claims already count every jobless person
   • A survey costs more than a full census count
5. In the chart of earnings by education, what is left out?
   • Workers with a doctoral degree or higher
   • Workers with a high school diploma only
   • Apprenticeships and on-the-job training (answer)
6. What does a fast-growing job not always add?
   • A higher median wage
   • Lots of new jobs (answer)
   • A required license

Words

• apprenticeship: learning by working
• median: middle value
• license: official permission
• occupation: kind of job
• credential: proof of skill
• residency: hospital training