Compare careers
Factual side-by-side attributes from the imported O*NET and BLS OEWS datasets. No career is ranked or recommended.
Career A (or your current career)
Occupational Therapy Assistants
Career B (or your target career)
Emergency Medicine Physicians
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Comparison table
| Metric | Occupational Therapy Assistants | Emergency Medicine Physicians |
|---|---|---|
| National median salary | $72,300 | $335,550 |
| Local median salary | Not published | Not published |
| National employment | 51,290 | 32,880 |
| Typical education | Associate's Degree or other 2-year degree | Post-Doctoral Training |
| Job zone | 3 | 5 |
| Important skills | Active Listening, Speaking, Service Orientation, Social Perceptiveness, Reading Comprehension | Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, Social Perceptiveness, Speaking |
| Related careers | Emergency Medicine Physicians, Advanced Practice Psychiatric Nurses, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians, Nurse Practitioners | Critical Care Nurses, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Neurologists, Registered Nurses |
Career transition: skill overlap
Skill overlap
80%
16 of 20 target skills
Target-only skills
4
Current-only skills
0
Skill overlap compares O*NET skills rated at importance 3.0 or above for each occupation. It is a measure of listed skill overlap, not a probability of getting the job.
Shared skills
- Critical Thinking+1.4 level
- Active Listening+0.7 level
- Social Perceptiveness+0.9 level
- Speaking+0.8 level
- Reading Comprehension+1.2 level
- Judgment and Decision Making+1.5 level
- Writing+0.7 level
- Monitoring+1.1 level
- Service Orientation+1.0 level
- Complex Problem Solving+1.4 level
- Coordination+1.0 level
- Active Learning+1.1 level
- Learning Strategies+0.8 level
- Instructing+0.9 level
- Systems Analysis+0.6 level
- Time Management+0.2 level
Only in Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Persuasion
- Negotiation
- Systems Evaluation
- Science
Only in Occupational Therapy Assistants
- None