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)
Order Clerks
Career B (or your target career)
First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
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Comparison table
| Metric | Order Clerks | First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers |
|---|---|---|
| National median salary | $46,170 | $87,520 |
| Local median salary | Not published | Not published |
| National employment | 75,200 | 214,390 |
| Typical education | High School Diploma or the equivalent (such as a GED) | Bachelor's Degree |
| Job zone | 2 | 4 |
| Important skills | Active Listening, Speaking, Reading Comprehension, Service Orientation, Monitoring | Monitoring, Active Listening, Management of Personnel Resources, Speaking, Coordination |
| Related careers | Correspondence Clerks, First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers, Purchasing Managers, Driver/Sales Workers | Sales Managers, Human Resources Specialists, First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers, Management Analysts |
Career transition: skill overlap
Skill overlap
62%
13 of 21 target skills
Target-only skills
8
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
- Monitoring+1.3 level
- Speaking+0.5 level
- Active Listening+0.4 level
- Judgment and Decision Making+1.1 level
- Social Perceptiveness+1.0 level
- Coordination+1.0 level
- Persuasion+0.9 level
- Reading Comprehension+0.6 level
- Writing+1.0 level
- Critical Thinking+0.4 level
- Active Learning+0.6 level
- Service Orientation—
- Mathematics+0.3 level
Only in First-Line Supervisors of Non-Retail Sales Workers
- Management of Personnel Resources
- Time Management
- Negotiation
- Complex Problem Solving
- Instructing
- Learning Strategies
- Systems Analysis
- Systems Evaluation
Only in Order Clerks
- None