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)
Respiratory Therapists
Career B (or your target career)
Emergency Medicine Physicians
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Comparison table
| Metric | Respiratory Therapists | Emergency Medicine Physicians |
|---|---|---|
| National median salary | $82,280 | $335,550 |
| Local median salary | Not published | Not published |
| National employment | 139,790 | 32,880 |
| Typical education | Not recorded | Post-Doctoral Training |
| Job zone | 3 | 5 |
| Important skills | Monitoring, Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, Speaking | Critical Thinking, Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, Social Perceptiveness, Speaking |
| Related careers | Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians, Nurse Anesthetists, Orthopedic Surgeons, Except Pediatric, Clinical Nurse Specialists | Critical Care Nurses, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Neurologists, Registered Nurses |
Career transition: skill overlap
Skill overlap
85%
17 of 20 target skills
Target-only skills
3
Current-only skills
3
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+0.8 level
- Active Listening+0.6 level
- Social Perceptiveness+0.6 level
- Speaking+0.1 level
- Reading Comprehension+1.0 level
- Judgment and Decision Making+1.0 level
- Writing+0.7 level
- Monitoring+0.3 level
- Service Orientation+0.4 level
- Complex Problem Solving+1.1 level
- Coordination+1.0 level
- Active Learning+0.5 level
- Learning Strategies+0.9 level
- Instructing+0.9 level
- Persuasion+0.9 level
- Time Management+0.1 level
- Science—
Only in Emergency Medicine Physicians
- Negotiation
- Systems Analysis
- Systems Evaluation
Only in Respiratory Therapists
- Operations Monitoring
- Operation and Control
- Quality Control Analysis