Management of Material Resources Skills and Careers

Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work.

910 occupations report this skill · Category: Transferable Skills · O*NET element 2.B.5.c

Occupations reporting Management of Material Resources

Importance and level are O*NET scale values. Ordered by reported importance. A skill rating does not indicate hiring outcomes.

Occupation	Importance	Level	National median wage
Home Appliance Repairers	2.1	1.8	$50,990
Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education	2.1	1.8	$72,040
Web and Digital Interface Designers	2.1	1.8	$104,000
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers	2.1	2.3	$79,920
Atmospheric, Earth, Marine, and Space Sciences Teachers, Postsecondary	2.1	2.1	$103,170
Career/Technical Education Teachers, Secondary School	2.1	2.0	$66,270
Freight Forwarders	2.1	2.0	$52,260
Industrial-Organizational Psychologists	2.1	2.1	$193,950
Radiation Therapists	2.1	1.4	$105,310
Environmental Economists	2.1	2.1	$124,720
Parts Salespersons	2.1	1.6	$38,630
Counter and Rental Clerks	2.1	1.9	$41,300
Industrial Ecologists	2.1	2.1	$82,220
Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health	2.1	2.1	$82,220
Materials Scientists	2.1	2.1	$117,790
Physicists	2.1	2.1	$172,250
Optometrists	2.1	2.1	$136,570
First-Line Supervisors of Personal Service Workers	2.1	2.0	$48,590
Geneticists	2.1	2.1	$98,920
Pest Control Workers	2.1	2.0	$45,250
Microbiologists	2.1	2.1	$87,990
Prosthodontists	2.1	2.1	$311,180
Photonics Technicians	2.1	1.8	$78,350
Occupational Therapists	2.1	2.0	$100,330
Cargo and Freight Agents	2.1	1.4	$52,260
Music Directors and Composers	2.1	1.5	$73,710
Automotive Engineering Technicians	2.1	2.0	$74,510
Special Education Teachers, Elementary School	2.1	1.4	—
Education Teachers, Postsecondary	2.1	1.9	$75,350
Health Education Specialists	2.1	2.1	$64,070
Fire Inspectors and Investigators	2.1	2.0	$75,920
Electrical and Electronic Engineering Technologists and Technicians	2.1	1.8	$78,190
Civil Engineering Technologists and Technicians	2.1	2.0	$64,950
Accountants and Auditors	2.1	2.1	$83,680
Aerospace Engineering and Operations Technologists and Technicians	2.1	1.6	$82,890
Medical Assistants	2.1	1.4	$45,690
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers	2.1	1.1	$76,210
Robotics Engineers	2.1	2.3	$122,930
Surgical Assistants	2.1	1.8	$66,800
Nuclear Engineers	2.1	2.1	$133,970
Home Health Aides	2.1	1.4	—
Water Resource Specialists	2.1	2.6	$167,220
Dental Assistants	2.1	1.9	$48,070
Histology Technicians	2.1	1.6	—
Fundraisers	2.1	2.3	$72,550
Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters	2.1	1.9	$61,390
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists	2.1	1.8	$95,480
Water/Wastewater Engineers	2.1	2.8	$100,840
Remote Sensing Technicians	2.1	1.9	$62,280
Histotechnologists	2.1	1.8	—

Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.