Technology Design Skills and Careers

Generating or adapting equipment and technology to serve user needs.

910 occupations report this skill · Category: Transferable Skills · O*NET element 2.B.3.b

Occupations reporting Technology Design

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

OccupationImportanceLevelNational median wage
Recycling and Reclamation Workers1.50.8$40,240
Models1.50.5$48,470
Human Resources Managers1.50.5$149,280
Word Processors and Typists1.50.5$49,280
Extruding and Forming Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Synthetic and Glass Fibers1.50.6$46,350
Lawyers1.50.5$159,670
Fishing and Hunting Workers1.50.8—
Pressers, Textile, Garment, and Related Materials1.50.5$35,060
Furniture Finishers1.50.8$44,540
Customs and Border Protection Officers1.50.5$76,210
Clergy1.50.6$60,810
Clinical Nurse Specialists1.50.5$97,550
Radiologists1.50.8$420,860
Shuttle Drivers and Chauffeurs1.50.6$37,290
Librarians and Media Collections Specialists1.50.6$68,270
Water and Wastewater Treatment Plant and System Operators1.50.5$60,020
Railroad Brake, Signal, and Switch Operators and Locomotive Firers1.50.5$68,840
Transit and Railroad Police1.50.6$90,230
Probation Officers and Correctional Treatment Specialists1.50.6$66,270
Marriage and Family Therapists1.50.5$66,940
Emergency Management Directors1.50.5$93,330
Signal and Track Switch Repairers1.50.6$92,460
Sailors and Marine Oilers1.50.5$51,520
Compensation and Benefits Managers1.50.6$149,230
Barbers1.50.5$38,210
Stockers and Order Fillers1.50.5$37,330
Mental Health Counselors1.50.5—
Ship Engineers1.50.6$109,530
Stationary Engineers and Boiler Operators1.50.5$78,620
Riggers1.50.6$62,640
Anthropologists and Archeologists1.50.6$70,770
Treasurers and Controllers1.50.6$166,570
Emergency Medicine Physicians1.50.6$335,550
Child, Family, and School Social Workers1.50.6$59,550
General and Operations Managers1.50.6$105,770
Talent Directors1.50.5$90,360
First-Line Supervisors of Gambling Services Workers1.50.8$63,820
School Bus Monitors1.50.5$35,100
Agricultural Equipment Operators1.50.5$41,730
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse1.50.8$35,660
Printing Press Operators1.50.8$45,780
Sales Representatives of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel1.50.9$69,990
Historians1.50.5$76,750
Bartenders1.50.5$34,340
Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks1.50.5$44,390
First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers1.50.8$79,920
Political Scientists1.50.6$142,080
Cost Estimators1.50.8$78,740
Agricultural Technicians1.50.5$49,630
Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic1.50.6$47,720

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