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
Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs1.30.3$54,210
Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles1.30.4$56,460
Cooks, Fast Food1.30.3$30,890
Genetic Counselors1.30.3$100,040
Logging Equipment Operators1.30.3$49,740
Fast Food and Counter Workers1.30.3$31,200
Interviewers, Except Eligibility and Loan1.30.4$45,920
New Accounts Clerks1.30.3$47,670
Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners1.30.3$36,840
Locomotive Engineers1.30.3$81,410
Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers1.30.3$39,150
Pesticide Handlers, Sprayers, and Applicators, Vegetation1.30.4$46,340
Animal Breeders1.30.3$51,130
Customs Brokers1.30.3$80,730
Telemarketers1.30.3$35,450
Funeral Attendants1.30.3$35,680
Personal Care Aides1.30.4—
Helpers--Electricians1.30.4$42,670
Baggage Porters and Bellhops1.30.3$37,080
Telephone Operators1.30.3$41,740
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand1.30.3$40,240
Family Medicine Physicians1.30.4$244,180
Mail Clerks and Mail Machine Operators, Except Postal Service1.30.3$39,280
Tire Repairers and Changers1.30.3$37,710
Rail Yard Engineers, Dinkey Operators, and Hostlers1.30.3$60,600
Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment1.30.3$35,830
Bus Drivers, School1.30.3$47,920
Bailiffs1.30.4$56,600
Light Truck Drivers1.30.3$44,860
Metal-Refining Furnace Operators and Tenders1.30.3$54,430
Arbitrators, Mediators, and Conciliators1.30.3$75,530
Passenger Attendants1.30.3$37,720
Medical Secretaries and Administrative Assistants1.30.3$45,930
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers1.30.3$58,650
Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders1.30.3$39,530
Political Science Teachers, Postsecondary1.30.3$98,070
Adhesive Bonding Machine Operators and Tenders1.30.3$46,460
Appraisers of Personal and Business Property1.30.3—
Gambling Dealers1.10.1$34,320
Roof Bolters, Mining1.10.1$78,540
Farm Labor Contractors1.10.1$58,460
Security Guards1.10.3$38,020
Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks1.10.1$50,670
Tapers1.10.1$68,270
Packers and Packagers, Hand1.10.1$36,280
Helpers--Production Workers1.10.1$39,070
Insurance Claims and Policy Processing Clerks1.10.1$49,230
Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians1.10.1$35,450
Orderlies1.10.3$38,290

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