CDCareer Decision

Time Management Skills and Careers

Managing one's own time and the time of others.

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

Occupations reporting Time Management

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

OccupationImportanceLevelNational median wage
Web Developers3.02.9$92,650
Anthropologists and Archeologists3.03.0$70,770
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers3.03.0$104,300
Private Detectives and Investigators3.03.0$51,220
Sociologists3.02.9$106,030
Opticians, Dispensing3.02.9$47,260
Environmental Economists3.03.0$124,720
Retail Loss Prevention Specialists3.02.8$42,540
Cooks, Restaurant3.03.0$37,390
Database Architects3.03.0$139,500
Veterinary Technologists and Technicians3.02.9$47,380
Parking Enforcement Workers3.02.5$46,730
Hydrologists3.03.1$96,600
Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers3.03.0$101,920
Computer Network Support Specialists3.02.6$76,220
Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers3.03.0$76,210
Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists3.02.9$95,480
Industrial Ecologists3.03.1$82,220
Environmental Restoration Planners3.03.4$82,220
Diagnostic Medical Sonographers3.03.0$96,590
Cardiovascular Technologists and Technicians3.03.0$74,310
Histology Technicians3.02.6—
Intelligence Analysts3.03.0$93,790
Customs and Border Protection Officers3.03.3$76,210
Materials Scientists3.03.1$117,790
Cytotechnologists3.03.0—
Cytogenetic Technologists3.03.0—
Chemists3.03.1$91,240
Orthoptists3.03.0$115,210
Dental Hygienists3.03.0$98,100
Atmospheric and Space Scientists3.03.0$99,070
Credit Counselors3.03.1$52,230
Acupuncturists3.03.0$76,040
Nuclear Medicine Technologists3.03.0$101,370
Computer User Support Specialists3.03.0$61,860
Radiologic Technologists and Technicians3.03.0$80,110
Hearing Aid Specialists3.03.0$65,160
Transit and Railroad Police3.03.1$90,230
Park Naturalists3.03.1$73,010
Dietetic Technicians3.03.0$37,640
Pharmacy Technicians3.03.0$45,750
Psychiatric Technicians3.02.9$45,130
Pediatricians, General3.03.5$210,040
Range Managers3.03.1$73,010
Economists3.03.0$124,720
Biologists3.03.6$98,920
Geneticists3.03.5$98,920
Fraud Examiners, Investigators and Analysts3.03.0$81,100
Financial Quantitative Analysts3.03.0$81,100
Microbiologists3.03.9$87,990

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