Trade,Estimated Employment Construction Laborers,1,019,090 First-Line Supervisors of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers,777,420 Electricians,712,580 Carpenters,700,290 Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators,450,370
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Where as there’s nearly 4 million acredited teachers and 3 million registered nurses
45-0000 Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations 432,200
47-0000 Construction and Extraction Occupations 6,225,630
49-0000 Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations 5,989,460
51-0000 Production Occupations 8,770,170
53-0000 Transportation and Material Moving Occupations 13,752,760
That adds up to 35 million total employed.
[1] https://blog.dol.gov/2023/03/21/data-spotlight-employment-of...
- these aren't the only trades. Sorry i got confused by chatgpt - I only meant to point out, this seems like a very small amount of people compared to what I thought - Not a mistake, but I was kindof joking with the post and it wasn't obvious. For this alone I deserved the massive downvote I got. I do think these numbers don't reflect the true number of people working in the field as say registered nurses or professional teachers because... how do i say this in a nice way.... many of them may be sharing a ssn and that's much more dangerous from a regulatory perspective than doing that as a REGISTERED nurse or PROFESSIONAL teacher. However there's a lot of peop[le nursing and teaching who aren't in those stats as well
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