Most Endangered Jobs of 2014
July 15, 2014 1:50 PM
#10 Tax Examiner and Collector
Much like other careers in the Most Endangered Jobs list, tax examiners and collectors' work is streamlined through technology, allowing employers to hire for fewer positions.
2020 Hiring outlook -4%
Annual Median Salary: $50,440
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2020 Hiring outlook -4%
Annual Median Salary: $50,440
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#9 Printing Worker
In the digital world, less work is done on paper, translating to fewer jobs for hard-copy printing employees.
2020 Hiring outlook -5%
Annual Median Salary: $34,100
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2020 Hiring outlook -5%
Annual Median Salary: $34,100
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#8 Drill-Press Operator
With a continued gridlock in manufacturing hiring, dovetailed with the technological advances, the job market for drill-press operators seems rather bleak.
2020 Hiring outlook -6%
Annual Median Salary: $32,950
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2020 Hiring outlook -6%
Annual Median Salary: $32,950
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#7 Flight Attendant
Airline cutbacks and mergers have put the industry in a steady flux, and the longer-term hiring projections for flight attendants doesnt look like it is cleared for takeoff.
2020 Hiring outlook -7%
Annual Median Salary: $37,240
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2020 Hiring outlook -7%
Annual Median Salary: $37,240
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#6 Lumberjack
Another victim to technology, the logging industry is requiring fewer lumberjacks. And, with less wood pulp needed for paper-based product, demand in the industry is falling.
2020 Hiring outlook -9%
Annual Median Salary: $24,340
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2020 Hiring outlook -9%
Annual Median Salary: $24,340
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#5 Travel Agent
With self-serving options and online resources to arrange vacations, travel agents are focusing more on special trips that require additional preparations and their overall numbers are dwindling.
2020 Hiring outlook -12%
Annual Median Salary: $34,600
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2020 Hiring outlook -12%
Annual Median Salary: $34,600
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#4 Newspaper Reporter
Along with the other paper-specializing professions, newspaper reporters are falling to the wayside to make way for online writers and bloggers -30-.
2020 Hiring outlook -13%
Annual Median Salary: $37,090
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2020 Hiring outlook -13%
Annual Median Salary: $37,090
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#3 Meter Reader
Another technology terminated field, remote-viewing readers allow utility companies to compile data without sending workers to the field.
2020 Hiring outlook -19%
Annual Median Salary $36,410
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2020 Hiring outlook -19%
Annual Median Salary $36,410
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#2 Farmers
Theres that T word again, technology, and as it advances, farmers are able to accomplish more with less particularly workers.
2020 Hiring outlook -19%
Annual Median Salary: $69,300
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2020 Hiring outlook -19%
Annual Median Salary: $69,300
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#1 Mail Carriers
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds
but nobody expected paperless communication would be the mail carriers downfall. As the highest-hit profession, CareerCast says the decline in postal jobs over the coming decade is expected to be severe.
2020 Hiring outlook -28%
Annual Median Salary: $53,100
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2020 Hiring outlook -28%
Annual Median Salary: $53,100
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