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Forklift operators

Official title Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators (SOC 53-7051)

Also called Forklift driver, Lift truck operator, Reach truck operator, Pallet jack operator, Warehouse equipment operator

In brief

In May 2025, BLS counted 774,420 US forklift operators, with median pay of $46,420 a year. Of the BLS counts since 2021, the highest was 805,770, in May 2024, close to the May 2025 count. The earliest figure here is an estimate of 85,000 from 1945, not measured the same way as today's count. The last full technology era for forklift operators: Toyota / Linde autonomous forklifts + AGV fleet management + Otto Motors/Clearpath AMRs, 2014 to 2023.

What the sources say

Official outlook

BLS projects employment to grow 1.5% from 2025 to 2035.

BLS Employment Projections 2025-35

AI exposure studies

  • 3.1% of this job's tasks are exposed to large language models. Not a forecast of job losses. Eloundou and others, 2023
  • 0.93 estimated probability that the whole occupation could be computerised, over an unspecified number of years. Not a forecast of job losses. Frey and Osborne, 2013

Since the 2013 prediction

In 2013, Frey and Osborne put this job's probability of computerisation at 0.93. BLS counted 504,560 of these jobs in May 2013 and 774,420 in May 2025. The count moved sharply in one step, May 2020 to May 2021, when BLS changed how it estimates these counts, so no change is derived here.

Data as of BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025-35. BLS publishes these counts as yearly survey snapshots and cautions against reading them as a precise trend. In May 2021 BLS changed how it estimates these counts (a model-based method using three years of survey data) and moved fully to the 2018 occupation codes, so part of a change across 2021 can come from the method rather than the work.

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@misc{futurehistory_53_7051, author = {{Future History}}, title = {Forklift operators: jobs and pay since 1945}, year = {2026}, month = oct, howpublished = {\url{https://futurehistory.earth/timeline/53-7051}}, note = {Last updated 2026-10-11. Data as of BLS OEWS May 2025; BLS Employment Projections 2025-35}, }

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1925195019752000now
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2026
Known then as Electric truck operator / battery truck driver (novelty, factory use)
Known then as Tructractor operator / industrial truck operator / lift truck driver
Known then as Forklift operator / lift truck operator / stacker operator
Known then as Forklift operator / industrial truck operator (OSHA 1910.178 certified)
Known then as Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators (BLS SOC 53-7051)
Known today as Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators (BLS SOC 53-7051)
Projected to still be called Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators (BLS SOC 53-7051)
Data from the May 2025 survey
US Employment
774K
Est.

Stated in source: BLS OEWS

Official statistic
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Median Annual Wage
$46,420
Est.

≈ $45,230 in 2024 prices (derived by us, CPI-adjusted)

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Beat · 1906

The Pennsylvania Railroad introduces battery-powered electric platform trucks at its Altoona, Pennsylvania freight terminal: the first documented self-propelled industrial truck in US commercial use. The vehicle is a flat-bed platform mover, not a forklift, but it establishes the principle that electric motors can substitute for human muscle in terminal freight handling. The Pennsylvania Railroad was at the time the largest railroad in the world by revenue; its adoption of the electric truck is a signal to other large freight handlers that the technology is commercially viable.

Beat · 1917

The Clark Company of Battle Creek, Michigan, builds the first Tructractor: a gasoline-powered front-fork lift vehicle designed to move materials inside its own factory. When visitors ask to buy it, Clark turns it into a product. The Tructractor's counterbalanced chassis and front-fork architecture are the direct ancestors of every forklift manufactured since. Clark would go on to become one of the world's largest forklift manufacturers, a position it held for much of the 20th century.

Beat · 1971

OSHA (established December 29, 1970) begins enforcing workplace safety standards. Powered industrial trucks (which had been killing approximately 100 workers per year and seriously injuring 95,000 more annually in the United States) are an immediate enforcement priority. The 1974 Powered Industrial Trucks standard (29 CFR 1910.178) formalized three years of rulemaking. The certification and training requirements it created transformed the forklift operator from an informal role into a formal credentialed trade. Fifty years later, the 1974 standard is still the primary regulatory framework governing the occupation.

Beat · 2003

Hans Moravec, the Carnegie Mellon University roboticist who coined the term "Moravec's paradox" (the counterintuitive observation that tasks easy for humans are hard for robots, and vice versa), founds Seegrid Corporation to commercialize his research in vision-guided vehicle navigation for industrial environments. Moravec's paradox is particularly apt for forklift automation: a human operator's ability to judge whether a pallet is safely positioned, navigate around a co-worker without slowing, or recognize that a floor patch is wet relies on perceptual systems that are cheap and easy for humans but extraordinarily expensive to replicate in software. Seegrid deploys its first commercial autonomous tow tractor in 2009: the beginning of the "infrastructure-free" autonomous vehicle era that does not require embedded floor wires or reflective tape.

Beat · 2014

Toyota Material Handling, the world's largest forklift manufacturer with approximately 30% global market share, deploys its first commercial autonomous forklift using laser-SLAM navigation. This is the moment the autonomous forklift transitions from research concept to shipping product from the dominant player in the industry. Linde Material Handling (KION Group), Jungheinrich, Hyster-Yale, and Crown all follow within the next five years. The industry consensus: autonomous forklifts work best on fixed, repetitive routes in structured environments. The judgment-intensive parts of the job (receiving dock navigation, non-standard load handling, mixed-traffic maneuvering) remain human.

Beat · 2023

Rockwell Automation acquires Clearpath Robotics, the Canadian robotics company whose OTTO Motors division makes autonomous mobile robots for heavy manufacturing material handling, for approximately $530 million. The acquisition signals that industrial automation incumbents (Rockwell, a $14 billion automation company) are moving aggressively into the autonomous material-handling space. Concurrently, BLS records 792,500 forklift operators in the 2024 National Employment Matrix, more than any pre-AGV analyst had projected at the time autonomous forklifts were first deployed. The demand-outpaces-automation dynamic that characterizes 53-7062 (hand laborers) operates here as well.

Beat · 2024

BLS National Employment Matrix records 792,500 workers in SOC 53-7051 and projects +1.1% growth to 2034. The annual job openings figure (76,400) substantially exceeds the net job change projection (9,100) because forklift operation has higher-than-average turnover from physically demanding conditions and rotating shift schedules. This gap between openings and net change is the practical labor-market reality: even if the total headcount grows only slightly, a person who earns a forklift certification can expect to find openings regularly throughout the decade.

How to read this number

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Cited forecasts · present → 2035

Will AI replace forklift operators? What the research says

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What published forecasts say
Forecast change in the number of people doing this work, as published by each named source. Bars share one scale on every role, centred on zero and reaching the end at ±30%. Grey marks a small change, 3% or less either way.
BLS Employment Projections 2025-35
→ 2035
+1.5%
BLS National Employment Matrix, 2025-35 cycle, line for SOC 53-7051 (Industrial truck and tractor operators): 765.2 thousand jobs in 2025, projected 776.3 thousand in 2035, a change of +11.1 thousand (+1.5%). Matrix employment counts all jobs in the occupation, including self-employed workers (0.5% of this occupation in 2025). The average for all occupations in this cycle is +3.5%.
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How exposed is this work to AI (research measures)
Scores as published by each study. Each row says what it measures. These measure what AI could technically do, not forecasts of jobs lost.
Frey & Osborne (2013), "The Future of Employment"
2013 study · Probability of computerisation (2013 model)
93%
probability
What this measures

Published appendix value for SOC 2010 53-7051 Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators: probability of computerisation 0.93, rank 588 of 702 (rank 1 is least computerisable). Frey and Osborne estimated in 2013, with a Gaussian-process classifier on O*NET variables, how likely the whole occupation is to be technically automatable over "some unspecified number of years, perhaps a decade or two". It is a probability for the occupation, not a share of tasks and not a forecast of jobs lost.

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Eloundou et al. (2023), "GPTs are GPTs"
2023 study · Share of tasks exposed to LLMs (β, human-rated)
3.1%
of tasks
What this measures

Published occupation-level exposure from the paper's occ_level.csv for O*NET-SOC 53-7051.00 Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators. Shown: human-rated β = 0.031, the share of the occupation's tasks an LLM could do in at least half the time at equal quality, counting tasks that need LLM-powered software at half weight (β = E1 + 0.5 × E2). Other published measures for this occupation: human-rated α (LLM alone) 0 and γ (all LLM-assisted) 0.063; GPT-4-rated β 0.031. This measures how much of the work an LLM could touch, not how many jobs disappear.

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Today, in this role

What's changing day to day for forklift operators

Three parts of your work where AI is already doing real lifting, and what stays yours.

AI is sitting alongside you hereOperate counterbalance and reach forklifts to move palletized goods between receiving docks, racking, and staging areas according to warehouse management system (WMS) task assignments

Operate counterbalance and reach forklifts to move palletized goods between receiving docks, racking, and staging areas according to warehouse management system (WMS) task assignments; monitor assignment queues and confirm picks in the WMS.[1],[4],[7]

Where your edge is

Learn to read and interact with the WMS task-management interface: acknowledge tasks, report discrepancies, and flag exceptions that autonomous units cannot handle. Operators who can triage AMR exceptions are retained as supervisory eyes on the floor when fleets go partially autonomous.

AI is sitting alongside you hereLoad and unload trailers and containers at receiving and shipping docks, securing loads per carrier requirements, verifying counts against bills of lading, and flagging damaged or mislabeled freight to supervisors.

Load and unload trailers and containers at receiving and shipping docks, securing loads per carrier requirements, verifying counts against bills of lading, and flagging damaged or mislabeled freight to supervisors.[6],[1]

Where your edge is

Gain certification in load-securement regulations (FMCSA rules, strap tonnage ratings). Dock loading involves non-standard trailer configurations, damaged pallets, and weight-distribution judgment that autonomous systems handle poorly: operators skilled in these edge cases remain necessary alongside dock robots.

AI is sitting alongside you hereExecute inventory cycle counts using WMS-directed location lists and handheld scanners

Execute inventory cycle counts using WMS-directed location lists and handheld scanners; compare physical counts to system quantities; investigate and document discrepancies; escalate unexplained variances to inventory control.[1],[11]

Where your edge is

Develop fluency in the WMS cycle-count workflow beyond scanning: understand how discrepancies are coded, how adjustments are approved, and how location accuracy rates are tracked. Operators who can explain and reduce variance rates are candidates for inventory control coordinator roles.

Where forklift operators go next

Natural next steps for someone with your foundation: not exits, evolutions.

  • Logisticians
    US median pay
    $82,320 (May 2025)
    BLS outlook 2025-35
    +17.6%
  • Industrial Machinery Mechanics
    US median pay
    $64,520 (May 2025)
    BLS outlook 2025-35
    +17.8%
  • First-Line Supervisors of Helpers, Laborers, and Material Movers, HandNo timeline for this role yet

What each move takes

A direction you could grow

Logisticians

Forklift operators have rare floor-level operational knowledge of how goods actually flow through a facility, which makes them credible supply chain analysts once they add planning and data skills. The path requires either a supply chain certificate or associate degree, plus WMS/ERP platform competence. Operators in facilities that run SAP or Manhattan WMS already have the on-the-job WMS exposure; the gap is formal inventory/logistics methodology.

What you'd add
  • · Supply chain fundamentals: inventory management, demand forecasting, carrier negotiation (APICS CSCP or equivalent)
  • · ERP and WMS data analysis: running reports, interpreting fill rates and inventory turns
  • · Transportation and carrier operations: LTL/FTL rating, BOL requirements, freight audit
  • · Spreadsheet and basic data literacy (Excel/Google Sheets pivot tables, VLOOKUP-level proficiency)
What it takesA real upskill, but a natural one
Tools of the era

How has the work of forklift operators changed since 1906?

The tools that defined the work, one line per era. Select an era to see how it reshaped the work.

  • Battery-electric platform truck (Pennsylvania Railroad, 1906) + Clark Tructractor (1917)

    The first self-propelled industrial trucks were battery-electric: the Pennsylvania Railroad introduced them at its Altoona freight terminal in 1906 to reduce the back-breaking labor of rolling heavy freight carts across terminal floors. The battery technology was primitive: lead-acid cells, limited range, slow recharging. But for the terminal environment, where the truck never left the building and could be recharged overnight, range was not the constraint. When Clark introduced its gasoline-powered Tructractor in 1917, it opened the tool to outdoor factory yards and loading docks where battery range was insufficient. The Tructractor had a front-mounted fork and a counterbalanced chassis: the essential architecture of every forklift since. The era from 1906 to 1939 was one of experimentation: Clark, Yale, Hyster, Baker, and Raymond all introduced competing designs; electric and gasoline variants competed by environment; the standardized wooden pallet (whose dimensions remained un-standardized until WWII) had not yet emerged to rationalize the load interface.

    Effect on the work

    Employment in industrial truck operation grew between 1906 and 1940. The technology did not displace hand laborers 1-for-1; it enabled far larger warehouses and faster throughput, creating net new operator demand while reducing the pure-muscle component of materials handling.

  • Modern hydraulic counterbalance forklift (Clark/Yale/Hyster) + WWII pallet standardization

    The modern hydraulic counterbalance forklift (with a mast that raises and lowers a fork carriage via a hydraulic cylinder, a counterbalanced rear chassis to prevent tipping under load, and pneumatic tires for factory-floor mobility) was fully mature by the late 1930s. Clark, Yale & Towne, Hyster, and several other manufacturers were producing recognizably modern forklifts before World War II began. The war transformed the tool's adoption rate: the armed services narrowed the wooden pallet to a short list of standard sizes for military supply (the Navy standardized on a 48-by-48-inch pallet), giving the forklift a common load-interface that made pallet-handling the standard logistics protocol across the entire American economy within a decade of war's end. Every manufacturing plant, every warehouse, every freight terminal had to be reconfigured around the pallet-and-forklift system. The Clark forklift went to war; several years later, it was in every Sears warehouse, every GM plant, every grocery distribution center in the country.

    Effect on the work

    The combination of the mature forklift and the standardized pallet enabled warehouse scales that had previously been physically impossible. The Sears Chicago warehouse and the postwar expansion of retail distribution required forklift operator workforces in the thousands at individual facilities. The occupation grew rapidly through the 1950s and 1960s, from roughly 85,000 in 1945 to an estimated 200,000+ by 1960.

  • OSHA 29 CFR 1910.178 certification (1974) + propane-powered lift trucks + reach trucks

    OSHA's Powered Industrial Trucks standard (29 CFR 1910.178), established June 27, 1974 (many FR 23502), created the first federal framework requiring formal operator training, pre-shift safety inspections, and specific load-capacity compliance for forklift operations. Before 1974, forklift operation was frequently an informal skill: whoever was available and willing drove the forklift. The 1974 standard (subsequently updated in 1999 to require hands-on performance evaluations and formal refresher training every three years) established forklift certification as a formal skilled-trade credential. Concurrently, propane-powered lift trucks became the dominant fuel source for indoor/outdoor warehouse use by the 1970s (propane emits lower carbon monoxide than gasoline in confined spaces), and reach trucks, forklifts with pantograph masts that extend forward to reach into racking without moving the chassis, made very-narrow-aisle warehousing viable, enabling higher-density storage that drove further demand for skilled operators.

    Effect on the work

    OSHA certification separated the occupation into formal skilled labor. The certification requirement that became federal law in 1974 is still the primary credentialing pathway decades later. Reach truck and very-narrow-aisle (VNA) forklift specialties commanded premium wages. Total employment continued to grow through the 1970s-1990s with the expansion of big-box retail distribution.

  • Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) + RF-directed forklift operations + first AGVs

    As WMS software moved from mainframes to client-server architecture in the mid-1990s, the forklift operator's work was transformed by directed-task technology. A 1990s forklift operator navigated by memory, paper pick-lists, and informal knowledge of the rack layout; a 2005 operator in a modern DC followed RF scanner prompts and WMS-generated task assignments that directed every put-away, replenishment, and outbound staging move. Scan-verify put-away reduced inventory placement errors dramatically; real-time slot location in WMS made random slot assignment viable (the highest-velocity SKUs nearest the dock, regardless of category), optimizing the operator's travel time. Simultaneously, the first generation of Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs), fixed-track or wire-guided vehicles following embedded floor wires or reflective tape, began appearing in high-volume, structured automotive manufacturing environments in the 1990s. These were expensive, inflexible installations (reprogramming a wire-guided route required physical floor work), and they penetrated warehousing slowly. Seegrid, founded in 2003 by Carnegie Mellon roboticist Hans Moravec, began commercializing vision-guided vehicles (VGVs) that used stereo cameras and 3D occupancy mapping rather than floor infrastructure for navigation: the ancestor of the modern autonomous forklift.

    Effect on the work

    WMS-directed operations intensified productivity measurement and task-pacing for forklift operators. First-generation AGVs displaced some tow-tractor and tugger routes in automotive plants but had minimal impact on the broader warehouse forklift workforce. Seegrid's 2009 deployment of its first commercial autonomous tow tractor marked the beginning of the infrastructure-free autonomous vehicle era that would accelerate post-2014.

  • Toyota / Linde autonomous forklifts (2014+) + AGV fleet management + Otto Motors/Clearpath AMRs

    Toyota Material Handling (the world's largest forklift manufacturer) deployed its first commercial autonomous forklift in 2014, using laser-SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) navigation rather than floor infrastructure. Linde Material Handling (part of KION Group, the global number two) followed with its own autonomous forklift line. Jungheinrich, Hyster-Yale, and Crown Equipment all released autonomous or semi-autonomous lift truck variants through the 2015-2020 period. Otto Motors (later rebranded OTTO Motors under Clearpath Robotics, acquired by Rockwell Automation in 2023) deployed autonomous mobile robots for tow-tractor and heavy-transport roles in manufacturing plants. The technology worked best in structured, repetitive routes (receiving-to-storage, storage-to-picking-station) in environments where the floor was clear and route variability was low. Human operators remained essential for tasks requiring judgment: navigating congested receiving docks, working around pedestrian traffic, handling non-standard loads, and performing the dexterous mast adjustments that autonomous systems still struggled with.

    Effect on the work

    Despite significant autonomous forklift deployment, BLS OEWS employment for SOC 53-7051 grew from 539,810 (2015) to 805,770 (2024). The job evolved: operators in AGV-equipped facilities increasingly worked as fleet monitors and exception-handlers rather than full-time drivers, but the human fleet grew faster than the robot fleet because e-commerce volume and manufacturing reshoring continued to expand the total demand for material movement.

  • AI-vision-guided autonomous forklifts + fleet telematics + operator-assist systems

    By 2023, the autonomous forklift market had matured past its first generation of laser-SLAM systems into a second generation combining 3D LiDAR, RGB-D cameras, and AI-vision systems capable of recognizing non-standard pallets, damaged loads, and partially obstructed pathways. STILL (part of KION Group), Körber, and Vecna Robotics deployed AI-vision pallet-recognition systems that allowed forklifts to autonomously pick unsorted pallets from dock positions without human positioning. Operator-assist systems (forklift telematics platforms from providers including Hyster-Yale's Nuvera, Toyota's T-Matics, and third-party platforms including Cyngn and 6River Systems) enabled real-time utilization tracking, impact-detection alerts, and predictive maintenance scheduling that raised effective fleet productivity without necessarily reducing headcount. The frontier in 2024-2025 is the depalletizing and trailer-unloading problem: unloading a mixed-SKU trailer in which boxes are stacked non-uniformly is a task that still requires human judgment at reliable commercial speed. Dexterous autonomous unloading systems from Berkshire Grey, Pickle Robot, and others were in early commercial deployment as of 2026 but had not reached the cost-and-reliability threshold for broad adoption.

    Effect on the work

    BLS projects +1.1% employment growth for SOC 53-7051 over 2024-2034 (net +9,100 jobs), with approximately 76,400 annual openings (new jobs plus replacement need combined). The projection reflects the BLS assessment that demand growth from e-commerce and manufacturing will roughly offset autonomous-vehicle-driven productivity improvement over the decade. Annual openings substantially exceed net job change because forklift operation has relatively high turnover from physically demanding and sometimes repetitive conditions.

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Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators employment and pay by year

On record since1917
Latest US employment774,420 (May 2025)Source: BLS OEWS May 2025Official statisticReport an error
Latest US median pay$46,420 (May 2025)Source: BLS OEWS May 2025Official statisticReport an error
Outlook+1.5% by 2035Source: BLS Employment Projections 2025-35Official statisticReport an error

In other countries

The latest figure each country's statistics agency publishes for this job. Each uses its own occupation definition, survey basis and currency, so the numbers are not directly comparable with each other or with the US figures.

  • United Kingdom (UK SOC 8222)

    Employment, 2025
    19,000, ONS ASHE 2025 Official statistic Report an errorONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Table 14): employee jobs in SOC 8222 Fork-lift truck drivers, United Kingdom, 2025 (ASHE "number of jobs", thousands x1000; excludes self-employment). Open Government Licence v3.0.
    Median pay, 2025
    £31,016, ONS ASHE 2025 Official statistic Report an errorONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Table 14.7a): median gross annual pay for all employee jobs in SOC 8222 Fork-lift truck drivers, United Kingdom, 2025. Open Government Licence v3.0.

  • Australia (ANZSCO 7213)

    Employment, 2025
    63,300, ABS Labour Force Survey Official statistic Report an errorABS Labour Force Survey (Detailed), table EQ08: employed persons in ANZSCO 7213 Forklift Drivers, national (summed across sex and state/territory), annual average of 4 quarterly estimates.
    Median pay, 2025
    A$69,680, ABS Employee Earnings May 2025 Official statistic Report an errorAnnualised (x52) from A$1,340 median weekly earnings. ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025: median pay for full-time non-managerial employees paid at the adult rate, before tax. Surfaced via the Jobs and Skills Australia occupation profile.
View all 27 years of cited US data, each linked to its source
YearUS employmentAnnual pay (median unless marked)SourceReport
194585,000n/aEst., Industrial Truck Association Researched contextReport
1960200,000n/aEst., BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook Researched contextReport
1980400,000$14,500Est., OSHA (employment) Researched contextEst., BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook (pay) Researched contextReport
2000590,000$26,000Est., BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook Researched contextReport
2003604,350$26,370BLS OEWS May 2003 Official statisticReport
2004631,530$26,580BLS OEWS May 2004 Official statisticReport
2005627,060$27,080BLS OEWS May 2005 Official statisticReport
2006629,100$27,270BLS OEWS May 2006 Official statisticReport
2007630,700$28,010BLS OEWS May 2007 Official statisticReport
2008620,450$29,070BLS OEWS May 2008 Official statisticReport
2009568,270$29,550BLS OEWS May 2009 Official statisticReport
2010518,350$29,780BLS OEWS May 2010 Official statisticReport
2011503,290$30,010BLS OEWS May 2011 Official statisticReport
2012496,570$30,220BLS OEWS May 2012 Official statisticReport
2013504,560$30,730BLS OEWS May 2013 Official statisticReport
2014521,840$31,340BLS OEWS May 2014 Official statisticReport
2015539,810$32,090BLS OEWS May 2015 Official statisticReport
2016542,750$32,460BLS OEWS May 2016 Official statisticReport
2017570,300$33,630BLS OEWS May 2017 Official statisticReport
2018604,130$34,750BLS OEWS May 2018 Official statisticReport
2019629,270$36,200BLS OEWS May 2019 Official statisticReport
2020640,950$37,560BLS OEWS May 2020 Official statisticReport
2021758,290$38,380BLS OEWS May 2021 Official statisticReport
2022780,890$41,230BLS OEWS May 2022 Official statisticReport
2023778,920$44,470BLS OEWS May 2023 Official statisticReport
2024805,770$46,390BLS OEWS May 2024 Official statisticReport
2025774,420$46,420BLS OEWS May 2025 Official statisticReport
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