{"id":1475720,"date":"2024-07-07T02:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1475720"},"modified":"2024-07-07T02:45:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T06:45:00","slug":"these-are-americas-least-common-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/these-are-americas-least-common-jobs\/1475720\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are America&#8217;s Least Common Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">These Are America&#8217;s Least Common Jobs<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>In the following graphic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/the-least-common-american-jobs\/\">Visual Capitalist&#8217;s Pallavi Rao ranks and visualizes<\/a> the least common American jobs by number of employees, as per the latest estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bls.gov\/oes\/current\/oes_nat.htm\">BLS<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Annual surveys from\u00a0<strong>business owners<\/strong>\u00a0are used to model employment numbers and wage data for each year. Thus, these figures\u00a0<strong>do not<\/strong>\u00a0include the self-employed, owners of unincorporated firms, or household workers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/VORO_LeastCommonJobs_Site.jpg?itok=SkFt_-7q\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Ranked: America\u2019s Least Common Jobs<\/h2>\n<p>The least commonly-held job in America is\u00a0<strong>\u201cwood patternmaker,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0with only 260 employed by a business country-wide. According to the BLS, wood patternmakers \u201cplan, lay out, and construct wooden unit or sectional patterns used in forming sand molds for castings.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Technological advancements have caused job declines in the industry for the last decade. It is also likely that this occupation has more self-employed individuals, explaining their low numbers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/2024-07-06_14-11-55.jpg?itok=yxCBrK_O\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Clock and timer technicians (not watchmakers), farm labor contractors (460), and furnace and kiln repair technicians (540) are the next three least commonly employed American workers.<\/p>\n<p>Ranked fifth,\u00a0<strong>prosthodontists<\/strong>\u00a0(570) are the second-highest paid occupation ($240,750) on the uncommon jobs list.<\/p>\n<p>In the same vein,\u00a0<strong>pediatric surgeons<\/strong>\u00a0are the 10th least common occupation in America, with only around 1,100 in the entire country.<\/p>\n<p>NPR reports that while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/04\/14\/1244683914\/fewer-doctors-are-going-into-pediatrics-thats-leaving-a-huge-gap-in-hospitals\">pediatric programs<\/a>\u00a0have increased in the last 10 years, the number of trained MDs going into pediatric surgery has steadily decreased. Per\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/04\/02\/too-few-pediatricians-health-care-costs\">STAT News<\/a>, close to one-third pediatric residency programs did not fill their positions in 2024.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you liked this kind of content, check out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.visualcapitalist.com\/the-20-fastest-growing-jobs-in-the-next-decade\/\">The 20 Fastest Growing Jobs in the Next Decade<\/a>\u00a0which identifies where new jobs will be created next.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sat, 07\/06\/2024 &#8211; 22:45<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/these-are-americas-least-common-jobs\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/personal-finance\/these-are-americas-least-common-jobs<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These Are America&#8217;s Least Common Jobs In the following graphic, Visual Capitalist&#8217;s Pallavi Rao ranks and visualizes the least common American jobs by number of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1475721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1475720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1475720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1475720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1475721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1475720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1475720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1475720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}