Defense-related employment and spending, 1996-2006

Monthly Labor Review,  July, 1998  by Allison Thomson

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                                                          Indirect
    Occupation                                           employment

All other sales and related workers                         51.1
All other managers and administrators                       48.7
Truck drivers, light and heavy                              29.9
Janitors and cleaners, including maids and
 housekeepers                                               26.9
General office clerks                                       24.2
Secretaries, except legal and medical                       22.7
All other assemblers and fabricators                        21.4
All other helpers, laborers, and material movers,
 hand                                                       20.4
Blue-collar worker supervisors                              20.0
All other clerical and administrative support workers       18.6
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks                17.5

Guards                                                      14.4
Accountants and auditors                                    12.4
Computer engineers, scientists, and systems
 analysts                                                   12.1
Salespersons, retail                                        12.1
Maintenance repairers, general utility                      11.7
Inspectors, testers, and graders, precision                 11.7
Cashiers                                                    11.5
Hand packers and packagers                                  11.4
Clerical supervisors and managers                           11.3
Stock clerks                                                11.1
Freight, stock, and material movers, hand                   10.7

All other machinery operators, tenders, setters, and
 setup operators                                            10.4
All other management support workers                         9.8
Waiters and waitresses                                       9.7
Machinists                                                   8.3
Computer programmers                                         7.9
Receptionists and information clerks                         7.8
Financial managers                                           7.5
Food counter, fountain, and related workers                  7.5
Industrial truck and tractor operators                       7.0
Electrical and electronic assemblers                         6.9
Industrial machinery mechanics                               6.8
All other professional workers                               6.7
All other service workers                                    6.5
Printing, binding, and related workers                       6.5

Electrical and electronics engineers                         6.4
All other handworkers                                        6.0
Marketing, advertising, and public relations
 managers                                                    5.8
All other engineering technicians and technologists          5.8
Typists and word processors                                  5.8

All other machine tool cutters and formers                   5.6
All other agricultural, forestry, fishery, and related
 workers                                                     5.5
Data entry keyers, except composing                          5.4
Electrical and electronic technicians and technologists      5.2
Drafters                                                     5.1
Electrical and electronic equipment assemblers,
 precision                                                   5.0
Teachers, preschool through college,except special
 and adult education                                         4.9
Welders and cutters                                          4.9
All other engineers                                          4.7