Defense-related employment and spending, 1996-2006
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