Shares of top 15 H-2B occupations with various education levels, 2014
H-2B Rank FY 2014* | SOC Code | Occupation | O*NET Job Zone | Less than high school diploma | High school diploma or equivalent | Post-secondary certificate | Some college, no degree | Associate’s degree | Bachelor’s degree | Master’s degree | Doctoral degree |
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1 | 37-3011 | Landscaping and groundskeeping workers | 1 | 52 | 26 | 16 | |||||
2 | 45-4011 | Forest and conservation workers | 3 | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
3 | 39-3091 | Amusement and recreation attendants | 1 | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
4 | 37-2012 | Maids and housekeeping cleaners | 2 | 35 | 64 | 1 | |||||
5 | 51-3022 | Meat, poultry, and fish cutters and trimmers | 1 | 65 | 35 | ||||||
6 | 47-2061 | Construction laborers | 2 | 23 | 70 | 6 | |||||
7 | 27-2022 | Coaches and scouts | 4 | 28 | 47 | 15 | |||||
8 | 35-3031 | Waiters and waitresses | 1 | 37 | 50 | 7 | |||||
9 | 39-2021 | Nonfarm animal caretakers | 1 | 34 | 24 | 18 | |||||
10 | 45-3011 | Fishers and related fishing workers | 1 | 50 | 25 | 10 | |||||
11 | 51-9198 | Helpers—production workers | 1 | 36 | 52 | 11 | |||||
12 | 35-2014 | Cooks, restaurant | 2 | 33 | 38 | 11 | |||||
13 | 53-7064 | Packers and packagers, hand | 2 | 31 | 47 | 19 | |||||
14 | 35-2021 | Food preparation workers | 1 | 54 | 30 | 7 | |||||
15 | 35-9011 | Dining room and cafeteria attendants and bartender helpers | 1 | 46 | 50 | 4 |
*Number of labor certifications, from Table 1.
Note: SOC stands for Standard Occupational Classification system used by federal agencies to classify workers into occupational categories; n/a = not available; blank entries = no data reported by O*NET OnLine.
U.S. DOL's Occupational Information Network (O*NET) slots occupations into zones depending on the educational and training needs of the occupation; the higher the zone number, the greater the need. For H-2B rankings, data set excludes records from original labeled "certification expired" and "partial certification expired" because expired records were not likely to become approved USCIS H-2B petitions or visas issued by the State Department.
Source: H-2B Disclosure Data from the Office of Foreign Labor Certification's Performance Data; and O*NET OnLine