NC Career Outlook: Marketing career cluster


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Marketing career cluster

occupation	SOC code	interests	minimum education	growth outlook	current workers	salary entry	salary all
Sales Representatives, Services, all other	41-3099.99	*	mod. OJT	2.28	13,580	$30,000	$57,650
Real Estate Brokers	41-9021.00	*	work exp.	0.79	12,270	$25,430	$51,290
Sales and Related Workers, all other	41-9099.99	*	mod. OJT	1.99	3,510	$19,290	$37,670
Models	41-9012.00	AES	mod. OJT	2.01	130	*	*
Merchandise Displayers and Window Trimmers	27-1026.00	ARE	mod. OJT	1.38	1,650	$18,030	$29,230
Procurement Clerks	43-3061.00	C	short OJT	*	*	$26,440	$35,680
Order Clerks	43-4151.00	CE	short OJT	-3.26	5,790	$19,720	$27,880
Cashiers	41-2011.00	CER	short OJT	0.41	100,250	$14,470	$17,380
Counter and Rental Clerks	41-2021.00	CER	short OJT	1.91	13,560	$15,100	$23,000
Customer Service Representatives	43-4051.00	CES	mod. OJT	2.48	70,040	$20,730	$30,720
occupation	SOC code	interests	minimum education	growth outlook	current workers	salary entry	salary all
Wholesale and Retail Buyers, Except Farm Products	13-1022.00	ECS	work exp.	0.42	2,970	$29,530	$51,000
First-Line Supervisors/ Managers of Retail Sales Workers	41-1011.00	ECS	work exp.	0.94	71,000	$22,220	$36,190
First-Line Supervisors/ Managers of Non-Retail Sales Workers	41-1012.00	ECS	work exp.	0.74	16,950	$37,870	$75,210
Real Estate Sales Agents	41-9022.00	ECS	1,2 year	1.71	12,370	$27,850	$71,430
Telemarketers	41-9041.00	ECS	short OJT	0.15	3,560	$17,590	$23,170
Door-To-Door Sales Workers, News and Street Vendors, and Related Workers	41-9091.00	ECS	short OJT	1.52	1,070	$14,680	$29,580
Parts Salespersons	41-2022.00	ERCS	mod. OJT	0.32	7,690	$20,090	$28,560
Sales Engineers	41-9031.00	ERI	Bachelor	-0.05	1,660	$47,970	$78,270
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products	41-4011.00	ERS	mod. OJT	1.75	13,500	$27,550	$52,700
Demonstrators and Product Promoters	41-9011.00	ERS	mod. OJT	2.58	3,250	$18,190	$30,530
Retail Salespersons	41-2031.00	ES	short OJT	1.62	135,150	$15,670	$23,600
occupation	SOC code	interests	minimum education	growth outlook	current workers	salary entry	salary all
Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products	41-4012.00	ESCR	mod. OJT	1.31	43,490	$32,940	$64,880
Market Research Analysts	19-3021.00	IEC	Master	1.43	4,360	$37,690	$63,920
Parking Lot Attendants	53-6021.00	RE	short OJT	0.40	1,940	$15,640	$19,910
Service Station Attendants	53-6031.00	REC	short OJT	2.59	2,190	$14,650	$18,550

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SOC Codes

Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system classifies all careers and assigns a unique number to each. This SOC number can be used to follow up with other career databases.

Interests

Interests are the likes and dislikes of people who work in each career. Matching your interests can help you find a career that will be more satisfying and rewarding for you than occupations that do not meet your interests. Knowing your work interests can help you decide what kinds of jobs and careers you want to explore.

People and work environments can be classified into these six different groups:

Realistic - "Doers" - People who have athletic or mechanical ability, prefer to work with objects, machines, tools, plants or animals, or to be outdoors.
Investigative - "Thinkers" - People who like to observe, learn, investigate, analyze, evaluate or solve problems.
Artistic - "Creators" - People who have artistic, innovating or intuitional abilities and like to work in unstructured situations using their imagination and creativity.
Social - "Helpers" - People who like to work with people to enlighten, inform, help, train, or cure them, or are skilled with words.
Enterprising - "Persuaders" - People who like to work with people, influencing, persuading, performing, leading or managing for organizational goals or economic gain.
Conventional - "Organizers" - People who like to work with data, have clerical or numerical ability, carry out tasks in detail or follow through on others' instructions.

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Minimum Postsecondary Education Required

Minimum education is the usual minimum level of postsecondary (after high school) education required for each career.

Some careers have on-the-job training (OJT), which means that you go straight to the job and learn while you work.

short OJT - Short on-the-job training (less than one month)
mod. OJT - Moderate on-the-job training (1 to 12 months)
long OJT - Long on-the-job training (more than one year). Long OJT usually includes community college or trade school courses.

Some careers require further education after high school before starting the career.

1,2 year - One- or two-year program at a trade school or community college
Associate - Associate's degree - two-year degree program at a community college
Bachelor - Bachelor's degree - four-year degree program at a college or university
Bach+work - Bachelor's degree plus related work experience
Master - Master's degree - two or more years after Bachelor's degree
Doctorate - Doctorate degree - three or more years after Bachelor's degree
Profess. - Professional degree - three or more years after Bachelor's degree
work exp. - Work experience in a related occupation

Growth Outlook

Growth outlook is the projected growth of the number of career openings per year in North Carolina from 2006 to 2016. High growth means that the number of openings are increasing, so the likelihood of getting a job in this career is good. Low growth means that there may not be any openings, so the likelihood of getting a job in this career is not very good.

low - (red color) - below average projected growth rate (less than 1% growth per year)
moderate - (green color) - average projected growth rate (between 1 and 2.1% growth per year)
high - (blue color) - above average projected growth rate (over 2.1% growth per year)

White background indicates that growth outlook information is not available.

Number of Current Workers in NC

Current workers (2006 data) is the number of people in North Carolina who are full-time and part-time employees, workers on paid vacation or other type of paid leave, workers assigned temporarily to other units and paid owners, officers and staff of incorporated firms. This excludes proprietors, owners and partners of unincorporated firms, unpaid family workers, workers on unpaid leave and contractors and temporary agency employees not on the company payroll.

Entry-Level NC Salaries

Salary entry is the average salary for all entry-level (first-year) workers in this career in North Carolina. The entry wage is the mean of the first third of the wage distribution from the 2008 Occupational Employment Statistics combined wage file.

Salary includes straight time, gross pay, exclusive of premium pay. Base rate, cost-of-living allowances, tips, guaranteed pay, hazardous-duty pay, incentive pay, commissions, production bonuses and on-call pay are included. Excluded is back pay, jury duty pay, overtime pay, severance pay, shift differentials, non-production bonuses and tuition reimbursements.

Average NC Salaries

Salary all is the average salary for all workers in this career in North Carolina. Data were prepared from the 2008 Occupational Employment Statistics combined wage file.

The data come from multiple data tables from the NC Employment Security Commission - Labor Market Information. Blanks in this table represent missing data, some due to confidentiality because of small numbers of workers in an occupation.

Database updated 09/02/09

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