Research Job Types

Drive bus or motor coach, including regular route operations, charters, and private carriage. May assist passengers with baggage. May collect fares or tickets.

Hourly Wages: $9.45 - $24.80

Yearly Wages: $19,700.00 - $51,600.00

All business operations specialists not listed separately.

Hourly Wages: $14.73 - $48.09

Yearly Wages: $30,600.00 - $100,000.00

Teach courses in business administration and management, such as accounting, finance, human resources, labor relations, marketing, and operations research. Include both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of both teaching and research.

Hourly Wages: $32,800.00 - $125,400.00

Yearly Wages: $34,600.00 - $123,600.00

Repair and adjust cameras and photographic equipment, including commercial video and motion picture camera equipment.

Hourly Wages: $9.09 - $28.31

Yearly Wages: $18,900.00 - $58,900.00

Operate television, video, or motion picture camera to photograph images or scenes for various purposes, such as TV broadcasts, advertising, video production, or motion pictures.

Hourly Wages: $10.12 - $37.66

Yearly Wages: $21,000.00 - $78,300.00

Command or supervise operations of ships and water vessels, such as tugboats and ferryboats, that travel into and out of harbors, estuaries, straits, and sounds and on rivers, lakes, bays, and oceans. Required to hold license issued by U.S. Coast Guard. Exclude "Motorboat Operators".

Hourly Wages: $14.20 - $47.75

Yearly Wages: $29,500.00 - $99,300.00

Conduct tests on pulmonary or cardiovascular systems of patients for diagnostic purposes. May conduct or assist in electrocardiograms, cardiac catheterizations, pulmonary-functions, lung capacity, and similar tests. Include vascular technologists.

Hourly Wages: $11.85 - $34.37

Yearly Wages: $24,600.00 - $71,500.00

Expedite and route movement of incoming and outgoing cargo and freight shipments in airline, train, and trucking terminals, and shipping docks. Take orders from customers and arrange pickup of freight and cargo for delivery to loading platform. Prepare and examine bills of lading to determine shipping charges and tariffs.

Hourly Wages: $10.92 - $27.67

Yearly Wages: $22,700.00 - $57,600.00

Construct, erect, install, or repair structures and fixtures made of wood, such as concrete forms; building frameworks, including partitions, joists, studding, and rafters; wood stairways, window and door frames, and hardwood floors. May also install cabinets, siding, drywall and batt or roll insulation. Include brattice builders who build doors or brattices (ventilation walls or partitions) in underground passageways to control the proper circulation of air through the passageways and to the working places.

Hourly Wages: $11.24 - $31.70

Yearly Wages: $23,400.00 - $65,900.00

Lay and install carpet from rolls or blocks on floors. Install padding and trim flooring materials. Exclude "Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles".

Hourly Wages: $9.88 - $32.75

Yearly Wages: $20,600.00 - $68,100.00

Collect, analyze, and interpret geographic information provided by geodetic surveys, aerial photographs, and satellite data. Research, study, and prepare maps and other spatial data in digital or graphic form for legal, social, political, educational, and design purposes. May work with Geographic Information Systems (GIS). May design and evaluate algorithms, data structures, and user interfaces for GIS and mapping systems.

Hourly Wages: $15.57 - $39.92

Yearly Wages: $32,400.00 - $83,000.00

Receive and disburse money in establishments other than financial institutions. Usually involves use of electronic scanners, cash registers, or related equipment. Often involved in processing credit or debit card transactions and validating checks.

Hourly Wages: $6.58 - $11.83

Yearly Wages: $13,700.00 - $24,600.00

Smooth and finish surfaces of poured concrete, such as floors, walks, sidewalks, roads, or curbs using a variety of hand and power tools. Align forms for sidewalks, curbs, or gutters; patch voids; use saws to cut expansion joints. Classify installers of mortarless segmental concrete masonry wall units in "Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers.

Hourly Wages: $10.57 - $28.56

Yearly Wages: $22,000.00 - $59,400.00

Direct the preparation, seasoning, and cooking of salads, soups, fish, meats, vegetables, desserts, or other foods. May plan and price menu items, order supplies, and keep records and accounts. May participate in cooking.

Hourly Wages: $10.37 - $31.04

Yearly Wages: $21,600.00 - $64,600.00

Design chemical plant equipment and devise processes for manufacturing chemicals and products, such as gasoline, synthetic rubber, plastics, detergents, cement, paper, and pulp, by applying principles and technology of chemistry, physics, and engineering.

Hourly Wages: $25.03 - $59.14

Yearly Wages: $52,100.00 - $123,000.00

Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for purposes, such as research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Hourly Wages: $12.20 - $30.09

Yearly Wages: $25,400.00 - $62,600.00

Teach courses pertaining to the chemical and physical properties and compositional changes of substances. Work may include instruction in the methods of qualitative and quantitative chemical analysis. Include both teachers primarily engaged in teaching, and those who do a combination of both teaching and research. Exclude "Biological Science Teachers, Postsecondary" who teach biochemistry.

Hourly Wages: $37,800.00 - $122,100.00

Yearly Wages: $36,000.00 - $85,400.00

Conduct qualitative and quantitative chemical analyses or chemical experiments in laboratories for quality or process control or to develop new products or knowledge. Exclude "Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers" and "Biochemists and Biophysicists".

Hourly Wages: $17.70 - $52.22

Yearly Wages: $36,800.00 - $108,600.00

Determine and formulate policies and provide the overall direction of companies or private and public sector organizations within the guidelines set up by a board of directors or similar governing body. Plan, direct, or coordinate operational activities at the highest level of management with the help of subordinate executives and staff managers.

Hourly Wages: $31.02 - $70.01

Yearly Wages: $64,500.00 - $145,600.00

Attend to children at schools, businesses, private households, and child care institutions. Perform a variety of tasks, such as dressing, feeding, bathing, and overseeing play. Exclude "Preschool Teachers" and "Teacher Assistants".

Hourly Wages: $6.70 - $13.56

Yearly Wages: $13,900.00 - $28,200.00

Provide social services and assistance to improve the social and psychological functioning of children and their families and to maximize the family well-being and the academic functioning of children. May assist single parents, arrange adoptions, and find foster homes for abandoned or abused children. In schools, they address such problems as teenage pregnancy, misbehavior, and truancy. May also advise teachers on how to deal with problem children.

Hourly Wages: $12.10 - $31.06

Yearly Wages: $25,200.00 - $64,600.00

Adjust spinal column and other articulations of the body to correct abnormalities of the human body believed to be caused by interference with the nervous system. Examine patient to determine nature and extent of disorder. Manipulate spine or other involved area. May utilize supplementary measures, such as exercise, rest, water, light, heat, and nutritional therapy.

Hourly Wages: $15.64 - $70.01

Yearly Wages: $32,500.00 - $145,600.00

Create and teach dance. May direct and stage presentations.

Hourly Wages: $7.99 - $31.44

Yearly Wages: $16,600.00 - $65,400.00

Apply theory and principles of civil engineering in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of structures and facilities under the direction of engineering staff or physical scientists.

Hourly Wages: $12.21 - $31.26

Yearly Wages: $25,400.00 - $65,000.00

Perform engineering duties in planning, designing, and overseeing construction and maintenance of building structures, and facilities, such as roads, railroads, airports, bridges, harbors, channels, dams, irrigation projects, pipelines, power plants, water and sewage systems, and waste disposal units. Include architectural, structural, traffic, ocean, and geo-technical engineers. Exclude "Hydrologists".

Hourly Wages: $22.32 - $52.45

Yearly Wages: $46,400.00 - $109,100.00