Planning and performing government functions at the local, state and federal levels, including governance, national security, foreign service, planning, revenue and taxation, and regulations.

Direct activities such as autopsies, pathological and toxicological analyses, and inquests relating to the investigation of deaths occurring within a legal jurisdiction to determine cause of death or to fix responsibility for accidental, violent, or unexplained deaths.

Coroners

Inspect and investigate sources of pollution to protect the public and environment and ensure conformance with Federal, State, and local regulations and ordinances.

Environmental Compliance Inspectors

Monitor and evaluate compliance with equal opportunity laws, guidelines, and policies to ensure that employment practices and contracting arrangements give equal opportunity without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability.

Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers

Enforce or ensure compliance with laws and regulations governing financial and securities institutions and financial and real estate transactions. May examine, verify, or authenticate records.

Financial Examiners

Inspect equipment or goods in connection with the safe transport of cargo or people. Includes rail transportation inspectors, such as freight inspectors, rail inspectors, and other inspectors of transportation vehicles not elsewhere classified.

Transportation Inspectors

Freight and Cargo Inspectors

Monitor the development and implementation of government plans and policies, as well as processing planning and policy proposals, and performing inspections of planning procedures.

Compliance Officers

Government Planning Inspectors

Investigate or inspect government property to ensure compliance with contract agreements and government regulations.

Government Property Inspectors and Investigators

Investigate and handle human rights violations, as well as develop plans to reduce violations and to ensure compliance to human rights legislation. Examine information and interview victims and perpetrators, and communicate with organizations involved with human rights activities. Provide administration support for human rights policies.

Human Rights Officers

Develop, introduce, or enact laws and statutes at the local, tribal, state, or federal level. Includes only workers in elected positions.

Legislators

Examine, evaluate, and investigate eligibility for, conformity with, or liability under licenses or permits.

Licensing Examiners and Inspectors

Provide analysis and advice to senior officials with regards to resource allocation, policy and regulatory reform, financial management, legislative and business improvement issues.

Regulatory Affairs Specialists

Policy Advisors

Coordinate and document internal regulatory processes, such as internal audits, inspections, license renewals, or registrations. May compile and prepare materials for submission to regulatory agencies.

Inspect and monitor transportation equipment, vehicles, or systems to ensure compliance with regulations and safety standards.

Transportation Vehicle, Equipment and Systems Inspectors, Except Aviation

Transportation Vehicle, Equipment and Systems Inspectors

Prepare, plan, and implement safe¬†waste disposal¬†strategies. Manage budgets and ensure that all¬†waste disposal¬†activities in their jurisdiction comply with¬†environmental¬†laws and regulations.

Waste Management Officers

Governance

Perform in-flight duties to ensure the successful completion of combat, reconnaissance, transport, and search and rescue missions. Operate and maintain aircraft communications and detection equipment, aircraft weapons, defensive systems, in-flight refueling systems and conduct pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight inspections. Conduct cargo and personnel drops.

Air Crew Members

Direct and perform in-flight duties to ensure the successful completion of combat, reconnaissance, transport, and search and rescue missions. Lead the operation and maintenance of aircraft communications and detection equipment, aircraft weapons, defensive systems, in-flight refueling systems and supervise pre-flight, in-flight, and post-flight inspections. Direct cargo and personnel drops.

Air Crew Officers

Direct and plan the operation and maintenance of catapults, arresting gear, and associated mechanical, hydraulic, and control systems involved primarily in aircraft carrier takeoff and landing operations.

Aircraft Launch and Recovery Officers

Operate and maintain catapults, arresting gear, and associated mechanical, hydraulic, and control systems involved primarily in aircraft carrier takeoff and landing operations. Install, maintain and test visual landing aids, launch and recovery equipment and maintain logs of launches, recoveries and equipment maintenance.

Aircraft Launch and Recovery Specialists

Drive armored vehicles like tanks, light armor, and amphibious assault vehicles during combat situations on land or in aquatic environments. Operate and maintain associated targeting and firing or communications and navigation systems. Transport personnel and equipment in combat environments.

Armored Assault Vehicle Crew Members

Direct the operation of tanks, light armor, and amphibious assault vehicle units during combat situations on land or in aquatic environments. Supervise the operation and maintenance of associated targeting and firing or communications and navigation systems. Formulate and implement battle plans. Direct the transport of personnel and equipment during combat.

Armored Assault Vehicle Officers

Target, fire, and maintain weapons and related equipment used to destroy enemy positions, aircraft, and vessels. Inspect, test and store ammunition, missiles and torpedoes. Includes field, air defense and naval artillery.

Artillery and Missile Crew Members

Manage personnel and weapons operations to destroy enemy positions, aircraft, and vessels. Plan and coordinate the tactical deployment of field artillery and air defense artillery missile systems units. Target and launch intercontinental ballistic missiles. Direct the secure storage, handling and maintenance of nuclear munitions, components and weapon systems.

Artillery and Missile Officers

Manage the operation of communications, detection, and weapons systems essential for controlling air, ground, and naval operations.

Command and Control Center Officers

Operate and monitor communications, detection, and weapons systems essential for controlling air, ground, and naval operations.

Command and Control Center Specialists

Operate weapons and equipment in ground combat operations. Locate, construct, and camouflage infantry positions and equipment; evaluate terrain and record topographical information; operate and maintain field communications equipment; assess need for and direct supporting fire; place explosives and perform minesweeping activities on land; and participate in basic reconnaissance operations.

Infantry

Direct, train, and lead infantry units in ground combat operations. Direct deployment of infantry weapons, vehicles, and equipment; direct location, construction, and camouflage of infantry positions and equipment; manage field communications operations; coordinate with armor, artillery, and air support units; perform strategic and tactical planning, including battle plan development; and lead basic reconnaissance operations.

Infantry Officers

Collect military intelligence, operate communications equipment, carry out response and recovery operations, identify adversaries, secure ordnance, operate radar and sonar equipment, or process and intercept communication signals.

Military Enlisted Tactical Operations and Air/Weapons Specialists and Crew Members, All Other

Military Enlisted Tactical Operations, Air/Weapons Specialists and Crew Members

Implement unconventional operations by air, land, or sea during combat or peacetime as members of elite teams. Activities include offensive raids, demolitions, reconnaissance, search and rescue, and counterterrorism. May have specialized training in swimming, diving, parachuting, survival, emergency medicine, and foreign languages.

Special Forces

Lead elite teams that implement unconventional operations by air, land, or sea during combat or peacetime. Activities include offensive raids, demolitions, reconnaissance, search and rescue, and counterterrorism. May have specialized training in swimming, diving, parachuting, survival, emergency medicine, and foreign languages.

Special Forces Officers

Conduct screening of passengers, baggage, or cargo to ensure compliance with security regulations. May operate basic security equipment such as x-ray machines and hand wands at screening checkpoints.

Transportation Security Screeners

National Security

Apply principles and methods of bioinformatics to assist scientists in areas such as pharmaceuticals, medical technology, biotechnology, computational biology, proteomics, computer information science, biology and medical informatics. Apply bioinformatics tools to visualize, analyze, manipulate or interpret molecular data. May build and maintain databases for processing and analyzing genomic or other biological information.

Bioinformatics Technicians

Compile data from various sources, such as maps, reports, and field and file investigations, for use by city planner in making planning studies.

Urban and Regional Planners

City and Regional Planning Aides

Compile and compute data according to statistical formulas for use in statistical studies. May perform actuarial computations and compile charts and graphs for use by actuaries. Includes actuarial clerks.

Statistical Assistants

Develop comprehensive plans and programs for use of land and physical facilities of jurisdictions, such as towns, cities, counties, and metropolitan areas.

Planning

Perform clerical duties in court of law; prepare docket of cases to be called; secure information for judges; and contact witnesses, attorneys, and litigants to obtain information for court.

Court, Municipal, and License Clerks

Court Clerks

Determine eligibility of persons applying to receive assistance from government programs and agency resources, such as welfare, unemployment benefits, social security, and public housing.

Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs

Plan and direct disaster response or crisis management activities, provide disaster preparedness training, and prepare emergency plans and procedures for natural (e.g., hurricanes, floods, earthquakes), wartime, or technological (e.g., nuclear power plant emergencies or hazardous materials spills) disasters or hostage situations.

Emergency Management Directors

Issue licenses or permits to qualified applicants. Obtain necessary information, record data, advise applicants on requirements, collect fees, and issue licenses. May conduct oral, written, visual, or performance testing.

License Clerks

Draft agendas and bylaws for town or city council; record minutes of council meetings; answer official correspondence; keep fiscal records and accounts; and prepare reports on civic needs.

Municipal Clerks

Plan, direct, or coordinate operational, administrative, management, and supportive services of a post office, or coordinate activities of workers engaged in postal and related work in assigned post office.

Postmasters and Mail Superintendents

Public Management and Administration

Inspect agricultural commodities, processing equipment, and facilities, and fish and logging operations, to ensure compliance with regulations and laws governing health, quality, and safety.

Agricultural Inspectors

Inspect structures using engineering skills to determine structural soundness and compliance with specifications, building codes, and other regulations. Inspections may be general in nature or may be limited to a specific area, such as electrical systems or plumbing.

Construction and Building Inspectors

Visit healthcare facilities to ensure proper care is given to all patients in accordance with legal requirements. Ensure staff, processes, and equipment are compliant with operating requirements.

Occupational Health and Safety Specialists

Healthcare Inspectors

Review, evaluate, and analyze work environments and design programs and procedures to control, eliminate, and prevent disease or injury caused by chemical, physical, and biological agents or ergonomic factors. May conduct inspections and enforce adherence to laws and regulations governing the health and safety of individuals. May be employed in the public or private sector.

Collect data on work environments for analysis by occupational health and safety specialists. Implement and conduct evaluation of programs designed to limit chemical, physical, biological, and ergonomic risks to workers.

Occupational Health and Safety Technicians

Develop and implement strategies for the improvement of a community's healthcare policy. Advise governments on policy changes and identify problems in current healthcare policies. Provide administrative support for public health policies.

Public Health Policy Officers

Regulation

Appraise real property to determine its value for purchase, sales, investment, mortgage, or loan purposes.

Appraisers and Assessors of Real Estate

Appraisers, Real Estate

Perform professional accounting activities to ensure the company meets its legal reporting requirements with respect to national and state tax laws. Ensure compliance with and research complex federal and partnership tax matters.

Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents

Corporate Tax And Compliance Analysts

Determine tax liability or collect taxes from individuals or business firms according to prescribed laws and regulations.

Revenue and Taxation

About 1.6 million people work in civilian occupations in this cluster.

Civilian careers

There are currently approximately 1.3 million active-duty personnel in the U.S. Armed Forces, who work in more than 800 different occupations.

Armed forces careers

Increasing population in many areas, along with growing demand for public services, is fueling higher than average employment growth in this cluster over the next 10 years.

High demand

Regulatory and compliance careers are growing within this cluster, and impact large-scale public issues such as lending practices, or anti-corruption work in government.