Chief Executives
Tasks Include:
- Direct or coordinate an organization's financial or budget activities to fund operations, maximize investments, or increase efficiency.
- Confer with board members, organization officials, or staff members to discuss issues, coordinate activities, or resolve problems.
- Analyze operations to evaluate performance of a company or its staff in meeting objectives or to determine areas of potential cost reduction, program improvement, or policy change.
- Direct, plan, or implement policies, objectives, or activities of organizations or businesses to ensure continuing operations, to maximize returns on investments, or to increase productivity.
- Prepare budgets for approval, including those for funding or implementation of programs.
- Direct or coordinate activities of businesses or departments concerned with production, pricing, sales, or distribution of products.
- Negotiate or approve contracts or agreements with suppliers, distributors, federal or state agencies, or other organizational entities.
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The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™; US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Projections Quick View:
Virginia: -3.9%
National: -7.3%
Education
Master's Degree
Job Zone:
Five: Extensive Preparation Needed
Income Range:
Highest ($50,000 and up)
Median Earnings:
National
$189,520.00
State
$235,060.00
Regional
Chief Executives
Description
Career Cluster: | Business, Management & Administration |
Determine and formulate policies and provide overall direction of companies or private and public sector organizations within 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.
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Chief Executives
Education
Required Level of Education
- Master's Degree = 45.91%
- Bachelor's Degree = 32.29%
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 5.15%
- Doctoral Degree = 4.92%
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 4.46%
- Post-Master's Certificate - awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Master's degree but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees at the doctoral level. = 3.94%
- Post-Doctoral Training = 2.78%
- First Professional Degree - awarded for completion of a program that: requires at least 2 years of college work before entrance into the program, includes a total of at least 6 academic years of work to complete, and provides all remaining academic requirements to begin practice in a profession. = 0.55%
Related Work Experience
- Over 10 years = 68.24%
- Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years = 15.09%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 9.69%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 5.87%
- Over 8 years, up to and including 10 years = 1.11%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- Over 10 years = 34.32%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 16.79%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 15.92%
- None = 10.22%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 6.66%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 6.62%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 5.15%
- Up to and including 1 month = 3.82%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 0.52%
On-the-Job Training
- Over 10 years = 35.25%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 13.38%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 12.03%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 9.67%
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 8.50%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 6.68%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 5.31%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 4.60%
- None or short demonstration = 4.57%
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Chief Executives
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Direct or coordinate an organization's financial or budget activities to fund operations, maximize investments, or increase efficiency.
- Confer with board members, organization officials, or staff members to discuss issues, coordinate activities, or resolve problems.
- Analyze operations to evaluate performance of a company or its staff in meeting objectives or to determine areas of potential cost reduction, program improvement, or policy change.
- Direct, plan, or implement policies, objectives, or activities of organizations or businesses to ensure continuing operations, to maximize returns on investments, or to increase productivity.
- Prepare budgets for approval, including those for funding or implementation of programs.
- Direct or coordinate activities of businesses or departments concerned with production, pricing, sales, or distribution of products.
- Negotiate or approve contracts or agreements with suppliers, distributors, federal or state agencies, or other organizational entities.
- Review reports submitted by staff members to recommend approval or to suggest changes.
- Appoint department heads or managers and assign or delegate responsibilities to them.
- Direct human resources activities, including the approval of human resource plans or activities, the selection of directors or other high-level staff, or establishment or organization of major departments.
- Preside over, or serve on, boards of directors, management committees, or other governing boards.
- Prepare or present reports concerning activities, expenses, budgets, government statutes or rulings, or other items affecting businesses or program services.
- Establish departmental responsibilities and coordinate functions among departments and sites.
- Implement corrective action plans to solve organizational or departmental problems.
- Coordinate the development or implementation of budgetary control systems, recordkeeping systems, or other administrative control processes.
- Deliver speeches, write articles, or present information at meetings or conventions to promote services, exchange ideas, or accomplish objectives.
- Serve as liaisons between organizations, shareholders, and outside organizations.
- Interpret and explain policies, rules, regulations, or laws to organizations, government or corporate officials, or individuals.
- Attend and participate in meetings of municipal councils or council committees.
- Organize or approve promotional campaigns.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Direct non-merchandising departments, such as advertising, purchasing, credit, or accounting.
- Nominate citizens to boards or commissions.
- Make presentations to legislative or other government committees regarding policies, programs, or budgets.
- Refer major policy matters to elected representatives for final decisions.
- Administer programs for selection of sites, construction of buildings, or provision of equipment or supplies.
- Direct or coordinate activities of businesses involved with buying or selling investment products or financial services.
- Direct or conduct studies or research on issues affecting areas of responsibility.
- Conduct or direct investigations or hearings to resolve complaints or violations of laws, or testify at such hearings.
- Represent organizations or promote their objectives at official functions, or delegate representatives to do so.
- Prepare bylaws approved by elected officials, and ensure that bylaws are enforced.
- Review and analyze legislation, laws, or public policy and recommend changes to promote or support interests of the general population or special groups.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Chief Executives
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Calculators or accessories (10-key calculators)
- Desktop computers
- Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
- Personal computers
- Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers (Personal digital assistants PDA)
- Mobile phones (Smartphones)
- High capacity removable media drives (Universal serial bus USB flash drives)
Technologies Include:
- Accounting software
- Sage Peachtree software
- Intuit QuickBooks software
- Analytical or scientific software
- Lyris HQ Web-Analytics Solution
- Online advertising reporting software
- Nedstat Sitestat
- Customer relationship management CRM software
- Oracle Siebel Server Sync
- Data base reporting software
- Database software (reporting feature)
- Data base user interface and query software
- AdSense Tracker
- Database software (user interface and query feature)
- Databox software
- Microsoft Access
- Structured query language SQL
- Desktop publishing software
- Microsoft Publisher
- Electronic mail software
- Email software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Listserv software
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Oracle PeopleSoft
- SAP software
- Microsoft Dynamics AX
- Microsoft Great Plains software
- Oracle E-Business Suite
- Financial analysis software
- Microsoft FRx
- Graphics or photo imaging software
- Graphic presentation software
- Human resources software
- Infor SSA Human Capital Management
- Human resource information system HRIS software
- Halogen ePraisal
- Halogen e360
- Internet browser software
- Web browser software
- Office suite software
- Microsoft Office software
- Presentation software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Project management software
- Microsoft Advertising Atlas Search
- Microsoft Project
- HCSS HeavyJob
- HCSS HeavyBid
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Time accounting software
- Exact Software Macola ES Labor Performance
- Norchard Solutions Succession Wizard
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
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Chief Executives
Special Requirements
Experience: Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience.
Education: A bachelor's degree is the minimum formal education required for these occupations. However, many also require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).
Training: Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: Virginia Career VIEW Research. (Using onet28)
Chief Executives
Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
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94.50 | Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
87.00 | Personnel and Human Resources | Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems. |
85.25 | English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
84.75 | Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
76.00 | Economics and Accounting | Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data. |
72.00 | Public Safety and Security | Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions. |
70.50 | Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
70.25 | Sales and Marketing | Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems. |
65.00 | Mathematics | Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications. |
63.00 | Education and Training | Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects. |
62.00 | Law and Government | Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process. |
52.25 | Psychology | Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders. |
51.25 | Engineering and Technology | Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services. |
50.50 | Communications and Media | Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Chief Executives
Skills
% | Subject | Description |
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93.75 | Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
84.50 | Complex Problem Solving | Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions. |
84.50 | Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
81.25 | Management of Personnel Resources | Motivating, developing, and directing people as they work, identifying the best people for the job. |
81.25 | Systems Evaluation | Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system. |
81.25 | Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
81.25 | Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
81.25 | Management of Financial Resources | Determining how money will be spent to get the work done, and accounting for these expenditures. |
78.00 | Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. |
78.00 | Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
78.00 | Systems Analysis | Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes. |
78.00 | Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
78.00 | Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. |
75.00 | Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
75.00 | Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
75.00 | Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
75.00 | Persuasion | Persuading others to change their minds or behavior. |
75.00 | Management of Material Resources | Obtaining and seeing to the appropriate use of equipment, facilities, and materials needed to do certain work. |
68.75 | Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
59.50 | Instructing | Teaching others how to do something. |
56.25 | Mathematics | Using mathematics to solve problems. |
53.00 | Learning Strategies | Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things. |
53.00 | Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. |
53.00 | Operations Analysis | Analyzing needs and product requirements to create a design. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Chief Executives
Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
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90.50 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
87.50 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
81.25 | Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
81.25 | Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
78.00 | Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
78.00 | Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
75.00 | Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. |
75.00 | Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
75.00 | Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
75.00 | Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
72.00 | Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). |
68.75 | Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. |
65.50 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
62.50 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
56.25 | Mathematical Reasoning | The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem. |
56.25 | Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
53.00 | Number Facility | The ability to add, subtract, multiply, or divide quickly and correctly. |
50.00 | Speed of Closure | The ability to quickly make sense of, combine, and organize information into meaningful patterns. |
50.00 | Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
50.00 | Visualization | The ability to imagine how something will look after it is moved around or when its parts are moved or rearranged. |
50.00 | Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
50.00 | Far Vision | The ability to see details at a distance. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Chief Executives
Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
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96.25 | Making Decisions and Solving Problems | Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
95.00 | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships | Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
93.75 | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates | Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
93.50 | Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates | Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance. |
92.75 | Coaching and Developing Others | Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills. |
90.75 | Developing and Building Teams | Encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation among team members. |
89.25 | Developing Objectives and Strategies | Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them. |
89.00 | Getting Information | Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
88.75 | Communicating with People Outside the Organization | Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
88.25 | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work | Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
87.25 | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards | Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
86.75 | Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others | Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
86.50 | Processing Information | Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
84.50 | Analyzing Data or Information | Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts. |
83.00 | Thinking Creatively | Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
82.75 | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge | Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
81.25 | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings | Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
80.75 | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events | Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
79.50 | Judging the Qualities of Objects, Services, or People | Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people. |
79.25 | Working with Computers | Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
78.75 | Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others | Translating or explaining what information means and how it can be used. |
77.75 | Monitoring and Controlling Resources | Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money. |
77.50 | Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others | Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. |
75.50 | Performing Administrative Activities | Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork. |
75.25 | Training and Teaching Others | Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others. |
73.75 | Providing Consultation and Advice to Others | Providing guidance and expert advice to management or other groups on technical, systems-, or process-related topics. |
72.50 | Performing for or Working Directly with the Public | Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
70.75 | Scheduling Work and Activities | Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
70.25 | Selling or Influencing Others | Convincing others to buy merchandise/goods or to otherwise change their minds or actions. |
69.50 | Staffing Organizational Units | Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization. |
65.00 | Documenting/Recording Information | Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
57.75 | Assisting and Caring for Others | Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients. |
56.50 | Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information | Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity. |
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Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
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99.25 | Leadership | Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. |
96.25 | Initiative | Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
94.00 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
92.50 | Analytical Thinking | Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. |
92.25 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
92.25 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
90.75 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
89.25 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
87.50 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
86.00 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
85.75 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
83.75 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
80.25 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
78.25 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
76.25 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
73.75 | Social Orientation | Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Chief Executives
Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
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100.00 | Recognition | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer advancement, potential for leadership, and are often considered prestigious. Corresponding needs are Advancement, Authority, Recognition and Social Status. |
100.00 | Independence | Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to work on their own and make decisions. Corresponding needs are Creativity, Responsibility and Autonomy. |
88.83 | Achievement | Occupations that satisfy this work value are results oriented and allow employees to use their strongest abilities, giving them a feeling of accomplishment. Corresponding needs are Ability Utilization and Achievement. |
88.83 | Working Conditions | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer job security and good working conditions. Corresponding needs are Activity, Compensation, Independence, Security, Variety and Working Conditions. |
72.17 | Support | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
66.67 | Relationships | Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
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99.40 | Electronic Mail | How often do you use electronic mail in this job? |
99.00 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
98.40 | Telephone | How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
98.00 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
96.40 | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? |
96.00 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
95.00 | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? |
94.00 | Responsibility for Outcomes and Results | How responsible is the worker for work outcomes and results of other workers? |
91.80 | Frequency of Decision Making | How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
91.60 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
89.40 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
87.20 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
86.60 | Deal With External Customers | How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? |
85.80 | Coordinate or Lead Others | How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? |
83.60 | Spend Time Sitting | How much does this job require sitting? |
83.20 | Responsible for Others' Health and Safety | How much responsibility is there for the health and safety of others in this job? |
83.20 | Time Pressure | How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
82.80 | Letters and Memos | How often does the job require written letters and memos? |
77.20 | Frequency of Conflict Situations | How often are there conflict situations the employee has to face in this job? |
71.40 | Level of Competition | To what extent does this job require the worker to compete or to be aware of competitive pressures? |
67.40 | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks | How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? |
64.80 | Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People | How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements? |
62.60 | In an Enclosed Vehicle or Equipment | How often does this job require working in a closed vehicle or equipment (e.g., car)? |
61.40 | Public Speaking | How often do you have to perform public speaking in this job? |
60.40 | Consequence of Error | How serious would the result usually be if the worker made a mistake that was not readily correctable? |
53.40 | Physical Proximity | To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
51.00 | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | How much does this job require making repetitive motions? |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Chief Executives
Job Zone Five: Extensive Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- Extensive skill, knowledge, and experience are needed for these occupations. Many require more than five years of experience. For example, surgeons must complete four years of college and an additional five to seven years of specialized medical training to be able to do their job.
- Job Training
- Employees may need some on-the-job training, but most of these occupations assume that the person will already have the required skills, knowledge, work-related experience, and/or training.
- Examples
- These occupations often involve coordinating, training, supervising, or managing the activities of others to accomplish goals. Very advanced communication and organizational skills are required. Examples include pharmacists, lawyers, astronomers, biologists, clergy, physician assistants, and veterinarians.
- Education
- Most of these occupations require graduate school. For example, they may require a master's degree, and some require a Ph.D., M.D., or J.D. (law degree).
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Chief Executives
Earnings Benefits*
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $74,920.00 | $189,520.00 | No Data |
Virginia | $102,360.00 | $235,060.00 | No Data |
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
Alexandria/Arlington | $162,012.03 | No Data | No Data |
Bay Consortium | $107,147.94 | $202,452.32 | $290,918.57 |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | $104,674.80 | $207,758.62 | $314,690.35 |
Central VA/Region2000 | $97,899.90 | $218,743.47 | $329,153.93 |
Crater Area | $109,706.76 | $202,098.43 | $325,517.13 |
Greater Peninsula | $140,604.27 | No Data | No Data |
Hampton Roads | $132,665.72 | No Data | No Data |
New River/Mt. Rogers | $113,295.63 | $206,529.69 | $448,066.91 |
Northern Virginia | $146,320.55 | No Data | No Data |
Piedmont Workforce | $106,657.39 | $229,133.75 | $331,830.03 |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | $55,913.52 | $177,400.61 | $475,121.61 |
Southwestern Virginia | $60,076.56 | $172,682.77 | $329,558.81 |
West Piedmont | $71,872.20 | $169,512.04 | $365,252.69 |
Western Virginia | $109,108.10 | $209,327.16 | $473,365.42 |
* Earnings Calculations:
Regional Earnings:
Entry = Annual mean of the lower 1/3 wage distribution;
Experienced = Annual mean of the upper 2/3 wage distribution.
National and State Earnings:
Entry = Annual 10th percentile wage;
Experienced = Annual 75th percentile wage.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
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Employment Projections
Current | Projected | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 283,900 | 263,300 | -7.3% |
Virginia | 9,124 | 8,767 | -3.9% |
Region | Current* | Projected | % Change |
Alexandria/Arlington | 1,233 | 1,201 | -2.6% |
Bay Consortium | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Central VA/Region2000 | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Crater Area | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Greater Peninsula | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Hampton Roads | No Data | No Data | No Data |
New River/Mt. Rogers | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Northern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Piedmont Workforce | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Western Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
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