Visualized: Every State’s Most Common Job in 1998 vs. 2024

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Key Takeaways

  • Retail salesperson (39 states) and cashiers (7) were the most common job categories by state back in 1998.
  • In 2024, it’s fast food worker (15 states) and retail salesperson (11).
  • Home health aides are a new popular job category, the most common in 10 states.

1998 was a long time ago.

The first Matrix movie hadn’t yet released, the internet was still the purview of the Western world, and e-commerce giant Amazon was only five years old.

For obvious reasons, the U.S. labor market back then was different—but exactly how different?

This graphic compares the most common jobs in each U.S. state between 1998 to 2024, measured by the number of people employed in each category. Data for this visualization comes from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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