How many Mechanical Engineers, Civil Engineers, Electrical Engineers,
Chemical Engineers, and Physicists are employed in the USA

Hello.

The best source for this kind of data of is U.S. Government's Bureau
of Labor Statistics:

"Mechanical engineers held about 215,000 jobs in 2002."
http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos033.htm

"Civil engineers held about 228,000 jobs in 2002"
http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos030.htm

"Electrical and electronics engineers held about 292,000 jobs in 2002"
http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos031.htm

"Chemical engineers held about 33,000 jobs in 2002. "
http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos029.htm

"Physicists and astronomers held about 14,000 jobs in 2002. Jobs for
astronomers accounted for only 7 percent of the total."
http://stats.bls.gov/oco/ocos052.htm
(Subtracting out the 7% astronomers, figure about 13,000 non-astronomer physicists)

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I hope this helps.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 17 Jul 2004 14:08 PDT

Sorry for that typo in the first sentence. It should have read:

"The best source for this kind of data is the U.S. Government's Bureau
of Labor Statistics"