This is the rare mapporn post that 1) I haven’t seen before and 2) actually looks accurate. This sub is usually garbage.
Logging in Oregon and Maine? Aircraft work in Washington with Boeing? Oil in North Dakota and Oklahoma? Food scientists in Minnesota and Physicists in New Mexico? This all looks plausible.
mazon-jar on
Dalton, Georgia: The Carpet Capital of the World
Valcyor on
Given that Washington and Colorado have disproportionately high amounts of aerospace-related jobs (for obvious reasons), I’m actually surprised Alabama doesn’t.
Also, Mississippi, wtf? That’s a job?
Unofficial_Salt_Dan on
Is there a legend? What do these colors mean?
Where is this data from?
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dinglepumpkin on
College Resident Advisors in SD?
Seagrams7ssu on
Subway operator in Md? Baltimore has one crappy subway line that no one uses, and the ass end of three DC metro lines…
MomTRex on
My heart just broke with this map.
I live in MA and Trump has destroyed biotech research in both academia and the private sector. Hope y’all have a cure for cancer because Moderna was working on a vaccine for pancreatic CA but with the cuts to everything….
laminateswitch on
Depending on how this data collected this could skew greatly from reality. For example Indiana is home to Purdue university which uses the nickname Boilermakers for students, alumni, and athletics. While I don’t doubt that there may be a large number of people employed as boilermakers this could easily be the result of some misinterpreted results from whatever data collection was used.
foxandflowers19 on
Indiana tracks, but just for half the state.
foley23 on
I work in Survey Research in PA… Within like a 3 mile radius of my house there’s like 8 other companies that do it as well, and that’s just 2 towns. It’s everywhere around here outside Philadelphia.
Score-Emergency on
Another map without New Zealand 🇳🇿
Bratmon on
This seems… too good. Like, I would expect actual data would be weird/surprising at least once. This feels like someone sat down and made up clever ideas for each state.
SimmentalTheCow on
Lmao New Jersey
dtarias on
Norman Borlaug being from Iowa and doing his research in Minnesota checks out
It uses Bureau of Labor Statistics data from May 2013, and divides the frequency of each occupation in the state by the overall frequency in the US, and takes the maximum among these.
phlegelhorn on
I’ll bite. South Carolina, what’s a tire builder? A tire factory worker?
Mac-A-Saurus on
Hell yeah Indiana! Boiler Up!
ToffeeTuner on
Having spent time in Wisconsin, I assume the most of the foundry caster jobs are from Kohler. Could be some others but I know they’re a huge employer there.
LegSpecialist1781 on
You ok up there, South Dakota?
Sarcastic_Backpack on
Disproportionately popular compared to what? The national average? Some other metric?
West-Lengthiness-444 on
I thought for sure Minnesota would be daycare owners/workers.
ComprehensiveSoft27 on
Physicists in New Mexico: Just what are you working on now?
Mr_Epitome on
Groundskeepers in IL is wild!
PossyRiot on
How is Missouri real?
DirtyPelicanx on
Honestly this seems like it tracks
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This is the rare mapporn post that 1) I haven’t seen before and 2) actually looks accurate. This sub is usually garbage.
Logging in Oregon and Maine? Aircraft work in Washington with Boeing? Oil in North Dakota and Oklahoma? Food scientists in Minnesota and Physicists in New Mexico? This all looks plausible.
Dalton, Georgia: The Carpet Capital of the World
Given that Washington and Colorado have disproportionately high amounts of aerospace-related jobs (for obvious reasons), I’m actually surprised Alabama doesn’t.
Also, Mississippi, wtf? That’s a job?
Is there a legend? What do these colors mean?
Where is this data from?

College Resident Advisors in SD?
Subway operator in Md? Baltimore has one crappy subway line that no one uses, and the ass end of three DC metro lines…
My heart just broke with this map.
I live in MA and Trump has destroyed biotech research in both academia and the private sector. Hope y’all have a cure for cancer because Moderna was working on a vaccine for pancreatic CA but with the cuts to everything….
Depending on how this data collected this could skew greatly from reality. For example Indiana is home to Purdue university which uses the nickname Boilermakers for students, alumni, and athletics. While I don’t doubt that there may be a large number of people employed as boilermakers this could easily be the result of some misinterpreted results from whatever data collection was used.
Indiana tracks, but just for half the state.
I work in Survey Research in PA… Within like a 3 mile radius of my house there’s like 8 other companies that do it as well, and that’s just 2 towns. It’s everywhere around here outside Philadelphia.
Another map without New Zealand 🇳🇿
This seems… too good. Like, I would expect actual data would be weird/surprising at least once. This feels like someone sat down and made up clever ideas for each state.
Lmao New Jersey
Norman Borlaug being from Iowa and doing his research in Minnesota checks out
For anyone who is asking for a source, it’s here:
[https://www.businessinsider.com/most-popular-job-by-state-map-2014-4](https://www.businessinsider.com/most-popular-job-by-state-map-2014-4)
It uses Bureau of Labor Statistics data from May 2013, and divides the frequency of each occupation in the state by the overall frequency in the US, and takes the maximum among these.
I’ll bite. South Carolina, what’s a tire builder? A tire factory worker?
Hell yeah Indiana! Boiler Up!
Having spent time in Wisconsin, I assume the most of the foundry caster jobs are from Kohler. Could be some others but I know they’re a huge employer there.
You ok up there, South Dakota?
Disproportionately popular compared to what? The national average? Some other metric?
I thought for sure Minnesota would be daycare owners/workers.
Physicists in New Mexico: Just what are you working on now?
Groundskeepers in IL is wild!
How is Missouri real?
Honestly this seems like it tracks