Career Interest Test

CEI: 15 occupations with an interest code starting with CEI

A Holland code is one to three letters in order of strength. Conventional · Enterprising · Investigative — that is what CEI stands for here. Below are the O*NET occupations whose Interest High-Point (IH) code begins with these letters.

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Directions in this code
CConventional·EEnterprising·IInvestigative
Occupations with this code
15
Occupations shown
All 15; ordered by U.S. employment
Median wage on this page (lowest – highest)
15 of 15 occupations with a published median ($51,220 – $175,140)

The range covers only the occupations shown on this page.

O*NET Database 31.0 (retrieved 2026-09-15); BLS OES May 2025 release (retrieved 2026-09-15).

Occupations with this code

Ordered by U.S. employment, largest first. The order means nothing else: it is not a recommendation, and this page does not know your interests.

  • Accountants and Auditors

    O*NET-SOC code
    13-2011.00
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $83,680
    U.S. employment
    1,449,500
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Computer and Information Systems Managers

    O*NET-SOC code
    11-3021.00
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $175,140
    U.S. employment
    670,570
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Regulatory Affairs Specialists

    O*NET-SOC code
    13-1041.07
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $80,730
    U.S. employment
    417,070
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Financial and Investment Analysts

    O*NET-SOC code
    13-2051.00
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $102,740
    U.S. employment
    361,980
    Typical education
  • Claims Adjusters, Examiners, and Investigators

    O*NET-SOC code
    13-1031.00
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $78,000
    U.S. employment
    324,230
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Logisticians

    O*NET-SOC code
    13-1081.00
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $82,320
    U.S. employment
    251,040
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Logistics Analysts

    O*NET-SOC code
    13-1081.02
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $82,320
    U.S. employment
    251,040
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Quality Control Systems Managers

    O*NET-SOC code
    11-3051.01
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $126,060
    U.S. employment
    246,250
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Insurance Underwriters

    O*NET-SOC code
    13-2053.00
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $81,370
    U.S. employment
    105,420
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Financial Examiners

    O*NET-SOC code
    13-2061.00
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $94,160
    U.S. employment
    67,830
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Credit Analysts

    O*NET-SOC code
    13-2041.00
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $83,510
    U.S. employment
    64,390
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Budget Analysts

    O*NET-SOC code
    13-2031.00
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $91,640
    U.S. employment
    47,160
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Private Detectives and Investigators

    O*NET-SOC code
    33-9021.00
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $51,220
    U.S. employment
    35,580
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers

    O*NET-SOC code
    23-1021.00
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $117,860
    U.S. employment
    16,370
    Typical education
    Doctorate
  • Judicial Law Clerks

    O*NET-SOC code
    23-1012.00
    Its Holland code
    CEI
    U.S. median wage
    $64,920
    U.S. employment
    13,290
    Typical education
    Doctorate

The table lists all 15 occupations with this code.

Median wage is the employee annual median from BLS OES; it excludes self-employed workers and owners. “Not published” means BLS does not publish a median for that occupation — it is not zero.

“—” means O*NET does not publish a typical education level for that occupation: 1 of the 15 rows on this page show “—”, and in O*NET Database 31.0 this field does not cover every occupation. Where a level is given, it is the most common category in O*NET's education data, translated.

Wages and employment come from BLS OES, which publishes them by 6-digit SOC occupation. Several O*NET occupations can sit under one SOC code and share the same estimates — that is why some rows show identical wages and employment.

What these occupations mean

Every O*NET occupation carries an interest profile: six shares, one per RIASEC direction. O*NET turns that profile into the occupation's Interest High-Point (IH) code with the variable high-point rule: take the directions whose share is above .17, highest first, up to three (Rounds et al., 1999; Step 3 of the 2023 O*NET report “Using Machine Learning to Develop Occupational Interest Profiles and High-Point Codes”). That is why a code can have one, two or three letters. This page reports the codes as O*NET published them — the list describes these occupations, not you.

Your own code is generated by this product from your questionnaire scores, with a different rule: the three highest directions, with ties broken in a fixed order. The two sides also measure different things — the questionnaire asks what you like doing, while an occupation profile measures how much of that interest content the work involves. No study equates the two.

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Also published for this prefix: CE

Same length, same first letter

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