Career Interest Test

RCE: 16 occupations with an interest code starting with RCE

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

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RRealistic·CConventional·EEnterprising
Occupations with this code
16
Occupations shown
All 16; ordered by U.S. employment
Median wage on this page (lowest – highest)
16 of 16 occupations with a published median ($30,890 – $232,140)

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.

  • Cooks, Restaurant

    O*NET-SOC code
    35-2014.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $37,390
    U.S. employment
    1,409,890
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Team Assemblers

    O*NET-SOC code
    51-2092.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $44,650
    U.S. employment
    1,405,030
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Bartenders

    O*NET-SOC code
    35-3011.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $34,340
    U.S. employment
    756,390
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers

    O*NET-SOC code
    33-3051.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $76,210
    U.S. employment
    670,520
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Cooks, Fast Food

    O*NET-SOC code
    35-2011.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $30,890
    U.S. employment
    641,070
    Typical education
    Less than high school
  • Driver/Sales Workers

    O*NET-SOC code
    53-3031.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $38,770
    U.S. employment
    409,180
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Parts Salespersons

    O*NET-SOC code
    41-2022.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $38,630
    U.S. employment
    270,070
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Geothermal Production Managers

    O*NET-SOC code
    11-3051.02
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $126,060
    U.S. employment
    246,250
    Typical education
    Some college, no degree
  • Hydroelectric Production Managers

    O*NET-SOC code
    11-3051.06
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $126,060
    U.S. employment
    246,250
    Typical education
    Vocational certificate
  • Cooks, Short Order

    O*NET-SOC code
    35-2015.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $35,880
    U.S. employment
    138,650
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers

    O*NET-SOC code
    53-2011.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $232,140
    U.S. employment
    103,560
    Typical education
    Bachelor's
  • Railroad Conductors and Yardmasters

    O*NET-SOC code
    53-4031.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $78,000
    U.S. employment
    46,440
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Captains, Mates, and Pilots of Water Vessels

    O*NET-SOC code
    53-5021.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $92,460
    U.S. employment
    36,850
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Bailiffs

    O*NET-SOC code
    33-3011.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $56,600
    U.S. employment
    17,310
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Ship Engineers

    O*NET-SOC code
    53-5031.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $109,530
    U.S. employment
    8,400
    Typical education
    High school / GED
  • Motorboat Operators

    O*NET-SOC code
    53-5022.00
    Its Holland code
    RCE
    U.S. median wage
    $47,520
    U.S. employment
    2,480
    Typical education
    High school / GED

The table lists all 16 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; in O*NET Database 31.0 this field does not cover every occupation, though every row on this page has one. 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.

Of the 16 rows on this page, 1 are not a wage BLS publishes for that occupation itself: 0 use the number for the successor SOC code that absorbed the occupation, and 1 use the broader group BLS reports them under. The remaining rows are the median BLS publishes at the occupation's own 6-digit SOC level.

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: RC

Same length, same first letter

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