TryHired Work Requirements by Career (BLS Occupational Requirements Survey 2025, preliminary)
Selected 2025 preliminary BLS Occupational Requirements Survey estimates for every career with a live TryHired page and a detailed-occupation ORS estimate: ability to telework, no prior experience required, credential required, most common minimum education and strength level (with the share of workers), ability to pause work and self-paced workload. Published bounds are kept in words.
Version 2026.10 · Updated 2026-10-26 · 72 rows · Coverage: United States · Reference period: 2025 (preliminary estimates) · Free to download
CSV and JSON
- work-requirements.csv (10 KB)
- work-requirements.json (31 KB)
- datapackage.json (metadata and field schema)
Licence: U.S. public domain (BLS); attribution requested. Please cite: TryHired (2026), TryHired Work Requirements by Career (BLS Occupational Requirements Survey 2025, preliminary), version 2026.10, https://tryhired.co/data/work-requirements/.
Primary sources and reference periods
| Source | Reference period | Licence |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Requirements Survey (ORS), 2025 estimates | 2025 (samples collected Aug 2023 – Jul 2025) | Public domain (work of the U.S. federal government); TryHired asks for attribution |
The first rows
slug | soc_code | ors_occupation | telework_ability | no_prior_experience_required | credential_required | minimum_education_most_common |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| accountant | 13-2011 | Accountants and auditors | 68.4% | 29.3% | 14.6% | Bachelor's degree |
| administrative-assistant | 43-6014 | Secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive | 25.2% | 34.7% | less than 5% | High school diploma |
| anesthesiologist-assistant | 29-1071 | Physician assistants | less than 5% | more than 99.5% | Bachelor's degree | |
| bank-teller | 43-3071 | Tellers | less than 0.5% | 63.2% | less than 0.5% | High school diploma |
| barista | 35-3023 | Fast food and counter workers | less than 0.5% | 98.1% | less than 0.5% | No minimum education |
| bartender | 35-3011 | Bartenders | less than 0.5% | 45.0% | 14.4% | No minimum education |
| bookkeeper | 43-3031 | Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks | 28.1% | 25.7% | less than 0.5% | High school diploma |
| carpenter | 47-2031 | Carpenters | less than 0.5% | 5.3% | No minimum education |
Blank = not published by the source. Full table in the download.
What each column means
slug | TryHired career identifier |
|---|---|
soc_code | 2018 SOC code |
ors_occupation | ORS occupation title |
telework_ability | Share of workers with the ability to telework (not a remote-job share) |
no_prior_experience_required | Share not required to have prior work experience |
credential_required | Share required to hold a credential |
minimum_education_most_common | Most common minimum education |
minimum_education_share | Share of workers for that category |
most_common_strength_level | Most common strength level |
strength_level_share | Share of workers for that level |
can_pause_work | Share able to take short unscheduled breaks |
self_paced_workload | Share who set their own workload |
status | Estimate status |
What this dataset cannot tell you
- Preliminary until BLS publishes final third-wave estimates.
- Only detailed occupations; group figures are never shown as a role's figure.
- Not health or disability guidance.
How the figures are built, and how to report an error: methodology · corrections.