Browse by Career Cluster

The National Career Clusters® Framework serves as an organizing tool for programs, curriculum design and instruction. Career Clusters contain occupations in the same field of work that require similar skills. They can help focus plans towards obtaining the necessary knowledge, competencies, and training for success in a particular career pathway.

Public Service & Safety: Local, State, & Federal Services Save Table: XLSX CSV

Careers in government agencies responsible for policy and economic development, ensuring democratic processes, access to public services, governance, public administration, public policy, urban and regional planning, and community development.
This field delivers services that support the protection of public goods and community resources such as local parks, libraries, and recreation centers and promote the well-being, stability, and sustainable growth of communities and their residents.
Example programs of study:
  • Economics
  • Public Management & Administration
  • Regional & Urban Planning
CodeOccupation
19-3091.00Anthropologists and Archeologists
25-4011.00Archivists
19-2011.00Astronomers
19-2021.00Atmospheric and Space Scientists
15-2041.01Biostatisticians Bright Outlook Bright Outlook  
11-9199.11Brownfield Redevelopment Specialists and Site Managers Bright Outlook
13-2031.00Budget Analysts
17-2051.00Civil Engineers Bright Outlook
19-2041.01Climate Change Policy Analysts
21-1099.00Community and Social Service Specialists, All Other Bright Outlook
21-1094.00Community Health Workers Bright Outlook
11-9199.02Compliance Managers Bright Outlook
13-1041.00Compliance Officers
19-1031.00Conservation Scientists
47-4011.00Construction and Building Inspectors
35-2012.00Cooks, Institution and Cafeteria
13-1041.06Coroners
43-4031.00Court, Municipal, and License Clerks
13-1041.08Customs Brokers
33-3021.00Detectives and Criminal Investigators
19-3011.00Economists
11-9039.00Education Administrators, All Other
43-4061.00Eligibility Interviewers, Government Programs
47-4011.01Energy Auditors
13-1041.01Environmental Compliance Inspectors
19-3011.01Environmental Economists
19-2041.02Environmental Restoration Planners
19-4042.00Environmental Science and Protection Technicians, Including Health
19-2041.00Environmental Scientists and Specialists, Including Health
19-1041.00Epidemiologists Bright Outlook
13-1041.03Equal Opportunity Representatives and Officers
11-3013.00Facilities Managers
43-4071.00File Clerks
33-1012.00First-Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives
33-1099.00First-Line Supervisors of Protective Service Workers, All Other
33-3031.00Fish and Game Wardens
19-3092.00Geographers
19-4043.00Geological Technicians, Except Hydrologic Technicians
13-1041.04Government Property Inspectors and Investigators
11-3121.00Human Resources Managers Bright Outlook
19-2041.03Industrial Ecologists
43-4199.00Information and Record Clerks, All Other
33-3021.06Intelligence Analysts
11-1031.00Legislators
19-1099.00Life Scientists, All Other
11-9199.08Loss Prevention Managers Bright Outlook
13-1111.00Management Analysts Bright Outlook
11-9199.00Managers, All Other Bright Outlook
15-2021.00Mathematicians
43-5041.00Meter Readers, Utilities
19-1031.03Park Naturalists
19-2012.00Physicists
33-3021.02Police Identification and Records Officers
19-3094.00Political Scientists
43-5051.00Postal Service Clerks
43-5052.00Postal Service Mail Carriers
43-5053.00Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators
11-9131.00Postmasters and Mail Superintendents
19-1031.02Range Managers
11-9199.01Regulatory Affairs Managers Bright Outlook
13-1041.07Regulatory Affairs Specialists
11-3013.01Security Managers
11-9151.00Social and Community Service Managers Bright Outlook
19-4061.00Social Science Research Assistants
19-3099.00Social Scientists and Related Workers, All Other
19-3041.00Sociologists
15-2041.00Statisticians Bright Outlook
19-3022.00Survey Researchers
13-2081.00Tax Examiners and Collectors, and Revenue Agents
11-3131.00Training and Development Managers Bright Outlook
17-2051.01Transportation Engineers Bright Outlook
19-3099.01Transportation Planners
19-3051.00Urban and Regional Planners
17-2051.02Water/Wastewater Engineers Bright Outlook
11-9199.10Wind Energy Development Managers Bright Outlook
11-9199.09Wind Energy Operations Managers Bright Outlook

Source: National Career Clusters® Framework by Advance CTE (2024 edition).