You could find a rewarding career in the financial services industry. Certified Public Accountants (CPAs) make an average of $74,200 and 10-year job growth is expected to be 18%. As more companies are doing away with pension plans, employees will need help with retirement planning.
More than half of the 201,180 laundry attendant jobs in the United States were in dry cleaning and laundry services, with mean wages of $9.93 per hour or $20,660 per year.
Dry-cleaning workers were paid different average wages depending on the type of facility or the employer for which they worked. As of 2011, the bureau reports that government workers were the top earners. Federal employees averaged $35,360 a year, and state workers averaged $30,280. Dry-cleaning workers at general and surgical hospitals earned considerably less but still higher than the average across all places of employment, at $24,180. Those at nursing facilities and hotels averaged about $21,000, and those working in laundry and dry-cleaning service facilities averaged $20,660.