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Jobs with the worst wage losses

Administrative & Professional
Tucson Urban League
CEO/President Sales and Marketing
Everready Glass
Sales Reps Health Care
Dependable Health Services
Physical Therapists Mechanical
Komatsu Equipment Co
Resident Field Mechanic Finance and Accounting
Charles E. Gillman Company
Accounting Specialist Construction
West-Press
Printing Administrative & Professional
Jorgensen Brooks Group
Counselor

The median wages in these occupations had the largest increases in Tucson from 2002 to 2006, according to data from the Arizona Department of Commerce's Research Administration.

+102%

1. Manufacturing machine operators

+91%

2. Security supervisors and managers

+90%

3. Motor vehicle operators such as assembly-line drivers

+85%

4. Fine artists

+81%

5. Electrical and electronics repairers for commercial and industrial equipment

+75%

6. Postsecondary vocational education teachers

+72%

7. Quality-control workers

+69%

8. Skin-care specialists

+69%

8. Multimedia artists and animators

+68%

10. Environmental-engineering technicians