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Jobs with the least public speaking

O*NET asks people in every occupation "How frequently does your job require public speaking (one speaker with an audience)?" and publishes the mean answer on a 1-to-5 scale. This page lists the 25 occupations whose mean sits lowest, with the BLS wage, education and outlook for each.

Which jobs require the least public speaking?

Across the 894 occupations O*NET 30.3 rates, the 25 lowest for Public Speaking average between 1.02 and 1.2 on O*NET's 1-to-5 scale, where 1 means "Never" and 5 means "Every day"; the median across all occupations is 2.2. Lowest are Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers (1.02), Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers (1.02), Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles (1.04). Their median BLS wage is $46,330 (2025, 25 of 25 with a BLS line item), and 25 of the 25 with BLS education data typically need less than a bachelor's degree.

Occupations compared
894 O*NET 30.3 occupations with published Work Context ratings
What O*NET asks incumbents
Public Speaking: "How frequently does your job require public speaking (one speaker with an audience)?"
Scale
1 = Never; 3 = Once a month or more but not every week; 5 = Every day. Values are mean incumbent ratings.
Wage and outlook source
BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, Table 1.2 Occupational projections, 2025–35, and worker characteristics, 2025 (Employment in thousands). 3 of the 25 occupations listed have a dedicated RoleSprint page.

Source and method

O*NET 30.3 Database (Work Context), U.S. Department of Labor, and BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2. Verified 2026-09-05. Ratings are reproduced from O*NET as published mean incumbent responses on each question's own 1-to-5 scale. Percentile ranks, composite averages and the resulting order are RoleSprint's computation and are described on the methodology page. Wage, education and outlook fields are reproduced from BLS for the matching SOC code and left blank where BLS publishes no line item.

The 25 occupations

Ordered by mean rating for Public Speaking, lowest first. Scale: 1 = Never; 5 = Every day.

#OccupationO*NET valueRankBLS wage and education
1

Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers

O*NET-SOC 51-6041.00

1.02 of 5

Never

Lower than 99%

of 894 occupations

$37,800 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · -6.5% 2025-35

2

Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers

O*NET-SOC 49-9095.00

1.02 of 5

Never

Lower than 99%

of 894 occupations

$45,990 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · +5.8% 2025-35

3

Floor Layers, Except Carpet, Wood, and Hard Tiles

O*NET-SOC 47-2042.00

1.04 of 5

Never

Lower than 99%

of 894 occupations

$56,460 median (2025)

No formal educational credential · +9% 2025-35

4

Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders

O*NET-SOC 51-6062.00

1.04 of 5

Never

Lower than 99%

of 894 occupations

$38,760 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · -13.6% 2025-35

5

Dental Hygienists

O*NET-SOC 29-1292.00

1.06 of 5

Never

Lower than 99%

of 894 occupations

$98,100 median (2025)

Associate's degree · +8% 2025-35

6

Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors

O*NET-SOC 53-7081.00

1.06 of 5

Never

Lower than 99%

of 894 occupations

$49,690 median (2025)

No formal educational credential · +2.1% 2025-35

7

Billing and Posting Clerks

O*NET-SOC 43-3021.00

1.07 of 5

Never

Lower than 99%

of 894 occupations

$48,500 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · -0.1% 2025-35

8

Automotive Glass Installers and Repairers

O*NET-SOC 49-3022.00

1.07 of 5

Never

Lower than 99%

of 894 occupations

$47,630 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · +5.7% 2025-35

9

Nannies

O*NET-SOC 39-9011.01

1.08 of 5

Never

Lower than 99%

of 894 occupations

$34,980 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · -2% 2025-35

10

Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters

O*NET-SOC 47-3015.00

1.08 of 5

Never

Lower than 99%

of 894 occupations

$42,360 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · +2.4% 2025-35

11

Manicurists and Pedicurists

O*NET-SOC 39-5092.00

1.11 of 5

Never

Lower than 99%

of 894 occupations

$35,760 median (2025)

Postsecondary nondegree award · +9.2% 2025-35

12

Print Binding and Finishing Workers

O*NET-SOC 51-5113.00

1.12 of 5

Never

Lower than 99%

of 894 occupations

$42,290 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · -17.5% 2025-35

13

Camera and Photographic Equipment Repairers

O*NET-SOC 49-9061.00

1.13 of 5

Never

Lower than 99%

of 894 occupations

$52,720 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · -15.5% 2025-35

14

Tile and Stone Setters

O*NET-SOC 47-2044.00

1.14 of 5

Never

Lower than 98%

of 894 occupations

$55,690 median (2025)

No formal educational credential · +9.8% 2025-35

15

Watch and Clock Repairers

O*NET-SOC 49-9064.00

1.14 of 5

Never

Lower than 98%

of 894 occupations

$67,230 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · -0.3% 2025-35

16

Farmworkers, Farm, Ranch, and Aquacultural Animals

O*NET-SOC 45-2093.00

1.16 of 5

Never

Lower than 98%

of 894 occupations

$36,670 median (2025)

No formal educational credential · -3.2% 2025-35

17

Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic

O*NET-SOC 51-4031.00

1.17 of 5

Never

Lower than 98%

of 894 occupations

$46,330 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · -10.5% 2025-35

18

Floral Designers

O*NET-SOC 27-1023.00

1.17 of 5

Never

Lower than 98%

of 894 occupations

$37,360 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · -5.6% 2025-35

19

Public Safety Telecommunicators

O*NET-SOC 43-5031.00

1.18 of 5

Never

Lower than 98%

of 894 occupations

$53,040 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · +3.7% 2025-35

20

Crossing Guards and Flaggers

O*NET-SOC 33-9091.00

1.18 of 5

Never

Lower than 98%

of 894 occupations

$38,100 median (2025)

No formal educational credential · +3.5% 2025-35

21

Prepress Technicians and Workers

O*NET-SOC 51-5111.00

1.18 of 5

Never

Lower than 98%

of 894 occupations

$48,690 median (2025)

Postsecondary nondegree award · -15.3% 2025-35

22

Locker Room, Coatroom, and Dressing Room Attendants

O*NET-SOC 39-3093.00

1.19 of 5

Never

Lower than 98%

of 894 occupations

$36,300 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · +6.4% 2025-35

23

Grinding and Polishing Workers, Hand

O*NET-SOC 51-9022.00

1.19 of 5

Never

Lower than 98%

of 894 occupations

$42,660 median (2025)

No formal educational credential · -19.2% 2025-35

24

Biomass Plant Technicians

O*NET-SOC 51-8013.03

1.20 of 5

Never

Lower than 97%

of 894 occupations

$102,040 median (2025)

High school diploma or equivalent · -5.1% 2025-35

25

Plasterers and Stucco Masons

O*NET-SOC 47-2161.00

1.20 of 5

Never

Lower than 97%

of 894 occupations

$57,660 median (2025)

No formal educational credential · +2.8% 2025-35

Values are mean ratings from O*NET 30.3; most come from surveys of people in the occupation, some from occupational experts, and some for newer occupations from O*NET analysts. Wage, education and outlook are from BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2 for the matching SOC code and are blank where BLS publishes no line item.

How this was measured

Public Speaking (O*NET element 4.C.1.a.2.c). The question put to incumbents: “How frequently does your job require public speaking (one speaker with an audience)?”

  1. 1

    Never

  2. 2

    Once a year or more but not every month

  3. 3

    Once a month or more but not every week

  4. 4

    Once a week or more but not every day

  5. 5

    Every day

894 of 894 occupations have a published, unsuppressed value for this element. The percentile beside each occupation is its position among them.

The full method, including how ties are broken and what the data cannot tell you, is on the methodology page.

Narrow the list with BLS data

Each variant keeps the same measure and restricts the occupations by a published BLS threshold. A variant exists only where the restriction actually changes the list rather than the heading; the combinations that left the answer much as it was were not published.

Combine this with other conditions

The explorer ranks all occupations on any set of measures you choose, with the same values and the same arithmetic as this page.

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This page includes information from the O*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. RoleSprint has modified all or some of this information. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Wage, education and outlook figures are reproduced from BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

What to do next

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