By: BLS.gov

Job Description
Management, scientific, and technical consulting firms influence how businesses, governments, and institutions make decisions. Often working behind the scenes, these firms offer resources that clients cannot provide themselves. Usually, one of the resources is expertise—in the form of knowledge, experience, special skills, or creativity; another resource is time or personnel that the client cannot spare. Clients include large and small companies in the private sector; Federal, State, and local government agencies; institutions, such as hospitals, universities, unions, and nonprofit organizations; and foreign governments or businesses.

The management, scientific, and technical consulting services industry is diverse. Almost anyone with expertise in a given area can enter consulting.

Median Salary
$55,000

Education Requirements About 72 percent of workers have a bachelor’s or higher degree; 59 percent of all jobs are in managerial, business, financial, and professional occupations, although there are no official degree requirements for most job descriptions.

Job Outlook
The Bureau of Labor Statistics notes Business support services as one of the top 15 fastest growing sectors, with a projected growth of 35,000 jobs in the next 6 years. This includes jobs within the federal, state and local government levels, which have a projected growth of 4.8% (or 10.8 million to 11.3 million jobs opened by 2016.)