Also called: Cataloger, Taxonomy specialist
Designs the labels and categories that make information findable, in libraries or at tech companies.
Metadata specialists describe items so search engines can find them, design category systems (taxonomies), and clean up messy data. Tech companies and retailers hire taxonomists for product search.
Estimate; tech-company taxonomists earn more.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Master's degree, about 6 years after high school. Bachelor's in any subject plus a Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS/MLS, 1-2 years).
Ways in: Graduate school. Training cost: $60k – $150k.
Majors to look at: Library Science, Linguistics, Information Science.
Growing about average (about 3% over 10 years). BLS projects ~3% growth for librarians and library media specialists.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. AI auto-tags and catalogs items at scale, cutting cataloging jobs; designing taxonomies and fixing messy data stay human.
Classes: AP Computer Science Principles, AP English Language, Computer applications.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-4022.
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