Also called: Price Assessor
Calls traders every day to find out the true market price of oil, metals or chemicals and publishes official benchmarks.
You spend the afternoon on the phone with 20 jet fuel traders, verify their deals and publish the price that airlines and contracts worldwide will use.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Bachelor's in journalism, economics or a science.
Ways in: 4-year college. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Economics, Journalism, Chemistry.
Growing about average. Small but steady niche at firms like Platts and Argus.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI can draft reports, but calling traders and verifying deals in opaque markets still needs trusted human sources.
Classes: Journalism, AP Macroeconomics, Chemistry.
Official data: O*NET occupation 27-3023.
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