Also called: Field Operations Supervisor, Interviewer Supervisor
Manages teams of survey interviewers who knock on doors or call people for research studies.
A field supervisor assigns addresses, trains interviewers, checks data quality, and solves problems when respondents are hard to reach.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 4 years after high school. Interviewing experience; a bachelor's helps.
Ways in: 4-year college, On-the-job training. Training cost: Get paid while you train.
Majors to look at: Sociology, Statistics.
Growing slowly (about 0% over 10 years). BLS 2025-35 projection band for SOC 43-1011: Little or no change.
Medium risk in 5 years, high in 10. Online and AI-run surveys shrink door-to-door fieldwork, so fewer supervisors are needed.
Classes: Statistics, Speech, A second language.
Official data: O*NET occupation 43-1011.
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