Where Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians Move Next
Occupation move map · Transportation and Material Moving
Most career-change advice for ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians is somebody's opinion. This page is not. It is built from 58,121 observed occupation changes in the U.S. Current Population Survey — real people, tracked from one job to the next, not survey respondents describing what they would like to do.
Of every 100 ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians who moved to a different occupation group, here is where they went.
| Destination | Share of movers | Observations | Move type | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Safety Telecommunicators | 5.9% | 1 | lateral | Thin evidence (fewer than 30) |
The most common destination is public safety telecommunicators, at 5.9% of movers (1 observed transitions). Neither is a default outcome: the leading move is roughly a 1-in-17 result among people who move at all.
Seen at the group level, split estimated
Movers from ambulance drivers and attendants, except emergency medical technicians were observed entering the occupation groups these belong to, but the split to each specific occupation was not directly observed, so no share is shown.
- First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers — estimated, 0 direct observations
- Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers — estimated, 0 direct observations
- Cleaners of Vehicles and Equipment — estimated, 0 direct observations
- Sales Representatives, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Products — estimated, 0 direct observations
- Cashiers — estimated, 0 direct observations
- Counter and Rental Clerks — estimated, 0 direct observations
- Refuse and Recyclable Material Collectors — estimated, 0 direct observations
Occupations with a similar skill profile
Ranked by skill similarity from O*NET, not by observed moves. A place to look, not a measured path.
- Dental Assistants
- Nursing Assistants
- Home Health Aides
- Athletic Trainers
- Parking Enforcement Workers
- Bus Drivers, School
- Crossing Guards and Flaggers
How to read these numbers honestly
These are shares conditional on moving — the denominator is people in this occupation who changed to a different occupation group, not everyone in it. Most people in any given period do not move at all, so this page tells you the direction of movement, not how likely you are to move.
The underlying occupation codes are re-derived from job descriptions at each interview, which manufactures some transitions that never happened. We control for that four ways: we work at coarse occupation groupings rather than fine codes, we down-weight occupation changes not corroborated by an employer or industry change, we prefer the dependent-coded monthly survey over the retrospective annual one, and we shrink thin cells toward a skill-similarity prior. The residual uncertainty is why every row carries its observation count.
A row is marked Observed when at least 30 direct transitions were recorded; Thin evidence when fewer were; and Estimated when none were — the move to that occupation's group was observed, and the split to this particular occupation is allocated by skill similarity, so no share is shown.
Snapshot cps-movegraph-759b8583ddf6, frozen June 30, 2026. Held-out validation: precision@5 of 0.238, against 0.163 for a popularity baseline and 0.154 for a skill-similarity baseline.
What this page cannot tell you
It cannot tell you which of these moves fits your own record. A destination that many movers take is still the wrong move for most individuals — the ranking is population-level, and your last three roles, your credentials and what you actually want change it substantially.
See which of these moves your own experience already supports.
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