Career roadmap
How to become Athletes and Sports Competitors
Median annual wage for Athletes and Sports Competitors (27-2021) — BLS OEWS, May 2023.
What you would actually do
The tasks that make up the work of Athletes and Sports Competitors, weighted by how central each one is to the job.
- Evaluate skills of athletes or performers.
- Practice athletic or artistic skills.
- Participate in athletic events.
- Promote products, activities, or organizations.
- Coach others.
The skills that actually carry the job
Scored on how much the work depends on each one — not a wishlist, a measurement.
- Speaking3.9/5
- Active Listening3.8/5
- Critical Thinking3.8/5
- Coordination3.6/5
- Monitoring3.3/5
- Judgment and Decision Making3.3/5
- Reading Comprehension3.1/5
- Social Perceptiveness3.1/5
- Active Learning3.0/5
- Persuasion3.0/5
Would this suit you?
Every occupation leans on a particular mix of interests. Here is the mix measured for Athletes and Sports Competitors — and our free 2-minute Career Match scores you on the same six.
- Realistic5.0/7
Hands-on, practical, working with tools, machines or the body
- Enterprising4.5/7
Persuading, leading, selling, taking commercial risk
- Social4.4/7
Helping, teaching, caring for and working directly with people
- Conventional2.9/7
Ordering, checking, following a precise procedure accurately
- Artistic2.2/7
Creating, expressing, working without a fixed procedure
- Investigative1.6/7
Investigating, diagnosing, reasoning through problems with evidence
Interest profiles from the O*NET 29.0 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Used under CC BY 4.0.
