Table 4. Excess mortality among Californians 18–65 years of age, by occupation: March through November 2020.

Description	Excess deaths	COVID-19 deaths	Per-capita excess	Relative excess
Sewing machine operators	70	73	200	1.59
Cooks	316	123	100	1.57
Miscellaneous agricultural workers	378	242	126	1.54
Butchers and other meat, poultry, and fish processing workers	40	20	164	1.52
Couriers and messengers	59	21	105	1.52
Production workers, all other	101	61	137	1.46
Metal workers and plastic workers, all other	35	34	546	1.43
Taxi drivers and chauffeurs	46	25	44	1.42
Bakers	34	23	89	1.40
Industrial truck and tractor operators	115	63	137	1.40
Packaging and filling machine operators and tenders	31	23	83	1.39
Construction laborers	756	269	227	1.38
Laborers and freight, stock, and material movers, hand	450	193	133	1.37
Miscellaneous assemblers and fabricators	82	40	76	1.37
Customer service representatives	160	47	46	1.36
Grounds maintenance workers	232	112	115	1.35
Stock clerks and order fillers	102	30	47	1.34
Security guards and gaming surveillance officers	204	86	120	1.34
First-line supervisors of housekeeping and janitorial workers	42	26	150	1.34
Maids and housekeeping cleaners	108	73	43	1.33
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides	121	54	67	1.32
Chefs and head cooks	143	58	168	1.32
Driver/sales workers and truck drivers	474	267	107	1.30
Social workers	54	20	49	1.29
Janitors and building cleaners	220	135	72	1.28

The table shows the 25 occupations with the most excess deaths, ranked by relative excess, and restricting to occcupations with 20 or more recorded COVID-19 deaths.