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.