Workers such as actuaries, statisticians and operations analysts are specialists in a particular branch of mathematics. M any non-faculty mathematicians work for either the Federal or state governments. The Department of Defense is the primary Federal employer of mathematicians, employing almost three-fourths of the mathematicians in this area. In the private sector, major employers include research and testing services, educational services, security and commodity exchanges, and management and public relations services. Within manufacturing, the drug industry is the key employer.
Some mathematicians also work for banks, insurance companies and public utilities.