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An Outlet Manager runs a single food and beverage venue inside a hotel or resort: the signature restaurant, the lobby bar, the pool grill or the grab-and-go market. The job sits one rung below the Director of Food and Beverage and owns that venue's covers, check average, labor hours, beverage cost and guest scores. It is a working floor job as much as a desk job, with the manager on the floor through the busiest service and at the POS terminal afterward. BLS groups the role with food service managers; in the traveler accommodation industry, the May 2025 median for that occupation was $82,240, with a 10th to 90th percentile spread of $60,980 to $131,060.

An NFL Referee is the crew chief of a National Football League officiating crew: the white-capped official who lines up in the offensive backfield, signals every foul, counts the offense and holds final authority on on-field rulings. The 2026 rulebook gives the referee general oversight and control of the game and the deciding word when the crew disagrees on a down, a ruling or an enforcement. The league publishes no pay scale for referees. Reported averages across all NFL officials were $205,000 in 2019 and about $350,000 in 2025, and the New York Post projected that a raise matching the league's earlier 10-percent offer would lift that average to roughly $385,000, so this page's band is an estimate.

A Marketing Forward Deployed Engineer is a software engineer whom a marketing technology vendor, or one of its partner firms, places with a client's marketing team to get AI products working inside that client's own stack. The job is engagement-based: connect the client's CRM, customer data platform and messaging tools, build and tune AI agents for campaigns and content, prove the result on live data, then hand off and move to the next account. BLS does not track the title. For Software Developers employed by software publishers, May 2025 pay ran from $82,180 at the 10th percentile to $218,330 at the 90th, with a median of $164,550.

A government forward deployed engineer is a software engineer who works embedded in a federal, military, intelligence, state or local agency to get an AI system running on that agency's data, inside its accredited environment, for the people who will use it. Many work for AI companies, data platform vendors or systems integrators and rotate between engagements; the Defense Department also posted federal jobs under the title in 2026. BLS does not track the job separately. For software developers in computer systems design and related services, May 2025 pay ran from $79,740 at the 10th percentile to $212,340 at the 90th, with a median of $132,050.

An AI agent operations engineer runs AI agents in production: instrumenting them, evaluating how they behave with real users, responding when they fail, enforcing guardrails and keeping cost per task in check. The role sits in platform, site reliability or AI engineering teams, downstream of the engineers who build the agents and alongside security, finance and the business owners who depend on agent output. BLS does not count the title separately. Its nearest reported occupation, software developers, had a May 2025 median wage of $135,980; one in ten earned less than $82,460, and one in ten earned more than $214,670.

A Supply Chain Forward Deployed Engineer is a software engineer employed by a supply chain or freight technology vendor who embeds with that vendor's customers, such as shippers, carriers, freight brokers and third-party logistics providers, to get the product working inside their operations. The job sits between engineering, implementation and the client's own logistics team: mapping EDI feeds, wiring the platform into ERP, TMS and WMS data, and configuring AI agents for work like check calls and invoice processing. BLS does not track the title. Software Developers at software publishers earned a median of $164,550 in May 2025, with the 10th to 90th percentile running from $82,180 to $218,330.