Make your career moves healthy ones. In the US, you can bet on health care or management.
That’s the message from a new US Bureau of Labor Statistics (pdf) report forecasting that health care will account for one-third of the 15.6 million new US jobs created in the next decade.
US employers will add 526,800 new registered nurses to their payrolls from 2012 to 2022, and another 182,900 licensed vocational nurses—both with growth rates that are twice the overall 10.8% gain in jobs over that period.
Here are 10 of the fastest growing jobs that pay well, as identified by the BLS. Also included is 10-year growth rate and median pay for each occupation:
- Diagnostic medical sonographer 46.0%, $65,860
- Physical therapists 36.0% $79,860
- Physician assistants 38.4% $90,930
- Dental hygenists 33.3% $70,210
- Nurse practitioners 33.7% $89,960
- Registered nurses 19.4% pay: $65,470
- Information security analysts 36.5% $86,170
- Market research analysts & marketing specialists 31.6% $60,300
- General and operations managers 12.4% $95,440
- Interpreters and translators 46.1% $45,430
Quartz left out plenty of fast growing jobs that don’t pay very well, including home health aide and brickmason helper.