Fastest growing occupations,
2014 and projected 2024
(Numbers in thousands) |
|||
2014 National
Employment Matrix title
|
Change, 2014-24
|
Median
annual wage, 2014
|
|
Number
|
Percent
|
||
Total, all occupations
|
9,788.9
|
6.5
|
$35,540
|
Wind turbine
service technicians
|
4.8
|
108.0
|
$48,800
|
Occupational
therapy assistants
|
14.1
|
42.7
|
$56,950
|
Physical therapist
assistants
|
31.9
|
40.6
|
$54,410
|
Physical therapist
aides
|
19.5
|
39.0
|
$24,650
|
Home health aides
|
348.4
|
38.1
|
$21,380
|
Commercial divers
|
1.6
|
36.9
|
$45,890
|
Nurse practitioners
|
44.7
|
35.2
|
$95,350
|
Physical therapists
|
71.8
|
34.0
|
$82,390
|
Statisticians
|
10.1
|
33.8
|
$79,990
|
Ambulance drivers
and attendants, except emergency medical technicians
|
6.5
|
33.0
|
$24,080
|
Occupational
therapy aides
|
2.7
|
30.6
|
$26,550
|
Physician
assistants
|
28.7
|
30.4
|
$95,820
|
Operations research
analysts
|
27.6
|
30.2
|
$76,660
|
Personal financial
advisors
|
73.9
|
29.6
|
$81,060
|
Cartographers and
photogrammetrists
|
3.6
|
29.3
|
$60,930
|
Genetic counselors
|
0.7
|
28.8
|
$67,500
|
Interpreters and
translators
|
17.5
|
28.7
|
$43,590
|
Audiologists
|
3.8
|
28.6
|
$73,060
|
Hearing aid
specialists
|
1.6
|
27.2
|
$43,010
|
Optometrists
|
11.0
|
27.0
|
$101,410
|
Forensic science
technicians
|
3.8
|
26.6
|
$55,360
|
Web developers
|
39.5
|
26.6
|
$63,490
|
Occupational
therapists
|
30.4
|
26.5
|
$78,810
|
Diagnostic medical
sonographers
|
16.0
|
26.4
|
$67,530
|
Personal care aides
|
458.1
|
25.9
|
$20,440
|
Phlebotomists
|
28.1
|
24.9
|
$30,670
|
Ophthalmic medical
technicians
|
9.1
|
24.7
|
$35,230
|
Nurse midwives
|
1.3
|
24.6
|
$96,970
|
Solar photovoltaic
installers
|
1.4
|
24.3
|
$40,020
|
Emergency medical
technicians and paramedics
|
58.5
|
24.2
|
$31,700
|
Where Laurence Shatkin, PhD, mixes career information and career decision making in a test tube, and we see what happens.
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
The Bureau of Labor Statistics today posted their latest employment-projection figures for the upcoming decade. Here's the table that I find most interesting.
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