Thanks to a larger aging population, advances in technology and a focus on preventative care, health care is the most rapidly expanding industry in the US. Here is a projection of the fastest-growing health care jobs over the past decade, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
|
Occupation |
Percent Change in Jobs |
| Personal and home care aides |
53.0%
|
| Home health aides |
46.9%
|
| Medical assistants |
36.1%
|
| Pharmacy technicians |
31.6%
|
| Dental hygienists |
30.4%
|
| Physical therapists |
30.4%
|
| Dental assistants |
30.3%
|
| Physical therapist assistants |
29.7%
|
| Physician assistants |
29.6%
|
| Counselors |
29.3%
|
| Social and human service assistants |
28.9%
|
| Occupational therapists |
28.4%
|
| Cardiovascular technologists |
25.5%
|
| Registered Nurses |
25.2%
|
| Surgical technologists |
24.6%
|
| Respiratory therapists |
23.4%
|
| Paramedics and EMTs |
22.3%
|
| Pharmacists |
22.2%
|
| Food servers |
20.0%
|
| Ultrasound technologists |
19.2%
|
| Medical billing and coding |
18.6%
|
| Nurse assistants |
18.3%
|
| Management |
18.2%
|
| Physicians and surgeons |
17.1%
|
| X-ray technologists |
15.4%
|
| Administrative support |
14.4%
|
| Clinical lab technicians |
14.3%
|
| Licensed practical nurses |
13.4%
|
| Medical transcriptionists |
10.5%
|
| Dentists |
7.5%
|
