Projected US job growth until 2022: health care swamps everything

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Although there are clearly large differences between the US and the
Australian workforces (the sheer size for starters; the US employed
non-farm

workforce is 138.7 million compared to Australia’s total employed
workforce of 11.6 million) there’s still something to be gained in
seeing what interesting data the US Bureau of Labor Statistics
throws up.

Every two years the Bureau releases projections of the 30
fastest-growing

careers. Here are the top twenty jobs that
were on the most recent list covering the ten year period 2012 – 2022.

Rank	Job	Projected rise 2012 – 2022	2012 total employment	Median pay in 2012 (USD$)
1.	Industrial-organisational psychologists	53.4 %	1,600	$83,580
2.	Personal care aides	48.8%	1.19 million	$19,910
3.	Home health aides	48.5	875,100	$20,820
4.	Insulation workers, mechanical	46.7%	28,900	$39,170
5.	Interpreters and translators	46.1%	63,600	$45,430
6.	Diagnostic medical sonographers	46%	58,800	$65,860
7.	Brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, and tile and marble setters	43%	24,400	$28,220
8.	Occupational therapy aides	42.6	30,300	$53,240
9.	Genetic counsellors	41.2	2,100	$56,800
10.	Physical therapist assistants	41	71,400	$52,160
11.	Physical therapist aides	40.1	50,000	$23,880
12.	Skincare specialists	39.8	44,400	$28,640
13.	Physician Assistant	38.4	86,700	$90,930
14.	Segmental pavers	38.1	1,800	$33,720
15.	Electricians	36.9	60,800	$27,670
16.	Information security analysts	36.5	75,100	$86,170
17.	Occupational therapy aides	36.2	8,400	$26,850
18.	Health specialties teachers, postsecondary	36.1	190,000	$81,140
19.	Medical secretaries	36	525,600	$31,350
20.	Physical therapists	36	204,200	$79,860

As you can clearly see the ageing population is going to cause a massive
upswing in employment within the health care and social assistance area
as the fact of thirteen of the twenty jobs on the above list would
indicate.

In Australia the best disaggregated projected job
growth provided by the Department of Employment is 2013 – 2018

data. This tells us that Australia’s largest increase in new jobs
(in actual jobs, not percentage of new jobs) is projected to come from
the following industry subsectors:

School Education (58,900)
Medical Services (49,000)
Cafés, Restaurants and Takeaway Food Services
(43,700)
Allied Health Services (43,000)
Supermarket and Grocery Store (36,300)
Tertiary Education (32,700)
Computer System Design and Related Service
(31,100)
Other Social Assistance Services (30,400)
Legal and Accounting Services (30,300)
Hospitals (29,300)

Whichever way you look at it, setting yourself up for
a career in health care and related areas would seem to indicate you’ll
never be unemployed for long, if at all.

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