| The best future jobs for the next decade for job | | | | - Accountants and Auditors - 226,000 positions |
| creation with above average wages (as defined by | | | | created by 2016 |
| higher than median wage as of 2006) according to the | | | | - Computer Software Application Engineers - 226,000 |
| Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) appear to be in health | | | | jobs created |
| care, technology, education, and business support and | | | | Rounding out the top ten best future jobs (all expected |
| operation functions. If you're studying now and training | | | | to add more than 100,000 new workers by 2016) are |
| to be in one of these fields then it's likely you're on a | | | | business operations specialists, elementary school |
| good path. Here's a quick and dirty break-down of | | | | teachers, truck drivers (heavy and tractor trailer), sales |
| what professions can expect to see the most gains in | | | | representatives, and management analysts. |
| employment in the next ten years. | | | | Among these top ten best future jobs the 2006 |
| Excerpts from BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook | | | | median annual wages ranged from $35,000 per year |
| 2008-09 | | | | for the truck drivers to over $79,000 for the software |
| - Registered Nurses - Expected to increase | | | | engineers. All of the top ten growth occupations in the |
| workforce by 587,000 | | | | outlook required at least some post-secondary |
| - Post Secondary Teachers / Professors - 382,000 | | | | education. There were only a handful of occupations in |
| new positions in the next decade | | | | the broader study with high job creation of above |
| - Executive Secretaries and Administrative Assistants | | | | average wage earners that only required a high school |
| - 239,000 new workers | | | | diploma. |