Over the years, we have written numerous posts on careers. Now, we look at high-pay high-growth jobs. These offer terrific opportunities.
Opportunities Galore: High-Pay High-Growth Jobs
Recently, Business Insider highlighted a list of thirty jobs with both both high pay and high growth, updated to April 2022. As Madison Hoff reports:
Millions are looking for new careers amid a pandemic reshuffle. And these jobs could be a good fit. We used 2020-2030 employment projections and 2021 wage data to find high-paying jobs likely to grow. Managerial, tech, and medical jobs like registered nurses made up some of the top 30 occupations.
Insider was interested in looking at jobs that pay well. And that also may see more jobs added over the decade. To come up with our set of jobs that are expected to have bright futures ahead of them. We took the geometric mean of median annual wages and projected employment growth from 2020 to 2030. For each occupation. We then ranked occupations based on their geometric mean. A higher geometric mean would mean a higher rank.
Below, we show some marketing-related jobs from this list:
- Marketing Managers — Projected new jobs between 2020 and 2030: 29,400. Median annual wage in May 2021: $135,030. Typical educational requirements: Bachelor’s degree,
- Logisticians — Projected new jobs between 2020 and 2030: 56,400. Median annual wage in May 2021: $77,030. Typical educational requirements: Bachelor’s degree.
- Market research analysts and marketing specialists — Projected new jobs between 2020 and 2030: 163,600. Median annual wage in May 2021: $63,920. Typical educational requirements: Bachelor’s degree.
- Software developers and software quality assurance analysts and testers — Projected new jobs between 2020 and 2030: 409,500. Median annual wage in May 2021: $120,730. (Annual median wage of software developers. As opposed to the wage for software quality assurance analysts and testers). Typical educational requirements: Bachelor’s degree.
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