Posted on 12/24/2018 8:10:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Looking for a new job? If you are, 2019 is expected to be a great year for landing one of the highest paying jobs in a fast growing field.
Those plum top jobs are in fields like physician's assistant and software developer for apps.
One forecast even says jobs are expected to bloom for cannabis cultivators. That's right — pot growers! But the pay may not be as good as it is in those fastest growing, highest paying jobs. That combination makes those jobs the bull's-eye of job hunting.
If you want to land one of the highest paying jobs in a field that is growing fast, it will help to have sharp so-called STEM skills (science, technology, engineering, mathematics).
But even without polished STEM skills, you can still land one of those highest paying jobs. You just have to know certain job-hunting tricks, says Katie Bardaro, chief economist for Payscale.com, a website that offers information about salaries and benefits.
Those tips are especially helpful to anyone who does not necessarily have the time or money to go back to school full time.
And those tips are timely because job hunting traditionally kicks into high gear each new year.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), jobs with the highest rate of new openings between 2016 and 2026 — and which also offered the highest median wages in 2017 — will be physician assistant, nurse practitioner, mathematician and software developer for apps.
The number of jobs in those fields is expected to grow 29.7%-37.3% from 2016 to 2026.
Median annual pay for those jobs ranges from $101,790 for app developers to $104,860 for a physician's assistant. That makes those among 2019's top choices for new jobs.
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$100K+ starting salary is just about enough to make the monthly payments on the $120K+ in student loans you have to pay back.
I didn’t see, “Corrupted Politician,” on the list, and their salaries beat these occupations by a mile.
I was in a line at Sears maybe 3 years ago at this time and there were 2 parents telling another person in line that their 18 year old son was starting his software programming job for a game company at.... $100,000 a year!
That 18 year will get use to that pay check.
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