The healthcare sector is booming due to a growing population that will require increasing care with age.
Baby Boomers—those born between 1946 and 1964—are retiring at the rate of thousands per day. The Pew Research Center reports that Millennials—roughly ages 25 to 40—overtake Baby Boomers as America's largest generation. This means that a large percentage of the American workforce carries the burden of the economy during their prime childbearing years.
With large segments of the population entering their senior years and others with growing families, health professionals will be in demand to meet these increasing needs.
Fortunately, promising healthcare careers abound in 2024-2025.
Here's how Medical Technology Schools broke down the top 50 health careers for 2024-2025:
Career growth (as predicted by the Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics) was considered since having a positive employment outlook is essential to making a career an attractive path. These measurements included both the projected growth percentage as well as growth in the absolute number of jobs available.
Salary is also a factor, with higher-paying jobs being boosted even if their demand outlook was not as strong.
Flexibility and return on investment also influenced the selection of careers, although to a lesser degree than projected career growth or salary. Physical therapy, for instance, affords practitioners the flexibility to determine and adjust their schedules.
Unless otherwise specified, all BLS career growth figures are projected increases in jobs in the US between 2022 and 2032, and all salary figures are from May 2023—the most recent data available as of August 2024.
This story was produced by Medical Technology Schools and reviewed and distributed by Stacker Media.