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Fastest projected growth rate
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@misc{futurehistory_fastest_growing, author = {{Future History}}, title = {Fastest projected growth rate}, year = {2026}, month = nov, howpublished = {\url{https://futurehistory.earth/trends/fastest-growing}}, note = {Last updated 2026-11-01}, }
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Occupations with the highest projected percent growth in employment over the coming decade. A high rate can come from a small base: the most jobs added list counts jobs instead.
Fastest projected growth rate
Nurse Practitioners, Data Scientists, Medical and Health Services Managers and 17 more below.
Solid where an official survey counted, hazy where a figure is researched, dotted where nobody counted. Past the last count, a river fans into its cited forecasts.
- 1Nurse Practitioners+41%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 2Data Scientists+35%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 3Medical and Health Services Managers+24%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 4Physical Therapist Assistants+23%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 5Psychiatric Technicians+22%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 6Computer and Information Research Scientists+22%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 7Occupational Therapy Assistants+22%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 8Ophthalmic Medical Technicians+21%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 9Physician Assistants+21%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 10Information Security Analysts+21%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 11Epidemiologists+19%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 12Occupational Health and Safety Specialists+19%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 13Health Specialties Teachers, Postsecondary+18%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 14Industrial Machinery Mechanics+18%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 15Logisticians+18%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 16Nursing Instructors and Teachers, Postsecondary+17%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 17Speech-Language Pathologists+17%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 18Health Information Technologists and Medical Registrars+16%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 19Computer and Information Systems Managers+16%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
- 20Massage Therapists+15%BLS Employment Projections 2025-35 → 2035
How this is ranked
Ranked by projected percent change in employment. Where a BLS projection exists we use it, so roles are compared on one methodology; otherwise we use the median of the cited projections. Horizons differ by source (the target year is shown on each row), so ranks compare different end-years. Full methodology →