30 high-paying and fast-growing jobs in the US

• The insider took a look at the higher-than-average-paying jobs that are expected to grow.
• We analyzed both the employment forecast for 2022-2032 and the average annual salary data for May 2022.
• Software developers and financial managers took the top two positions in our ranking.

While software developers, financial managers, and medical and health services managers are all very different job types, employment in all of them is projected to grow from 2022 to 2032 and pay more than $100,000 for the typical worker.

The latest projected employment data, released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in early September, shows which occupations are likely to see growth and decline in employment between 2022 and 2032. Total employment is projected to grow by nearly 4.7 million people over that 10-year period, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a press release. At the occupational level, the BLS projects that the largest employment growth will occur in home and personal care aides, followed by software developers.

While the median annual salary for home and personal care aides was $30,180, below the median salary for all occupations of $6,310, software developers had a median salary of over $100,000.

Insider decided to look at occupations with available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that pay fairly well and are projected to see some growth over the 10-year period starting in 2022. To do this, we calculated the geometric mean for each occupation using the average annual wage for May 2022 and projected employment growth from 2022 to 2032 for each occupation.

For our definition of good-paying or high-paying jobs, we didn’t just look at jobs that average six figures. We looked at occupations with a median annual wage of more than $46,310, which was the average for all US occupations as of May 2022. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has several occupations that are common names – with the wording “all others”. For this analysis, we removed these names.

After calculating the geometric mean, we ranked the occupations based on this, where the 1st ranked occupation had the highest geometric mean. Below are the top 30 jobs in the analysis.