Because we were interested in jobs that pay at least the median annual wage, we excluded jobs that paid less than $45,760 a year, the median wage for all occupations in 2021 per data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Home health and personal care aides, which has a typical education requirement of a high school diploma or equivalent, are projected to grow the most between 2021 and 2031 with over 924,000 new jobs. But this occupation pays $29,430, $16,330 less than the median wage in 2021. Therefore, it's one job that was excluded in our analysis of high-paying, growing jobs., we filtered our list so only occupations that typically need a high school diploma or equivalent for entry were left.
In addition to median annual wages and projected change in employment, we included above on-the-job training for each occupation. This comes from six categories listed by and can range from no on-the job-training to long-term on-the-job training, the latter taking over 12 months.