Jill Jaracz

50 fastest-growing jobs for the future

Mixed signals in the job market make it difficult for job seekers to understand which career fields will provide stability and good job opportunities. In the first eight months of 2025, the unemployment rate has held steady between 4.0 and 4.3% , yet job growth has seen a slowdown, with 487,000 new jobs added , compared to 1.03 million in the same period a year earlier.

That's not to say that job seekers have a murky future, because some industries are booming. Stacker rounded up and researched the 50 fastest-growing jobs ranked by the projected growth rate between 2024 and 2034 in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Outlook Handbook . Any professions that tied in projected growth were broken by that vocation's 2024 med

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