5 Health Care Jobs on the Rise
Occupations in the industry are increasingly in demand because of an aging population and longer life spans.
Nurse practitioners, a fast-growing health care job, working with patients taking part in a Covid-19 vaccine trial in Houston in February. Credit...Brandon Thibodeaux for The New York Times
By Kerry Hannon
This article is part of our new series on the
, which examines changes in the medical field.
Economists at the Labor Department project that from 2019 to 2029 employment in health care in the United States will grow 15 percent, much faster than the average for all occupations, adding about 2.4 million new jobs during that span.