Best Jobs for 21st Century
This Is a Big Book, But It Is Very Easy to Use
This book is designed to help you explore career options in a variety of
interesting ways. The nice thing about it is that you don’t have to read it
all. Instead, we designed it to allow you to browse and find information that
most interests you.
The table of contents will give you a good idea of what’s inside and how to use
the book, so we suggest you start there. Part I of the book is made up of inter-
esting lists that will help you explore jobs based on pay, interests, education
level, personality type, and many other criteria. Part II provides descriptions for
each job included in the book. Just find a job that interests you in one of the
lists in Part I and look up its description in Part II. Simple.
How We Selected the Best Jobs for
the 21st Century
Deciding on the “best” job is a choice that only you can make, but objective
criteria can help you identify jobs that are, for example, better paying than other
jobs with similar duties. Here is an explanation of the process we used to deter-
mine which jobs to include in this book.
We sorted 905 major jobs in terms of earnings, growth rate through 2012, and
number of annual openings. We then assigned a number to their relative posi-
tion on each list, with 1 being the best. The job position numbers on the three
lists were then combined, and the jobs were ranked by total score. We included
the top 500 jobs in the book. The first list in Part I is called “The 500 Best Jobs
Overall,” and it contains the 500 best jobs in order of their combined scores on
all three measures (earnings, growth rate, and openings).
Of the 905 major jobs, one was a job called Postsecondary Teachers, which is
actually a composite that we created from 36 specialized postsecondary teaching
jobs that are described by Department of Labor databases. A list of these special-
ized job titles is provided in the introduction to Part I.
You can find descriptions for all 500 best jobs in Part II, along with descriptions
of the various specialized postsecondary teaching jobs, for a total of 535 descriptions in all.
interesting ways. The nice thing about it is that you don’t have to read it
all. Instead, we designed it to allow you to browse and find information that
most interests you.
The table of contents will give you a good idea of what’s inside and how to use
the book, so we suggest you start there. Part I of the book is made up of inter-
esting lists that will help you explore jobs based on pay, interests, education
level, personality type, and many other criteria. Part II provides descriptions for
each job included in the book. Just find a job that interests you in one of the
lists in Part I and look up its description in Part II. Simple.
How We Selected the Best Jobs for
the 21st Century
Deciding on the “best” job is a choice that only you can make, but objective
criteria can help you identify jobs that are, for example, better paying than other
jobs with similar duties. Here is an explanation of the process we used to deter-
mine which jobs to include in this book.
We sorted 905 major jobs in terms of earnings, growth rate through 2012, and
number of annual openings. We then assigned a number to their relative posi-
tion on each list, with 1 being the best. The job position numbers on the three
lists were then combined, and the jobs were ranked by total score. We included
the top 500 jobs in the book. The first list in Part I is called “The 500 Best Jobs
Overall,” and it contains the 500 best jobs in order of their combined scores on
all three measures (earnings, growth rate, and openings).
Of the 905 major jobs, one was a job called Postsecondary Teachers, which is
actually a composite that we created from 36 specialized postsecondary teaching
jobs that are described by Department of Labor databases. A list of these special-
ized job titles is provided in the introduction to Part I.
You can find descriptions for all 500 best jobs in Part II, along with descriptions
of the various specialized postsecondary teaching jobs, for a total of 535 descriptions in all.
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