The top future jobs remain in health care, business, and technology, this according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Based on criteria established in their Occupational Outlook for 2008-09, the top future jobs (jobs paying above average wages with above average growth rate in terms of number of positions) are registered nurses, computer software application engineers, and management analysts/accountants and executive secretaries.  Each of these fields requires at least some post secondary education – which does not bode well for those with only a high school diploma. 

Of those high growth jobs paying above average wages, only a select few jobs in the construction field required no post-secondary education.  Other hot future jobs – jobs with the highest growth rate (in percent terms) had some unique occupations, such as theatrical make-up artist.  These jobs don’t necessarily rank high in terms of overall positions created they are the fastest growing with good wages.