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Occupation Growth

The question to ask now is what types of occupations will grow in the next ten years? Professional and related occupations will grow the fastest and add more new jobs than any other major occupational group. From 2000–2010, a 26 percent increase in the number of professional and related jobs is projected, a gain of 6.9 million. Professional and related workers perform a wide variety of duties, and are employed throughout private industry and government. Nearly three-quarters of the job growth will come from three groups of professional occupations—computer occupations, health care practitioners and technical occupations, and education, training, and library occupations—which will add 5.2 million jobs combined.

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