The U.S. labor market is projected to add nearly 5.9 million jobs between 2025 and 2035 and with AI replacing coders left and right, maybe it's time for a career transition?
This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, ranks 30 occupations by their projected increase in employment over the decade.
The data for this visualization comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, using employment projections for 2025 to 2035.
The figures measure the net increase in employment for each occupation rather than total job openings, which can also include positions created when existing workers retire or change careers.
Home Care Dominates U.S. Job GrowthHome health and personal care aides stand far above every other occupation, with 847,300 new jobs projected by 2035. That represents about 14% of all net new jobs expected across the U.S. economy over the decade.
Rank Occupation New jobs by 2035P Median wage, 2025 1 Home & Personal Care Aides 847K $35,800 2 Stockers & Order Fillers 251K $37,330 3 Fast Food Workers 223K $31,200 4 Registered Nurses 195K $97,550 5 Operations Managers 181K $105,770 6 Software Developers 175K $135,980 7 Restaurant Cooks 171K $37,390 8 Health Services Managers 155K $123,860 9 Nurse Practitioners 138K $132,300 10 Construction Laborers 109K $47,120 11 Management Analysts 109K $101,860 12 IT Managers 108K $175,140 13 Medical Assistants 108K $45,690 14 Mental Health Counselors 98K $59,350 15 Data Scientists 95K $120,230 16 Financial Managers 85K $166,570 17 Heavy Truck Drivers 84K $58,640 18 Industrial Mechanics 80K $64,520 19 Accountants & Auditors 79K $83,680 20 Electricians 76K $63,190 21 Project Managers 73K $102,320 22 Maintenance Workers 69K $49,590 23 Light Truck Drivers 68K $44,860 24 Food Service Supervisors 67K $44,080 25 Market Research Analysts 66K $78,760 26 Other Managers 66K $141,900 27 HR Specialists 60K $75,940 28 Landscaping Workers 56K $39,150 29 Construction Managers 55K $114,990 30 Janitors & Cleaners 54K $36,840Demand is being fueled in part by America’s aging population and a shift toward providing long-term care in home and community settings. The Census Bureau projects that adults age 65 and older will outnumber children under 18 by 2029.
Healthcare and Tech Roles Are Growing QuicklyHealthcare occupations appear throughout the ranking, including registered nurses, medical assistants, nurse practitioners, and medical and health services managers.
Nurse practitioners are projected to grow 41% between 2025 and 2035, the fastest percentage increase among the occupations shown, while adding nearly 138,000 jobs.
Technology also remains a major source of higher-paying employment, with software developers projected to add about 175,000 jobs and data scientists another 95,000. Both occupations had median annual wages above $120,000 in 2025.
Job Growth Spans the Wage SpectrumSome of the country’s biggest sources of new jobs are relatively low-paying service occupations.
Eleven of the 30 occupations shown have median annual wages below the overall U.S. median of $50,980, including home health and personal care aides, fast food workers, restaurant cooks, and light truck drivers.
At the other end of the spectrum, the ranking includes IT managers, financial managers, software developers, and nurse practitioners, all with median wages above $130,000.
The Skills Shaping the Jobs of the FutureLooking ahead, the skills needed in the labor market are also expected to shift.
According to the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Report 2025, nearly 40% of skills required on the job are expected to change by 2030.
While demand for AI, big data, and cybersecurity skills is rising quickly, employers also continue to prioritize human capabilities such as analytical thinking, creative thinking, resilience, leadership, and collaboration.
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Tyler Durden Mon, 10/05/2026 - 05:45Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news,
A French police commander in his sixties was chased, knocked down and kicked in the head until he blacked out outside a Belfort high school on Friday morning. Prosecutors have opened an investigation for attempted murder of a public official.
The officer is the local chief of territorial intelligence. He was in plain clothes, trying to arrest a youth suspected of starting a fire.
This is not a scuffle on the edge of a school complaint. It is the second mob hunt of a lone officer in two days, filmed, shared, and dressed up by parts of the press as a student protest about classrooms.
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Several young men repeatedly punch and kick a police officer in the head at a park near the Gustave Courbet School in the eastern French city of Belfort. The officer was knocked unconscious.
Approximate location: 47.652447, 6.855094@GeoConfirmed pic.twitter.com/0dIezS4qPK
Posting several clips in the event some are removed by X:
??WARNING - City of Belfort, France?
Horrific
Migrant kids take down a police officer and almost kill him.
"An investigation has been opened for attempted voluntary homicide on a person vested with public authority by Belfort prosecutors" https://t.co/WPLp275xbZ
?#Choc : #Belfort, un commandant de police âgé de 59 ans a été passé à tabac par plusieurs jeunes avant de perdre connaissance.
Une enquête a été ouverte pour « tentative de meurtre sur personne dépositaire de l'autorité publique.#France #Violence #Crise pic.twitter.com/mK9vl1QbpH
Violence from rioters of African and Arabic origins keeps ramping up today against the police in France. In the video, a murder attempt is carried out on a police officer in Belfort. pic.twitter.com/3KafdNdrOi
— RagingDissidentBackup (@JustRaging02) October 2, 2026The attack happened at about 9:15 a.m. on Friday, October 2, on the grass near Lycée Gustave-Courbet. Belfort prosecutor Paul-Édouard Lallois said the commander "was set upon by a wild horde of young people who knocked him to the ground and beat him with punches and kicks, particularly to the head." Most of the attackers had hoods up or faces covered. Reinforcements scattered them. The officer had already lost consciousness.
Lallois called it "a scene of unheard-of violence" and said "we came within two fingers of a tragedy." Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez wrote that the images were of "a rare violence" and "unbearable," that the officer had been "deliberately targeted," and that "everything will be done to identify the authors of this abject act."
Nuñez added that the commander was hospitalized after losing consciousness, and that his condition "fortunately no longer inspires major concern." On Saturday, police sources told France Télévisions the first exams were reassuring and the injuries were superficial trauma.
He was treated at Trévenans hospital with bruises and open wounds to the face, and Lallois said he was "particularly shocked, marked by the savagery of the assault," with "very visible marks of blows on his face."
The Alliance police union posted the footage with a blunt line: a cop "hunted like prey, caught, thrown to the ground and struck in the face several times, several against one." The union's verdict: "This is no longer anti-cop hatred. IT IS A HUNT FOR COPS."
The commander heads the departmental territorial intelligence service for the Territoire de Belfort. He was not standing in a cordon. He had just tried to arrest a youth suspected of starting a fire on the grass around the school and of throwing a projectile at officers. The prefecture said that youth was carrying a bag containing hydrochloric acid and protective equipment. The youth got away when the pack closed in.
A separate clip of the arrest, shot in a stream beside the school, was then waved around as proof the officer had tried to drown a teenager. Lallois shut that down on Saturday. "It is the individual who deliberately goes into the water" while trying to escape, he said. Both of them fell. "The youth cannot be immersed in the water, there is not enough water to be immersed." The commander was on his knees in the stream. The suspect was then cuffed on the bank.
?? A police officer ATTEMPT TO DROWN a high school student today in Belfort, France
He can be seen holding the young man's head underwater for long seconds. pic.twitter.com/Sga3GRLGLg
That same suspect is now one of the people investigators want. Lallois said several people have been identified as likely principal authors, and that he was "fairly optimistic" they could be arrested within 24 hours. The youth the commander had handcuffed is "clearly identified as coming to deliver two violent kicks to the head of the police officer," recognizable on the video by the cuff still on his wrist.
Friday's beating landed on top of Thursday's hunt in Paris. A trainee lieutenant with the Paris police prefecture was chased on foot near Avenue Gambetta, in the 20th arrondissement, during a lycée gathering. Voices on the recording call her a "bitch" and scream "Kill her."
Someone trips her. Others kick her on the ground, including to the head. She filed a complaint. Nuñez called the attack intolerable and said a young trainee lieutenant "was pursued, thrown to the ground and assaulted by several individuals."
Marine Le Pen wrote: "The image of this young policewoman, pursued by a pack howling its hatred, thrown to the ground and assaulted, is unbearable. These acts deserve exemplary sentences. Let her know that tonight, millions of French people offer her warm support."
The official story is still that this is a pupil movement about absent teachers, overcrowded rooms and late buses. Education Minister Édouard Geffray said the movement had been "taken hostage by ultra-violent small groups."
On Thursday alone the Interior Ministry counted 1,949 arrests and 305 injured officers. Geffray said 235 people in the education sector had been hurt, including 65 school staff. About 400 schools were closed on Friday. Nuñez sent the BRAV-M motorcycle units into Paris and said that when police use force on his orders, "they are not facing demonstrators but rioters."
Footage shows burning classrooms, buses and fire engines set alight, shops looted, and packs going after female officers. The media is adamant that this is not about race or demographics, while those on the receiving end in virtually every single instance are white native French people.
French politician Éric Zemmour urged "This has nothing to do with bad school conditions. Plain and simple. These are ethnic riots and demographics is destiny. Without remigration, this is the fate of all Western European nations."
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Tyler Durden Mon, 10/05/2026 - 05:00Cowen analysts led by Itay Michaeli say the EV market has entered the early stages of stabilization as a combination of more self-driving capabilities and elevated gas and diesel prices has shifted consumers toward these vehicles.
"We are still in the early stages of this looming EV comeback," Michaeli told Bloomberg in an interview on Friday. "EV market coverage, by our estimation, will grow substantially in the next couple of years by existing players."
A welcome sign of stabilization came as Tesla and Rivian reported third-quarter deliveries above Wall Street expectations.
Tesla reported deliveries of 486,532 EVs in the most recent quarter, a decline of just 2.1% and well ahead of the roughly 464,000 average analyst estimate, while Rivian delivered 19,248 vehicles in the third quarter, well above the roughly 17,600 expected.
Cox Automotive reports that US EV market share has settled near 6% this year, well below the 11% reached during the rush to buy EVs before the federal tax credit expired.
Another signal of stabilization comes from Randy Parker, chief executive officer of Hyundai's North America business, who said, "Because of the war, because of gas prices, we've also seen a rise and a recovery in EV sales," adding, "I've got more and more dealers now asking for EV product."
Google Trends searches for "used EV for sale near me" skyrocketed this year as gasoline and diesel prices stayed elevated.
Barclays autos analyst Dan Levy recently noted that Tesla's Full Self-Driving capabilities have become an increasingly important selling point and are driving sales (read note here).
Tyler Durden Mon, 10/05/2026 - 04:15