Construction and healthcare-related fields are expected to see exponential growth in the next decade, while jobs at the Post Office and newspapers, well, may go the way of the dodo.
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Largest Percentage of Growth and Decline by Industry
– Home health care services: 6.1
– Individual and family services: 5.5
– Management, scientific, and technical consulting services: 4.7
– Veneer, plywood, and engineered wood product manufacturing: 3.9
– Computer systems design and related services: 3.9
– Cement and concrete product manufacturing: 3.2
– Outpatient, laboratory, and other ambulatory care services: 3.2
– Offices of health practitioners: 3.2
– Software publishers: 3.1
– Construction: 2.9
– Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment rental and leasing: 2.9
– Other professional, scientific, and technical services: 2.9
– Facilities support services: 2.9
– Community and vocational rehabilitation services: 2.9
– Lessors of nonfinancial intangible assets (except copyrighted works): 2.9
– Other educational services: 2.7
– Automotive repair and maintenance: 2.6
– Grantmaking and giving services and social advocacy organizations: 2.6
– Sawmills and wood preservation: 2.6
– Child day care services: 2.6
– Petroleum and coal products manufacturing: -1.3
– Newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers: -1.3
– Pulp, paper, and paperboard mills: -1.4
– Fiber, yarn, and thread mills: -1.4
– Iron and steel mills and ferroalloy manufacturing: -1.4
– Electrical equipment manufacturing: -1.5
– Metalworking machinery manufacturing: -1.6
– Glass and glass product manufacturing: -1.6
– Basic chemical manufacturing: -1.6
– Other chemical product and preparation manufacturing: -1.9
– Other miscellaneous manufacturing: -2.3
– Federal enterprises except the Postal Service and electric utilities: -2.4
– Metal ore mining: -2.5
– Pesticide, fertilizer, and other agricultural chemical manufacturing: -2.5
– Pipeline transportation: -2.6
– Communications equipment manufacturing: -3.1
– Computer and peripheral equipment manufacturing: -3.1
– Postal Service: -3.2
– Leather and hide tanning and finishing, and other leather and allied product manufacturing: -7.6
– Apparel knitting mills: -8.3
