{"id":7288,"date":"2012-06-12T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=7288"},"modified":"2012-06-12T10:45:48","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T15:45:48","slug":"the-10-fastest-growing-oklahoma-jobs-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/06\/12\/the-10-fastest-growing-oklahoma-jobs-of-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The 10 Fastest-Growing Oklahoma Jobs … of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When it comes to income, stress,\u00a0surroundings\u00a0and job openings, petroleum engineers in Oklahoma have a pretty sweet gig.<\/p>

And though that might be the best job in Oklahoma<\/a> right now, it’s not the biggest employment opportunity down the road, data from the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission show.<\/p>

Growth-wise, pills might outpace petroleum when it comes to jobs.<\/p>

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Fastest\u2010Growing Occupations\u00a02008\u20102018<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Rank<\/th>\nJob<\/th>\nMean Hourly Wage<\/th>\nAverage Annual Increase<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1.<\/td>\nPharmacy technicians<\/td>\n$11.62<\/td>\n4.03%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.<\/td>\nHeating, air conditioning, and refrigeration mechanics and installers<\/td>\n$17.92<\/td>\n3.94%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.<\/td>\nHome health aides<\/td>\n$9.53<\/td>\n3.78%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.<\/td>\nPersonal and home care aides<\/td>\n$8.42<\/td>\n3.18%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5.<\/td>\nRegistered nurses<\/td>\n$25.58<\/td>\n2.75%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6.<\/td>\nFirefighters<\/td>\n$17.23<\/td>\n2.65%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7.<\/td>\nTraining and development specialists<\/td>\n$20.19<\/td>\n2.54%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8.<\/td>\nDental assistants<\/td>\n$14.17<\/td>\n2.42%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9.<\/td>\nMedical assistants<\/td>\n$12.48<\/td>\n2.36%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10.<\/td>\nIndustrial machinery mechanics<\/td>\n$19.92<\/td>\n2.35%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>

Source<\/a>: Oklahoma Employment Security Commission<\/em><\/p>

Home health and personal care aides are the only two jobs on the list that don’t require post-high school education, commission officials say.<\/p>

Training and development specialists need at least a bachelor’s degree, but most of the 10 fastest-growing jobs have education requirements somewhere in-between: from on-the-job training and vocational certificates to associate degrees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When it comes to income, stress,\u00a0surroundings\u00a0and job openings, petroleum engineers in Oklahoma have a pretty sweet gig.And though that might be the best job in Oklahoma right now, it’s not the biggest employment opportunity down the road, data from the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission show.Growth-wise, pills might outpace petroleum when it comes to jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":7290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,15],"tags":[367],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7301,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7288\/revisions\/7301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}