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Spoiler alert: Software developers tops Business Insider’s list of the top 20 high-paying and fast-growing jobs in the US.To get the top 20 job titles, Business Insider looked at jobs projected to see employment increase between 2022 and 2032 and had median annual wages greater than the median annual wage for all jobs in the US, which was $48,060.The annual wage estimates used were part of the release of May 2023 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics estimates published by the Bureau of La…
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Rose Almond was over her 9-to-5 job as a mechanical engineer.“It was not a good place to be for a young female engineer,” she told Business Insider. “It didn’t really suit me being in the office environment.“Plus, Almond said working a nights-and-weekends side hustle of freelance gigs was exhausting. So she quit her day job in 2015.Now, she gets to choose her own schedule and which projects she works on.“I knew something had to give,” she said.Almond lives in Canada and is fully self-employed as…
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LinkedIn released its annual US list of the best big employers for career growth this week, and JPMorgan Chase & Co. ranked No. 1.A few kinds of employers emerge among LinkedIn’s top 15 large companies for US career growth including financial-services giants like JPMorgan and Wells Fargo, telecom companies AT&T and Verizon, and the Big Four accounting firms Deloitte and PwC.“This year’s honorees are proving that investment in the employee experience is vital in today’s workplaces,” the report sa…
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If you just recently entered the labor force, you may be curious what happened to the sky-high job openings, the massive number of people quitting during the Great Resignation, and hot wage growth.Well, the labor market is looking more like the healthy but boring era of 2018 or 2019, Nick Bunker, economic research director for North America at the Indeed Hiring Lab, told Business Insider. That’s opposed to the wild swings we saw during the COVID-19 pandemic.Bunker said we’re seeing less drama in…
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Pediatric surgeon is the highest-paying job in the US with an average annual wage of $449,320.That’s roughly seven times higher than the $65,470 average for all occupations.Some other high-paying jobs based on average annual wages were dermatologists, pathologists, and chief executives.Business Insider looked at the latest average pay figures for detailed-level occupations from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) program. The most recent update publ…
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Amber Peacock, 28, grew up in England and lived in Scotland with her now-husband. Now her family is living their American dream in south Florida.“My husband and I from a very young age, separately before we crossed paths, have always wanted to move to America,” Peacock said. She said they met while they were working at a New York summer camp in 2017. “Neither of us can really say exactly why because we both had that desire before we’d ever visited America.“Peacock said she’s happy living in the…
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Michele Sobel said painting has always been like a good friend.“It’s been something that I’ve just kept by my side,” she told Business Insider. “It’s an unconditional love.“She’s been painting since childhood, and went on to turn that passion into a side hustle and now her full-time business.“I never stopped painting, although I never pursued it as a professional career until later in life,” Sobel said.Her love for art has now become her sole source of income. While artists typically use a sketc…
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Kaelyn Dannenfelser, 28, said while she misses her friends in Nashville, Tennessee, and loved being able to live there, she’s definitely not moving back.Dannenfelser said Nashville, where she had lived after graduating from college in 2018, can be a good city to live in during your early 20s given it has a lot of young adults, is lively, and can be a fun place.But she said she was looking forward to finding somewhere to live that didn’t have as much party tourism as Nashville, noting that there…
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Texas had several counties that saw the quickest population growth between 2022 and 2023.According to a press release from the Census Bureau, six of the 10 fastest-growing counties among places with at least 20,000 people in 2022 and 2023 were in that state. That result is based on the percent increases in population from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023.The recently published population data involves the 3,144 counties and county-equivalents in the US and shows the population for these areas as of…
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Side hustles can be anything from building a profitable business to spending a few minutes completing an online survey or working a second job that falls outside your primary work schedule.“For people who are looking for a side hustle, think about the time of year that we’re in and sort of some of the bigger events or ongoings that people really love to go to,” Kira Caban, the head of strategic communications for Instawork — a platform where people can find flexible work — told Business Insider.…
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Data from the Consumer Price Index released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Tuesday showed inflation, by this measure, unexpectedly accelerated slightly in February.After starting 2024 with an inflation rate of 3.1% in January, the year-over-year CPI percent change was 3.2% in February. The forecast was 3.1%.“The CPI has come in hotter than expected, and that’s disappointing,” Mark Hamrick, a senior economic analyst for Bankrate, told Business Insider. “It’s disappointing because Americans…
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The median earnings of women in New Hampshire was over $18,000 less than the median for men, while neighboring Vermont had a gap of just $6,450, which was the smallest difference between the earnings of men and women among the states.That’s based on a recent Chamber of Commerce post that highlighted how the pay gap looked by state using 2022 American Community Survey data from the Census Bureau. The post cited median data for full-time, year-round workers that have earnings. The new post was pub…
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It’s no secret there’s a housing shortage in the US, and it’s not likely to get better any time soon. Hannah Jones, senior economic research analyst for Realtor.com, told Business Insider this year “will still be a challenging housing market.”“Buyers are seeing less home inventory, less homes for sale in the market, and sellers are less incentivized to sell in today’s market,” Jones said.That’s partly due to relatively high mortgage rates, Jones added.“Also, they would then have to buy into a hi…
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February’s job growth was strong and similar to January’s revised job gain.According to Friday’s news release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US experienced job growth of 275,000 in February. That was above the forecast of 198,000. That also was larger than January’s revised growth of 229,000. January’s prior estimate was 353,000, as noted in the news release published in February.“This is exactly the progress that we want to see,” Acting Secretary of Labor Julie Su told Business Inside…
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Sunnyvale, California, has over 150,000 people, multiple parks, a Google campus, Lockheed Martin work opportunities, and also hosts the headquarters of job search and networking platform LinkedIn.This city is also where renters can see their money go the furthest among 189 places in a recent analysis from RentCafe.A financial balance score was calculated for 189 US cities, which was then used to rank these places. The overall score for the ranking wasn’t simply about how rent compares to someone…
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Chisom Okwulehie, 35, told Business Insider she thought she wouldn’t start a business until she was in her 40s. But she ended up starting one in 2021, years ahead of her plans, and it’s paying off.Okwulehie said she was surprised Juntero Design, which she owns and is a subsidiary of her and her husband’s business Juntero, has become her main source of income. Juntero provides architecture services like designs and 3D models as well as non-architecture services like graphic design or photo editin…
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A new analysis from career-site Indeed showed many occupations had a large share of job postings not mention specific education requirements, such as for retail or nursing.The chart below, based on Indeed data that was shared with Business Insider, shows the type of education level noted in US job postings by sector in January. Given there could be multiple education backgrounds noted, the new analysis looked at the lowest one cited in a given posting.Cory Stahle, an economist at the Indeed Hiri…
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People searching for work, such as the 1.5 million unemployed high school graduates aged 25 and older with no college, may be in luck: Job postings are less likely to have formal educational requirements than a few years ago.That’s according to a new report from career-site Indeed analyzing educational requirements in US job postings since January 2019. The report also noted that 87% of the 47 occupational sectors looked at had fewer postings with bachelor’s degree or higher educational requirem…
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Scott, 32, wants to make the most out of life, which would include not having to work 40 hours a week for the rest of his days. He’s a financial analyst who wants to be able to eventually enjoy a paid-off forever home as a family and do what he considers early retirement.“I recently got diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease, and I’m just looking at it from a realistic perspective,” Scott, whose last name has been verified with Business Insider but left out due to privacy reasons, said. “It ma…
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Jackie Mitchell says she was able to save up for a down payment to buy her first home with her husband in part by making money through side hustles and passive income.To get to what she would be comfortable with for a down payment, Mitchell, 26, set a goal to earn an extra $100 daily for 100 days. She started in September, and the couple closed on a home a few months later.“We moved pretty quickly once we got the funds and kind of found a house we loved right away,” she said, adding that the sid…
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Inflation as measured by the consumer price index, or CPI, came in above the forecast for January.January’s year-over-year rise in the CPI was expected to be 2.9%, which would’ve been a massive slowdown from December’s 3.4% reading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said on Tuesday that the year-over-year change was 3.1%, slightly higher than the forecast.CPI increased by 0.3% month over month in January. That’s just above the forecast of 0.2% and above December’s month-over-month increase of 0.2%.…
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