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And the No. 1 job in America is …

January 13, 2017

Not on Wall Street.  Instead, look to health-care jobs, which dominated this list, in part because they require a “human element, so they can’t be exported or entirely replaced by robots” - at least, not yet.

 

Dentist is the #1 job for 2017, according to U.S. News and World Report, which looked at hiring demand, salary, employment rate, 10-year growth, future prospects, stress levels and work-life balance to determine these rankings. Dentistry scores points for high pay (median salary $152,700), low unemployment (0.1%) and solid work-life balance. That’s compared to a median salary of about $52,000 across all jobs in the U.S.; the current unemployment rate is 4.7%.

 

Anyway, here are the 10 “best” jobs in America (and the median salary for each):

 

  1.     Dentist: $152,700
  2.     Nurse practitioner: $98,190
  3.     Physician assistant: $98,180
  4.     Statistician: $80,110
  5.     Orthodontist: $187,200
  6.     Nurse anesthetist: $157,140
  7.     Pediatrician: $170,300
  8.     Computer systems analyst: $85,800
  9.     Obstetrician and gynecologist: $187,200
  10.     Oral and maxillofacial surgeon: $187,200

 

Of course, plenty of jobs that pay less well than these are still rewarding to those who do them. Marriage and family therapists make less than $50,000 a year, on average, but land on this list, as do opticians.