Jobs Rated Report 2016: Ranking 200 Jobs

By CareerCast.com

The job landscape never stops evolving. One needs to look no further than the 2016 CareerCast.com Jobs Rated report, now in its 28th year.

Over the course of nearly three decades, changes to the economic and career environment have rendered once desirable jobs now almost nonexistent. In their place come exciting new job prospects. New serves as a central theme for the 2016 Jobs Rated report. Careers newly added to the report made a splash.

What these latest changes tell us is how the 2016 job market and its outlook for the immediate future are shaped. IT, healthcare and mathematics are represented in those three positions, and in the current landscape, these are the cornerstone industries leading the way. That could and almost assuredly will change when the 56th Jobs Rated report is released, make no mistake. How it changes is the real question.

For a complete breakdown, view the Jobs Rated methodology.

This report ranks 200 jobs by criteria such as:

• Work environment
• Stress level
• Hiring outlook
• Median Income, etc.

Mechanical Engineers ranked #58 – with a good work environment a low stress level, a solid hiring outlook and an average income of about $83K...

Included in the 200 jobs, several other engineering jobs made the list:

• #14 Biomedical engineers
• #20 Petroleum engineers
• #37 Environmental engineers
• #38 Civil engineers
• #58 Mechanical Engineers
• #60 Aerospace engineers
• #78 Industrial engineers
• #85 Electrical engineers
• #113 Nuclear engineers

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