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20 Fastest-Growing Professional Jobs

FORTUNE

Monday, March 7, 2005

To come up with this list, we took BLS projections from 2002 to 2012, then eliminated

blue-collar and relatively uncommon jobs.

Here are the 20 jobs likely to see an increase of better than 20%.

Environmental engineers                                  54.3%

Network systems and datacom analysts           41.9%

Personal financial advisors                               36.3%

Database administrators                                    33.1%

Software engineers                                            27.8%

Emergency management specialists                 27.8%

Biomedical engineers                                        27.8%

PR specialists                                                    27.8%

Computer and infosystems managers               25.6%

Comp, benefits, and job analysts                      25.6%

Systems analysts                                               24.9%

Network and systems administrators                24.9%

Training and development specialists               22.3%

Medical scientists                                              22.1%

Marketing and sales managers                          21.3%

Computer specialists                                         20.8%

Media and communications specialists             20.6%

Counselors, social workers                                20.4%

Lawyers                                                             20.2%