HOW TO SELECTING THE BEST JOBS FOR YOU
Choosing
an occupation is personal, and of course, there is no ideal way to determine
the best job overall. However, the U.S. News Best
Jobs rankings offer job-seekers an intuitive method to compare
professions based on the components that matter most: salary, the number of
expected openings, advancement opportunities and career fulfillment.
The result
of our efforts is a list of jobs ranked according to their ability to meet
those employment concerns. The Best
Jobs methodology is divided into two parts:
-how U.S. News selects jobs to
profile, and
-how those jobs are ranked against each other.
SELECTING THE JOBS
To
identify the professions that should be included in our 2016 rankings, we
started with data on jobs with the greatest hiring demand, or, in other words,
those with the highest projected number of openings from 2014 to 2024, as
categorized by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The jobs
that topped the list were then selected for the 2016 Best Jobs analysis and
rankings.
RANKING THE JOBS
U.S. News
ranks jobs in an
overall list and in 12 mutually exclusive occupational industry
lists: Best
Business Jobs, Best
Construction Jobs, Best
Creative and Media Jobs, Best
Education Jobs, Best
Engineering Jobs, Best
Health Care Jobs, Health
Care Support Jobs, Best
Maintenance and Repair Jobs, Best
Sales and Marketing Jobs, Best
Science Jobs, Best
Social Services Jobs and Best
Technology Jobs.
Professions are ranked based on our calculated overall
score, which combines several components into a single weighted average score
between 0 and 5.
COMPONENT MEASURES - SELECTING THE JOBS
The
overall score is calculated from seven component measures, and for each
measure, jobs receive a score between 0 and 10.
Here are the component measures
and their weights in computing the overall score:
- Median Salary (30
percent)
- Employment Rate (20
percent)
- 10-Year Growth Volume
(15 percent)
- 10-Year Growth
Percentage (15 percent)
- Job Prospects (10
percent)
- Stress Level (5 percent)
- Work-Life Balance (5
percent)
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