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Personal Care Aides 
Average Salary:
$19,730
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Assist the elderly, convalescents, or persons with disabilities with daily living activities at the person's home or in a care facility. Duties performed at a place of residence may include keeping house (making beds, doing laundry, washing dishes) and preparing meals. May provide assistance at non-residential care facilities. May advise families, the elderly, convalescents, and persons with disabilities regarding such things as nutrition, cleanliness, and household activities.
Home Health Aides
Average Salary:
$20,610
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Provide routine individualized healthcare such as changing bandages and dressing wounds, and applying topical medications to the elderly, convalescents, or persons with disabilities at the patient's home or in a care facility. Monitor or report changes in health status. May also provide personal care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming of patient.
Biomedical Engineers 
Average Salary:
$84,670
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
Apply knowledge of engineering, biology, and biomechanical principles to the design, development, and evaluation of biological and health systems and products, such as artificial organs, prostheses, instrumentation, medical information systems, and health management and care delivery systems.
Helpers--Brickmasons, Blockmasons, Stonemasons, and Tile and Marble Setters
Average Salary:
$27,820
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Help brickmasons, blockmasons, stonemasons, or tile and marble setters by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.
Helpers--Carpenters
Average Salary:
$26,400
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Help carpenters by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.
Veterinary Technologists and Technicians
Average Salary:
$30,140
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Perform medical tests in a laboratory environment for use in the treatment and diagnosis of diseases in animals. Prepare vaccines and serums for prevention of diseases. Prepare tissue samples, take blood samples, and execute laboratory tests, such as urinalysis and blood counts. Clean and sterilize instruments and materials and maintain equipment and machines. May assist a veterinarian during surgery.
Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers
Average Salary:
$37,990
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Position and secure steel bars or mesh in concrete forms in order to reinforce concrete. Use a variety of fasteners, rod-bending machines, blowtorches, and hand tools. Includes rod busters.
Physical Therapist Assistants
Average Salary:
$51,040
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Assist physical therapists in providing physical therapy treatments and procedures. May, in accordance with State laws, assist in the development of treatment plans, carry out routine functions, document the progress of treatment, and modify specific treatments in accordance with patient status and within the scope of treatment plans established by a physical therapist. Generally requires formal training.
Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters
Average Salary:
$27,010
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Help plumbers, pipefitters, steamfitters, or pipelayers by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include using, supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment.
Meeting, Convention, and Event Planners
Average Salary:
$46,020
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
Coordinate activities of staff, convention personnel, or clients to make arrangements for group meetings, events, or conventions.
Diagnostic Medical Sonographers
Average Salary:
$65,210
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Produce ultrasonic recordings of internal organs for use by physicians.
Occupational Therapy Assistants
Average Salary:
$52,040
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Assist occupational therapists in providing occupational therapy treatments and procedures. May, in accordance with State laws, assist in development of treatment plans, carry out routine functions, direct activity programs, and document the progress of treatments. Generally requires formal training.
Physical Therapist Aides
Average Salary:
$23,680
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Under close supervision of a physical therapist or physical therapy assistant, perform only delegated, selected, or routine tasks in specific situations. These duties include preparing the patient and the treatment area.
Glaziers
Average Salary:
$37,350
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Install glass in windows, skylights, store fronts, and display cases, or on surfaces, such as building fronts, interior walls, ceilings, and tabletops.
Interpreters and Translators
Average Salary:
$44,160
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
Interpret oral or sign language, or translate written text from one language into another.
Medical Secretaries
Average Salary:
$31,060
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Perform secretarial duties using specific knowledge of medical terminology and hospital, clinic, or laboratory procedures. Duties may include scheduling appointments, billing patients, and compiling and recording medical charts, reports, and correspondence.
Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
Average Salary:
$60,250
Most Common Degree:
Bachelor's Degree
Research market conditions in local, regional, or national areas, or gather information to determine potential sales of a product or service, or create a marketing campaign. May gather information on competitors, prices, sales, and methods of marketing and distribution.
Marriage and Family Therapists
Average Salary:
$46,240
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Diagnose and treat mental and emotional disorders, whether cognitive, affective, or behavioral, within the context of marriage and family systems. Apply psychotherapeutic and family systems theories and techniques in the delivery of services to individuals, couples, and families for the purpose of treating such diagnosed nervous and mental disorders.
Brickmasons and Blockmasons
Average Salary:
$46,800
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Lay and bind building materials, such as brick, structural tile, concrete block, cinder block, glass block, and terra-cotta block, with mortar and other substances to construct or repair walls, partitions, arches, sewers, and other structures.
Physical Therapists
Average Salary:
$78,270
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Assess, plan, organize, and participate in rehabilitative programs that improve mobility, relieve pain, increase strength, and improve or correct disabling conditions resulting from disease or injury.