1. Jobs that are increasing in demand for qualified practitioners:
? Physician assistants - $64,536 (median graduate salary)
? Physical therapists - $60,180
? Nurses - $52,330
? Clinical lab workers - $45,730
? Dental hygienists - $55,240
? Pharmacy technicians - $22,890
? Respiratory technicians - $43,140
? Substance-abuse counselors - $33,920

2. Alternative medicine is seeing demand rise for:
? Acupuncturists
? Massage Therapists
? Chiropractors

3. While many assistant positions require no more than an Associate or Bachelor’s degree, a number of fields are increasing their minimum educational standards.

4. Home health aide jobs are expected to balloon to 974,000 total jobs nationally in 2014 from 624,000 in 2004. Unfortunately, this job has a median annual salary of $18,330 and must rely on demand to expand future earning potential.

5. Credentialing for nursing-home aides, who also are in demand, is more rigorous; they have to be certified through a training program and exam and have to meet certain requirements annually to maintain their certification.

6. Home health workers have a high rate of job turnover ? about one out of five in a year leave the job. This maintains high demand for more workers, but the salary range is moving slowly, and, ironically, there are many positions that don?t provide healthcare for workers.

7. Jobs for medical coders and billers, who are responsible for data entry and claims management with insurance companies, are expected to grow 29 percent. The positions, which don’t include computer programming or setting up electronic systems, have an annual median pay of $25,590.

8. With low average annual tuition for technical schools and public community colleges, many people find them to be a more economical way of completing an Associate degree or the first two years of their education.

9. Employment for physician assistants is expected to jump nearly 50 percent to 93,000 by 2014. It’s relatively lucrative, too, with average annual earnings of $64,410.

10. As with many jobs, the more education and responsibility you have, the more you’re likely to be paid. Licensed vocational or practical nurses earned about $34,000 on average in 2004.

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