If you have a particular interest, odds are there’s a job in America that aligns perfectly with it. Got a knack for public speaking? Become a broadcast journalist. Love spending hours on the open road? Why not drive a truck.
For this year’s Answers Issue, we compared 40 occupations ranging from firefighters to university professors to parse out which out of the group was the fastest growing, least stressful and had a decent median salary to boot. By analyzing Bureau of Labor Statistics data on the fastest growing jobs and data from CareerCast.com on work-related stress, we were able to determine which job is America’s “best.”
