The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects the economy will add 5.9 million jobs from 2025 to 2035, a 3.5% increase. One market commentator has turned the agency’s new occupation rankings into an investment thesis: healthcare as the durable core, technology as the higher-upside layer, and renewables and industrials as smaller, more cyclical bets.
The headline figures are real. In the BLS list of the 20 fastest-growing occupations, nurse practitioners lead at 41%, followed by solar photovoltaic installers at 37%, data scientists at 35% and wind turbine service technicians at 30%. Medical and health services managers are projected to grow 24%, while computer and information research scientists and psychiatric technicians are each at 22%.
Healthcare has the scale advantage
Private healthcare and social assistance is projected to add more than 2.2 million jobs, about 37% of all new jobs expected through 2035. BLS ties that growth to an aging population, rising chronic illness and greater demand for home-based care. Healthcare support and healthcare practitioner roles together are expected to account for almost one-third of new jobs.
That scale underpins AskLivermore’s argument that healthcare is the “biggest and most durable demand engine” in the data and could serve as portfolio ballast. The post points to managed-care companies, medical-device makers, drugmakers and senior-housing operators as possible beneficiaries.
Technology is the more aggressive half of the thesis. BLS projects computer and mathematical occupations to grow 7.3%, driven largely by digital tools and AI. Data scientists are expected to grow 34.6%, while computer and information research scientists are projected at 21.8%. The post maps those trends to AI infrastructure, cloud platforms and cybersecurity companies, while acknowledging that those stocks can be more volatile.
