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Real Estate Brokers

Marketing $28.32 High school diploma or equivalent 3%  projected growth 60  annual job openings

Operate real estate office, or work for commercial real estate firm, overseeing real estate transactions. Other duties usually include selling real estate or renting properties and arranging loans.

Real Estate Sales Agents

Marketing $24.92 High school diploma or equivalent 3%  projected growth 470  annual job openings

Rent, buy, or sell property for clients. Perform duties such as study property listings, interview prospective clients, accompany clients to property site, discuss conditions of sale, and draw up real estate contracts. Includes agents who represent buyer.

Recreation and Fitness Studies Teachers, Postsecondary

Education & Training $34.48 Doctoral or professional degree 4%  projected growth 20  annual job openings

Teach courses pertaining to recreation, leisure, and fitness studies, including exercise physiology and facilities management. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

Recreational Vehicle Service Technicians

Transportation, Distribution & Logistics $17.50 High school diploma or equivalent 15%  projected growth 40  annual job openings

Diagnose, inspect, adjust, repair, or overhaul recreational vehicles including travel trailers. May specialize in maintaining gas, electrical, hydraulic, plumbing, or chassis/towing systems as well as repairing generators, appliances, and interior components. Includes workers who perform customized van conversions.

Registered Nurses

Health Science $30.33 Bachelor's degree 8%  projected growth 3,180  annual job openings

Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required.

Rehabilitation Counselors

Human Services $22.99 Master's degree 3%  projected growth 90  annual job openings

Counsel individuals to maximize the independence and employability of persons coping with personal, social, and vocational difficulties that result from birth defects, illness, disease, accidents, aging, or the stress of daily life. Coordinate activities for residents of care and treatment facilities. Assess client needs and design and implement rehabilitation programs that may include personal and vocational counseling, training, and job placement.

Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers

Architecture & Construction $23.13 High school diploma or equivalent 9%  projected growth 10  annual job openings

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.

Reservation and Transportation Ticket Agents and Travel Clerks

Hospitality & Tourism $16.13 High school diploma or equivalent 9%  projected growth 40  annual job openings

Make and confirm reservations for transportation or lodging, or sell transportation tickets. May check baggage and direct passengers to designated concourse, pier, or track; deliver tickets and contact individuals and groups to inform them of package tours; or provide tourists with travel or transportation information.

Riggers

Architecture & Construction $17.99 High school diploma or equivalent 13%  projected growth 40  annual job openings

Set up or repair rigging for construction projects, manufacturing plants, logging yards, ships and shipyards, or for the entertainment industry.

Roofers

Architecture & Construction $18.60 No formal educational credential 10%  projected growth 140  annual job openings

Cover roofs of structures with shingles, slate, asphalt, aluminum, wood, or related materials. May spray roofs, sidings, and walls with material to bind, seal, insulate, or soundproof sections of structures.