25 Most Popular Health Care Jobs

Here are the 25 most popular health care jobs in the US, based on national employment figures. Figures are current as of 2007.

Occupation	Employment
Nurses	3,187,580
Administrative support	2,657,060
Nursing assistants	1,390,260
Home health care aides	834,580
Management	530,800
Physicians and surgeons	468,000
Medical assistants	390,000
Cooks and food workers	306,000
Pharmacy technicians	301,950
Dental assistants	283,680
Clinical lab technicians and technologists	267,420
Pharmacists	253,110
Paramedics and EMTs	201,200
X-ray technologists	200,370
Medical billing and coding	197,550
Counselors	169,000
Dental hygienists	168,600
Physical therapists	161,850
Occupational therapists	91,920
Dentists	89,750
Medical transcriptionists	86,990
Surgical technologists	86,000
Physician assistants	67,160
Physical therapist assistants	59,120
Ultrasound technologists	46,770

Figures courtesy of Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor.