Top 10 Jobs in Phoenix, Arizona

The Top 10 Jobs in the City of Phoenix through 2013 are the following list of options, as reported by the State of University and county and city departments of labor in the Phoenix Metro Area:

1. Sales

2. Office & Administration

3. Construction & Extraction

4. Construction Trades (union)

5. Food Prep, Service, and related

6. Retail Sales

7. Healthcare Practitioners & Techs

8. Transportation & Material Moving

9. Education, Training, & Library

10. Management

Number 7 in the list of High-Demand Jobs, Healthcare Practitioners, including nurses, and Healthcare Techs are very highly needed in the filed of Travel Nursing and Travel Health Care Services. These jobs can include physicians, veterinarians in some locales (specially disaster sites), RNs, LPNs, Radiologists, Medical Assistants, and scores of others. This field of travel work will continue to increase in demand for jobs to be filled throughout the 21st century.

Further, as we conquer space travel and exploration, the Medical Department of any aerospace industry and any future space-venued business will demand healthcare professionals to travel with the teams of workers going to off-planet work-sites.

In the late 1970s, Ponderosa Steakhouses purchased the first rights to build a restaurant for a space station, such as MIR or the ISS. However, there was never enough room or physical stability offered in these stations, and the rights expired. The Owner and then the Board of Ponderosa were, however, thinking ahead in a way others were not yet conceiving.

At the same time, a group of physicians in Ohio has discussed a medical treatment center for patients that suffer uncontrollable high blood pressure. The reduced gravity on Luna would lower their blood pressure and these individuals would weight only 1/5 of the earthbound weights. Travel Healthcare Services will be in high demand in such scenarios. One issue to constantly address is the amount of bone loss that occurs at 1/5 earth weight. Weight-bearing exercise and nutrition go into the solution; therefore, nutritionists and physical fitness experts may be needed as well as other health related workers. The universities and colleges in and around Phoenix offer excellent training programs in several healthcare occupations, as well as other lines of work.

Travel Healthcare is a top option for current and future employment, having an increasingly bright outlook. Already offering 3-12 months of free rent, free or reimbursed travel expenses, and several other benefits, it is foreseeable that choice Travel Nurses and other healthcare workers will receive astronaut training without charge, likely provided that they sign a contract to a certain number of years of work thereafter.

The following employers have the largest worker bases and likely offer the most jobs yearly, related to turnover and promotions, as of the beginning of 2007.

Honeywell, as Number 5, is an especailly large and growing contributer to the Green Industries and Green Collar Jobs. Banner Health, at Number 2, is a well-known healthcare entity.

Top 10 Employers in the Greater Phoenix Metro Area

1. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. Employees about 26,000 workers.

2. Banner Health, 20,000

3. Wells Fargo & Co., 12,000.

4. Intel Corp., 11,000.

5. Honeywell International Inc., 10,000.

6. Raytheon Co., 10,000.

7. Bashas' Supermarkets, 10,000.

8. Home Depot Inc., 9,500.

9. Kroger Co., 9,000.

10. JP Morgan Chase & Co., 9,300.

• American Indian College of the Assemblies of God
• Arizona State University
• Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus
• Arizona State University West
• DeVry University-Phoenix
• Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
• Grand Canyon University
• High-Tech Institute
• Maricopa Community Colleges
• Northcentral University
• Northern Arizona University
• South Mountain Community College
• Phoenix College
• Paradise Valley Community College
• University of Phoenix
• Western International University