9. Highway maintenance workers
Job increase: 47,600
Highway maintenance workers also perform physically demanding job mainly because they work in almost all weather conditions. They often must lift heavy objects and spend most of the time standing beside roads. Their median annual wage is $39, 540 while in Connecticut they receive $53,360. Idaho will see the greatest job increase adding 580 new positions annually by 2024.
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