According to the employment department, registered nurses are the “hottest” profession in the county (their word, not mine), meaning they have the best combination of relatively high pay and good prospects for job growth.
Nurses are also an important component of one of the “hottest” industries in the county (my word, not theirs), according to the San Diego Institute for Policy Research.
In a report last month, the institute noted that with 127,000 workers and a $5 billion annual payroll, San Diego's health care and social services industry is nearly as big as the tourist industry, but with a much heftier payroll. Health care is three times the size of the biotech industry, which gets so much attention from economic-development types.
