Yes, individuals will likely have a promising career if they study one or more of the STEM subjects: science, mathematics, engineering and technology. But there are plenty of other jobs that are in demand, pay well and are secure, according to Zippia.com's Best Jobs for 2018. "Automation and the elimination of certain jobs seem to flood the news cycle every month or so, but if there's anything this list proves, it's that there's a wide variety of jobs and industries among the top 100,"says McLeod Brown, marketing assistant at Zippia.com. Related: This is America's hottest job Using the most recent Occupational Employment Statistics data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Zippia.com created an index to analyze what jobs are the best to have this year. The online jobsite company focused on three variables for the study: total employment, annual mean wage and average entry-level pay. For the entry-level variable, Zippia.com focused on the average annual salary of the bottom 10 percent for each occupation. The company ranked 805 occupations 1 to 805 for each variable, and then took the average of the three numbers to create an index. The lower the average, the better the rank. "The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that the workforce is expected to grow by 11.5 million in the next decade," Brown says. "We'll see how the job market fluctuates in the next couple of years." Here's the top 10 jobs of 2018 and at the bottom of Brown's blog post is a list of the top 100 best jobs for this year.