Industry has a high demand for physicists.
APS NEWS has published a recent article on why physicists are so successful in the private sector. This point of view is illustrated by Joel Shullman of Proctor and Gamble in his remarks for the Reenvisioning the Ph.D. project . Industrial physics has created a number of innovations that have changed the modern world. Examples include impacts in telecommunications, medical imaging, lasers, new materials and so on. A full text of these and other Physics success stories are available from the American Institute of Physics.