Top Paying Jobs Overall
The jobs that pay the most require at least a four-year college degree. According to the Employment Policy Foundation (EPF), the nation's 12 top-paying jobs -- and the mean annual income reported in 2004 (the most recent year data was available) for each -- were:
Physicians and surgeons: $147,000
Aircraft pilots: $133,500
Chief executives: $116,000
Electrical and electronic engineers: $112,000
Lawyers and judges: $99,800
Dentists: $90,000
Pharmacists: $85,500
Management analysts: $84,700
Computer and information system managers: $83,000
Financial analysts, managers and advisers: $84,000
Marketing and sales managers: $80,000
Education administrators: $80,000
Kate Lorenz is the article and advice editor for CareerBuilder.com. She researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues. Other writers contributed to this article.
Suffice it to say that Kate doesn't know what the hell she's talking about. Who is she polling, only gray haired men with 4 stripes? If I had the energy, I could blow her "research" out of the water in 10 minutes. She needs to either narrow the category title or broaden the population sample.
The jobs that pay the most require at least a four-year college degree. According to the Employment Policy Foundation (EPF), the nation's 12 top-paying jobs -- and the mean annual income reported in 2004 (the most recent year data was available) for each -- were:
Physicians and surgeons: $147,000
Aircraft pilots: $133,500
Chief executives: $116,000
Electrical and electronic engineers: $112,000
Lawyers and judges: $99,800
Dentists: $90,000
Pharmacists: $85,500
Management analysts: $84,700
Computer and information system managers: $83,000
Financial analysts, managers and advisers: $84,000
Marketing and sales managers: $80,000
Education administrators: $80,000
Kate Lorenz is the article and advice editor for CareerBuilder.com. She researches and writes about job search strategy, career management, hiring trends and workplace issues. Other writers contributed to this article.
Suffice it to say that Kate doesn't know what the hell she's talking about. Who is she polling, only gray haired men with 4 stripes? If I had the energy, I could blow her "research" out of the water in 10 minutes. She needs to either narrow the category title or broaden the population sample.
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