How to Find the Highest Paying Jobs

A website connected with national education services as well as Employment and Training (E & T) and our government sponsored Career One Stops network throughout the US is AceNet or http://www.acenet.org/. This site also lists the highest paying jobs in the country, figured by hourly wage equivalent, but at salaries of over $146,000 per year. All of the following jobs listed are at the top of this collection of well paying positions.

The following jobs would all pay over $70 per hour, if figured on an 40-hour-work-week hourly basis:

1. Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers. Note: Numbers of openings for these positions decreased significantly over the 18 months ending July 2009.
2. Physicians - Anesthesiologists. Note: Physician job listings have increased overall from 2008 - 2012. Also note that while earning potential is high for physicians, their Malpractice Insurance premiums have increased significantly in recent years and pose a major expense.
3. Chief Executives - e.g., CEO, CFO
4. Physicians - Family & General Practitioners
5. Physicians - General Internists
6. Physicians - Obstetricians and Gynecologists
7. Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
8. Orthodontists
9. All "other" Physicians and Surgeons
10. Prosthodontists - Dentistry
11. Psychiatrists - Note: job listings for this position increased 46% from January 2008 through July 2009 and have steadily increased since January 2005 through to early 2012.
12. Physicians - Surgeons

Notice that most of this list is involved in Healthcare. for the entire list of the Top 50 Highest Paying Jobs, click the embedded link. A similar Top 20 list posted by MSNBC includes only jobs around $120,000/year and lower.

JOB LOCATIONS

Top-Paying Jobs listed across the Internet for America:

• Anesthesiologists - NYC, Seattle, San Antonio and Houston TX, Charlotte NC, Portland OR, Miami FL.
• Chief Executives- Washington DC, NYC, Chicago, Los Angeles, Houston, San Francisco, Arlington VA, Atlanta, Dallas, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Diego CA, Fort Worth.
• Orthodontists- Savannah GA, Atlantic County and Montclair NJ, St. Louis, Los Angeles, Santa Clara CA, Chicago, Fort Smith, AR, Atlanta.
• Psychiatrists: NYC, Baltimore, Boston, Washington DC, Denver CO, Jacksonville FL, Atlanta, Rochester NY, Jacksonville NC.
• Airline Pilots - Washington DC, Atlanta, Olathe KS, Silver Spring MD, Dallas TX, Englewood CO. Salaries and benefits of some commercial have decreased somewhat since 2008.

In America, one way to find high paying jobs is to use the Internet Job Search engines Indeed.com, Simplyhired.com and similar sites, and search by salary range.

In the UK, it is useful to read the recent "2009 Salary Survey" and search for the high paying job titles on SimplyHired UK. You can do this by accessing the embedded link.

Examples below are from some American-focused Internet Job Search & Trending Engines. Not all can be searched according to salary and nationwide job listings. In addition, many jobs are not advertised or listed on Internet sites at all, but this is a starting point.

In September 2009, over 2.6 million jobs were advertised on Indeed.com and 630,000 of these jobs advertised a starting salary of $80,000 or more per year.

About 375,000 of these mentioned positions advertised a starting salary of $100K and beyond. Overall, Healthcare Jobs that include the specific listings here have been projected by the US Department of Labor to be expected to increase in numbers through the year 2016 or 2020, at least.

Most of these high paying jobs are in the Healthcare Industry and require significant education and training beyond high school and some, beyond any 4-year colleges.

These job titles included the following in the greatest numbers:

1. Physician - Family Practice
2. Physician - Internal Medicine
3. Outside Sales Representative
4. Physician - Family Practice without OB
5. Physician - Hospitalist
6. Staff Pharmacist
7. Pharmacist
8. Occupational Therapist
9. Physical Therapist
10. Independent Sales Representative
11. Physician - Internal Medicine
12. Project Manager - IT
13. Physician - Pediatrics
14. Physician - Neurology

These high paying jobs were advertised most often in the following metro areas:

1. New York City NY
2. Washington DC - less than half as many as those available in NYC
3. Chicago IL
4. San Francisco
5. Atlanta GA
6. Boston MA
7. Houston TX
8. Los Angeles
9. Dallas TX
10. Arlington VA
11. San Jose CA

For comparison, this site is another on which job seekers can search by salary. For the same date as for Indeed.com above, Yahoo Hotjobs/Monster listed over 7,700 positions that advertising salaries of $80,000 per year or higher salaries.

Over 2,500 of these high paying jobs require 5 to 10 years or more of related work experience, while another 800 required 2 to 5 years of experience.However, many of the lesser experienced positions were actually "Business Opportunities" and work-at-home schemes.

Top 15 Locations for High Paying Jobs on HotJobs/Monster:

1. NYC
2. Los Angeles
3. Atlanta
4. Houston
5. Chicago
6. San Francisco
7. Dallas
8. Boston
9. Washington DC
10. San Jose CA
11. Philadelphia
12. San Diego
13. Tampa FL
14. Sacramento
15. Seattle

Careerbuilder.com is another search engine on which a job seeker may designate salary range preferred. However, a job seeker can search this range only in a specific city or state and not nationwide.

On the same date used for the search engines above, Careerbuilder.com listed over 100,000 open jobs at the salary level of $80K or higher per year in New York City:

Top 10 High Paying Job Clusters in NYC:

1. Management & Executive - see video above.
2. Finance
3. Sales
4. Information Technology
5. Accounting
6. Healthcare
7. Marketing
8. Engineering
9. Business Development
10. Professional Services

Top Companies Listing High Paying Jobs in NYC:

1. Morgan Stanley
2. NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital
3. Michael Page International
4. Citi
5. Robert Half Finance & Accounting
6. Price Waterhouse Coopers
7. Green Key Resources
8. New York Univeristy
9. C. Winchell Agency
10. Cybercoders Engineering