Highest Paying Professions
Do you want to know the best career path that will give you the biggest paycheck every month? Are you interested in knowing the degree that results to a high-paying position? You are in luck because we have here the highest paying professions in America today. Check out this list to know which field to enter.
The highest paying professions today are:
- Surgeon
- Anesthesiologist
- Orthodontist
- Obstetrician and Gynecologist
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
- Internist, General
- Prosthodontist
- Physician and Surgeon (outside of main specialty)
- Family and General Practitioner
- Chief Executive
The medical field dominates this list, as you will probably notice. This means that you would need to go to medical school and spend close to a decade studying in order to have one of these highest paying careers. Now you have to realize that the time and money you spend for your degree will be worth every paycheck that you soon will receive when you finally find a job.
So how much exactly does a surgeon or an internist earn every year? On average, a surgeon makes $206,770 every year. A surgeon’s pay also increases by 8% yearly. An anesthesiologist, on the other hand, makes about $10,000 less than a surgeon. Earning an average of $197,570 a year, they also experience a pay increase of only 2.5%. For orthodontists, the average yearly income is $194,930. The percentage of yearly increase is bigger than anesthesiologists, though. Their yearly increase is around 5.2% every year.
Internists earn $176,740 on average, every year. They also enjoy a pay increase of around 5.7%. The state where you can find the best salaries for internists is Wisconsin. The same is true for surgeons.
For the non-medical best paying profession, we have the chief executive officers of big corporations. This profession also entails a long time of study. People with this position earn an average of $160,440 annually.
“Source: Forbes“