These positions may pay well, but you'll need to be well trained for many of them.
If you're looking to make serious money with plenty of opportunity to find work, Glassdoor has something for you: its annual 25 best jobs.
These are the cream of the crop, jobs that pay from just under $91,000
to a bit more than $212,000 a year and that are in high demand from
employers, with anywhere from 1,264 job listings to more than 90,000.
Glassdoor chose job titles that had at least 75 salary reports from U.S.
employees over the last year and that were in the top half of job
openings per title over the last three months. Top of the food chain, by
far, were physicians, with an annual base salary of $212,270 (with
bonuses and other compensation, the salary numbers may not show full
compensation) and 7984 job openings.
Next were pharmacy managers ($131,009, 1787 jobs), software architects
($130,891, 3229 jobs), software development managers ($123,747, 2249
jobs), and finance managers ($123,534, 9224 jobs).
The jobs roughly fall into three categories. The biggest is high tech,
which represented a baker's dozen of the jobs. Four jobs were in the
healthcare industry, which shouldn't be a surprise, given the size of
the industry and recent political emphasis on healthcare delivery. Seven
of the remaining ones were in areas of business management, leaving
lawyers in a category of their own.
Many of these positions require significant amounts of training and
experience, although that can sometimes come in various forms. Software
engineers had the largest number of opportunities, with 99,055
positions. Many people go into the field with a traditional degree in
computer science, electrical engineering, or other discipline. But some
with two-year degrees will find a home, as will many who go through a
programming boot camp to quickly and intensely learn the necessary
skills.
Also, keep in mind that between the salaries being average numbers and
self-reported by people, they may or may not represent an accurate view
of how much someone can reasonably expect to make doing one of these
jobs.