The 20 Best Paying Jobs in the US

[Ausm]

Originally posted by: new2AMD
No fluffers?

They are sort of like truckers and get paid by the load 😉

Ausm

 

[Doggiedog]

Hmm no finance related jobs on that list.

I guess there must be a lot of paeons in finance.

 

[BornStar]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
OB/GYN's can pay 100k or more per year for malpractice insurance.

Good point, I'd have a better chance of getting a fair trial as a black guy accused of murdering a white women in texas than as a male gynacologist accused of misconduct of a patient. At least the murder trial has reasonable doubt going for it.

Typically OB/GYNs get sued for complications when delivering a baby. If the parents don't get a perfectly healthy baby, they plame the OB even if they had nothing to do with it. Sometimes our society can be so stupid.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
air traffic controllers w-t-f

I'm thinking the same thing - what difficult-to-obtain skill does this actually involve ?

Anyway... just the other day I found out one of the guys on my old hockey team was an anesthesiologist now... spent 3 additional years in med school after we graduated together... I kinda made the remark that he went through all those years of school just to put people to sleep with drugs (anesthesiologist)... I guess he's laughing his way to the bank now... that's a $#!Tload of cash!

 

[Parrotheader]

Originally posted by: Doggiedog
Hmm no finance related jobs on that list.

I guess there must be a lot of paeons in finance.

Some of the wealthiest young guys I know are investment bankers. I guess it depends upon your actual position, but I know a couple guys in their 20s making over $100k a year (here in Alabama where cost of living is very low.) They're smart guys, but not super geniuses or anything.

 

I don't believe number 14 at all.

Air traffic controller?? You have to be kidding.

I can almost guarantee you can't handle that job.

 

[GasX]

that list is such a load of crap.

Any surgeon making $130K is doing poorly.

What about investment banker?
What about Trader?
Hedge fund manager?
Venture capitalist?

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
air traffic controllers w-t-f

I'm thinking the same thing - what difficult-to-obtain skill does this actually involve ?

the ability to process a million pieces of information at a time knowing that if you fvck up, hundreds of people will die.

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Mwilding

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: NeuroSynapsis
air traffic controllers w-t-f

I'm thinking the same thing - what difficult-to-obtain skill does this actually involve ?

the ability to process a million pieces of information at a time knowing that if you fvck up, hundreds of people will die.

Any skill you learn from schooling ?

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Glitchny
hmm my dads is number 1 on there my sister is number 11, my bro is any of the damn physics ones and i dont see mine... damnit!

Yeah, I don't see "Slacker who posts on ATOT" on there either.

KK

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: Parrotheader

Originally posted by: Doggiedog
Hmm no finance related jobs on that list.

I guess there must be a lot of paeons in finance.

Some of the wealthiest young guys I know are investment bankers. I guess it depends upon your actual position, but I know a couple guys in their 20s making over $100k a year (here in Alabama where cost of living is very low.) They're smart guys, but not super geniuses or anything.

You can make that much in your early 20s if you're a pharmaceutical sales rep... a friend makes it seem easy too... after commission/bonuses, he made $150k last year.

 

[PlatinumGold]

Originally posted by: BornStar18

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth

Originally posted by: PlatinumGold
OB/GYN's can pay 100k or more per year for malpractice insurance.

Good point, I'd have a better chance of getting a fair trial as a black guy accused of murdering a white women in texas than as a male gynacologist accused of misconduct of a patient. At least the murder trial has reasonable doubt going for it.

Typically OB/GYNs get sued for complications when delivering a baby. If the parents don't get a perfectly healthy baby, they plame the OB even if they had nothing to do with it. Sometimes our society can be so stupid.

the worst part is that the patient has until 2 years AFTER discovery of the problem to sue the doctor. they could be 40 and sue their doctor for a medical condition.

 

[ManofSteal]

Gynecologists - $133,430/yr

and you get to see kitties all day

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: ManofSteal
Gynecologists - $133,430/yr

and you get to see kitties all day

Umm... think of the old ladies that are somewhat likely to come in also...

 

[Budmantom]

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: ManofSteal
Gynecologists - $133,430/yr

and you get to see kitties all day

Umm... think of the old ladies that are somewhat likely to come in also...

That's what I was thinking...

and how about the big girls...

 

[KK]

Originally posted by: Budmantom

Originally posted by: rh71

Originally posted by: ManofSteal
Gynecologists - $133,430/yr

and you get to see kitties all day

Umm... think of the old ladies that are somewhat likely to come in also...

That's what I was thinking...

and how about the big girls...

Would it be illegal to discriminate against fat and old or ugly people? Since someone would own the practice it would be private, right?

KK

 

[cricky]

Originally posted by: ManofSteal
Gynecologists - $133,430/yr

and you get to see kitties all day

Umm... think of the old ladies that are somewhat likely to come in also...



That's what I was thinking...

and how about the big girls...

I'm sure that his door would proudly say "No Fat Chicks." 🙂

--Chris

 

[Aharami]

where are drug lords? :Q

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Parrotheader
My best friend is in his residency for anesthesiology. It's funny to hear him gripe about his debt because he knows full well he'll be rolling in it in a few years and will be able to pay that debt off in no time flat. It doesn't hurt that his new wife makes ~$65,000/yr to keep them comfortably afloat right now. I told him I'll be coming to mooch off him in his mansion in a few years.

$65K a year???? He calls "Afloat"?? Wow. Hell, I'd love to break the $30K mark sometime.

Top ones there are medicine...only one there that doesn't require college is CEO. I don't want to keep cleaning brown off my nose, so I'll never make it to that level.

Originally posted by: ausm

Originally posted by: new2AMD
No fluffers?

They are sort of like truckers and get paid by the load 😉

Ausm

Wrong. So very very wrong.

Originally posted by: SammySon

I don't believe number 14 at all.

Air traffic controller?? You have to be kidding.

I can almost guarantee you can't handle that job.

Exactly - you try directing lots of huge, fast-moving planes, with 3 possibile directions of motion, all without any close calls or impacts, for a full day.

 

[new2AMD]

Has anyone seen Pushing Tin?

Its about air traffic controllers. Highly stressful job.

good movie with anjelina jolie's breasts in it.

 

[SagaLore]

14. Computer and information systems managers

Woohoo!

 

[DT4K]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
that list is such a load of crap.

Any surgeon making $130K is doing poorly.

I'm guessing that is after malpractice insurance and everything else.

Cause the figures I have seen before showed doctors making from 150k for a family practice doctor to 350k or more for a heart or neuro surgeon.

 

[Ferocious]

I had to chuckle at the Chief Executives one.

I know several....and the lowest paid makes over $200k salary plus bonuses.

 

[Doggiedog]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
that list is such a load of crap.

Any surgeon making $130K is doing poorly.

What about investment banker?
What about Trader?
Hedge fund manager?
Venture capitalist?

Yup.

My two ex-bosses are hedge fund portfolio managers and made $9M and $10M last year. I would think that's enough to offset the salaries of alot of lower paid guys to skew the list but I guess not. Must have been me that skewed it downward.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Mwilding
that list is such a load of crap.

Any surgeon making $130K is doing poorly.

I think these are all 'base' pay. Also most doctor's 'salaries' are not where the majority of their income comes from.