Top Paying Careers

I came across and interesting article on Yahoo about the some entry level jobs that pay salaries of more than $50,000 a year. I think the article is more or less an advertisement for various online education programs you can take to increase your employment opportunities or to increase your salary from your existing employment. However, it was interesting and no doubt accurate, although I am sure it isn't all inclusive as I know there are other entry level careers that pay as much or more.

According to the report, the entry level careers that pay at least $50,000 are:

Marketing and Sales Managers - $80,000
High School Teachers - $59,269
Education Administrators - $80,000
Registered Nurses - $63,803
Network Systems and Data Communications Analysts - $53,000
Computer Software Engineers $58,900
Physical Therapist - $61,478
Restaurant Managers - $53,255
Web Designer - $53,931
Financial Analyst - $84000

Wow! Those are pretty substantial salaries, especially when you consider they are for 'entry level' careers. However, I think that one thing you have to consider is none of the above mentioned careers is possible without formal education, usually in the form of a degree, except restaurant manager and marketing and sales managers, and to get to those positions you probably will require a good deal of experience in the fields, especially if you don't have the education.

Otherwise, this is probably a pretty accurate idea of the kind of salaries available for anyone with some education in the above fields. Before you get too excited though, remember that the two top paying jobs listed, Marketing and Sales Management and Finaincial Analysts are both very much performance related when it comes to salaries. Sales commissions usually figure high in the compensation packages for those two careers, which means, if you don't produce you don't get paid, and in many cases, if you don't produce you get fired....something to think about....
You can read the full article: Entry Level Jobs That Pay More Than 50K
The other thing to remember is that salaries vary depending on where you live and the size of the company or organization that hires you, it also depends on the demand for your particular education and skills. Although a snowplow driver might make pretty good money in Maine, the job doesn't pay well in Florida....LOL

One way that a lot of people are making lots of money these days involves working in jobs that present a bit of hardship, (sometimes a lot of hardship) but pay big returns. For example, working on oil rigs in the middle of the ocean, or in Northern and Western Canada, where lots of jobs exist for skilled and sometimes non-skilled workers willing to spend weeks at a time in the North, living and working outdoors in freezing cold conditions. It's a rough life, but one that usually pays excellent wages if you can stand the islolation, being away from home, or in the case of ocean going oil rigs, if you can stand being at sea for weeks at a time. Many of these positions pay very high wages, in excess of $50,000 a year. It's not for me, but there are lots of men and women who love it.