1. Physician assistant
Annual salary – $98,180
Let’s say that a physician assistant is a team worker with a high level of education in the medical field, but still not the same as that of doctors. A physical assistant assists physicians and other doctors during the examinations, drugs prescriptions, interpretations of tests and procedures of performing diagnoses, while the rest of the time they work with nurses, monitor them during the process of giving medicines to patients or providing other medical care. They can assist in surgeries and coordinate the medical care. The salary and the education a person must have to be at this position put this job in the first place on the list of 16 types of healthcare jobs in the medical field that pay well.
Rob Marmion/Shutterstock.com
