5 Top Paying Jobs in America

In this article we discuss the 5 top paying jobs in America. If you want to read our detailed analysis of these high rewarding occupations, go directly to the 25 Top Paying Jobs in America.

5. Data Scientist ($35/hour)

Those long and tedious hours of looking at, analyzing and making sense of data might not seem so long when you make $114,000 annually. Data scientists are one of the highest paid skilled professionals in America, which brings them to be a part of the top 5 in our list of the 25 top paying jobs in America. They use their knowledge of the social sciences, statistical analysis and computer skills to analyze and model data for businesses. Glassdoor reported approximately 6000 job openings for data scientists.

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4. Product Manager ($42/hour)

Product managers function at the core of any company. They are the ones responsible for the developing, promoting and marketing of products for businesses, which gives them an earning potential of about $121,000. This job made it to our list of the 25 top paying jobs in America because of how well it pays annually, and a relatively high number of job openings, 14,515 to be exact.

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3. Enterprise Architect ($70/hour)

An enterprise architect, again, a tech-role, governs the upkeep and upgradation of software and hardware resources for a company. On average, an enterprise architect can make up to $131,000 annually and the number of job openings posted for this role as of 2021 are 10,000. This indicates how high the demand is for personnel with these skills.

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2. Dentist ($82/hour)

We are not aliens to the fact that dentists are one of the highest paid medical professionals in the world, and they have been for a long time. A dentist’s annual median base salary in America is $134,000. Even though, dentists have the highest hourly pay rate in our list, one job makes more money annually.

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1. Technical Program Manager ($66/hour)

We have reached the end of our list of the 25 top paying jobs in America, placing this job at the top. Technical Program Managers have the highest annual median base salary of $142,000, placing them at number 1 in our list of the 25 top paying jobs in America. We mentioned earlier that people would expect that the health-care industry would be dominating all other industries when it comes to generating high-paying jobs, but in fact, the tech industry comes at the top.

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