No. 1: Medical professionals
Medical professionals are amongst the few people in the world who can say that they actually save lives for a living. The years of hard work and studying that it takes to become a doctor, make medicine arguably the most respected profession in the world. When it comes to salaries, doctors tend to be above average as well. Though salaries can differ dramatically from one specialty to another and from one country to the next, the international average, as reported by the International Labor Organization, is around $130,000. In the US, they can make double that.
