OT: These are the 25 best-paying jobs in America in 2019, according to US News &
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19 of the top 25 jobs in this year's rankings come with "high" or "above average" stress levels. Approximately half of the top 25 jobs in this year's ranking offered "low" or "below average" work-life balance. For the second year in a row, medical jobs dominate this list.
Thankfully, not every healthcare professional needs to trade high pay for low quality of life. A few jobs, such as orthodontist, dentist and optometrist offer good work-life balance and at least average stress levels, according to the publication's research.
This year's top paying jobs all have median salaries of at least $100,000, more than twice the U.S. median personal income, US News & World Report careers reporter Rebecca Koenig toldCNBC Make It. The publication calculated the U.S. median income at $46,124 a year using the Bureau of Labor Statistics' third quarter data for 2018).
For this year's ranking, the publication analyzed U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data to determine which 100 jobs are hiring the most. It then looked across industries and measured the overall quality of each role based on seven factors: 10-year growth volume, 10-year growth percentage, median salary, employment rate, future job prospects, stress level and work-life balance.
Here are the 25 best-paying jobs in 2019, according to U.S. News & World Report:
1. Anesthesiologist
Mean salary: $265,990
Stress level: High
Work-life balance: Low
2. Surgeon
Mean salary: $251,890
Stress level: High
Work-life balance: Low
3.Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon
Mean salary: $242,740
Stress level: Above average
Work-life balance: Below average
4. Obstetrician and Gynecologist
Mean salary: $235,240
Stress level: Above average
Work-life balance: Below average
5. Orthodontist
Mean salary: $229,380
Stress level: Below average
Work-life balance: Above average
6. Psychiatrist
Mean salary: $216,090
Stress level: Above average
Work-life balance: Average
7. Physician
Mean salary: $198,370
Stress level: High
Work-life balance: Average
8. Prosthodontist
Mean salary: $196,960
Stress level: Above average
Work-life balance: Below average
9. Pediatrician
Mean salary: $187,540
Stress level: Above average
Work-life balance: Average
10. Dentist
Mean salary: $174,110
Stress level: Average
Work-life balance: Above average
11. Nurse Anesthetist
Mean salary: $169,450
Stress level: Above average
Work-life balance: Below average
12. Petroleum Engineer
Mean salary: $154,780
Stress level: Above average
Work-life balance: Below average
13. IT Manager
Mean salary: $149,730
Stress level: High
Work-life balance: Below average
14. Podiatrist
Mean salary: $148,470
Stress level: Average
Work-life balance: Average
15. Marketing Manager
Mean salary: $145,620
Stress level: Above average
Work-life balance: Below average
16. Financial Manager
Mean salary: $143,530
Stress level: High
Work-life balance: Average
17. Lawyer
Mean salary: $141,890
Stress level: High
Work-life balance: Below average
18. Sales Manager
Mean salary: $137,650
Stress level: High
Work-life balance: Below average
19. Financial Advisor
Mean salary: $124,140
Stress level: Above average
Work-life balance: Average
20. Business Operations Manager
Mean salary: $123,460
Stress level: Above average
Work-life balance: Below average
21. Pharmacist
Mean salary: $121,710
Stress level: Above average
Work-life balance: Below average
22. Optometrist
Mean salary: $119,100
Stress level: Average
Work-life balance: Above average
23. Actuary
Mean salary: $114,850
Stress level: Average
Work-life balance: Average
24. Political Scientist
Mean salary: $112,030
Stress level: Average
Work-life balance: Average
25. Medical and Health Services Manager
Mean salary: $111,680
Stress level: Above average
Work-life balance: Above average
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My point is, what people get depends upon what they actually do, and on who they are doing it for. More determined by this than by what kind of college degrees they have.
Bar tenders, used car salesman, real estate agents, they all can do quite well.
Also, some of these occupations are represented by unions, and so they get overtime. The quintessential was Air Traffic Controller, or it was so.
So when you see something like Anesthesiologist, keep that in mind. I know of Police Officers who get that much.
But not everyone wants to be in that sort of a working situation.
What I always suggest as the alternative kind of thinking in such realms:
https://www.amazon.com/What-Color-Your-P…
Because it is based on actually going out and talking to people, and on finding out what sorts of skills it is that you most enjoy using, and to what ends. You find that very few people who are doing interesting and lucrative things have been following any kind of a prepared path.
Steve Jobs
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Thanks Papi, for coming out here into the parking lot with us,
SJG
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Sure there are examples, all sorts of example of all sorts of things. But my point is that once you understand such, you see that such lists are not really very good for much.
For people who want flexibility and money, I still say that starting your own business is best.
SJG
SJG
Seems the jobs listed met certain criteria besides just solely being the best-paying
What's the stress level and work-life balance for a stripper?
Although you have to work weekends and holidays!
And IT Manager is all over the place.........there are so many variables it's hard to list them all.
24. Political Scientist
Mean salary: $112,030
Stress level: Average
Work-life balance: Average
I am surprised that anyone would admit that as their profession.
SJG
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I recall bls.gov having listings of career fields. Even there, I could see some data flaws in the field that I worked in. Pass the salt, please......
SJG
The list is bs though, its the high end of the pay scale and doesn't account for location, cost of living etc.
SJG
Been there, done that.
SJG
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Irony is that poor white men in rural America voted for Trump in large numbers. As if Trump and the Rs have anything to offer them. Instead we had a huge deficit-funded corporate tax cut that went to buy-backs and corporate CEOs -- the top 0.1%. Poor white slob gets nothing except the threat of entitlement cuts to reduce the deficit. R's succeed by playing on white resentment and the bogus threat of brown people coming across the border. And these poor white rural men fall for it.
I think surgeons and anesthesiologist etc deserve large salaries. Pushing them into the middle class is mistake, because we want to encourage the best-and-brightest to become MDs. There are about 8 different proposals that come under the heading of Medicare for all, and the differ radically in implementation. Again, we don't want to push doctors into the middle class.
Would be nice to have a tax structure that encourages more talented people to become research scientists & professors instead of going into finance or law.
Not going to argue about that, but you keep forgetting that this Universal Basic Income is just another form of welfare, I never rant about a nanny state, we have many things that we agree on, but this is just another stupid give away, to get votes from idiots. Eventually everything must be paid for, and my feeling is that this is going to be just a red herring, used as a diversion, to get people to look away from serious problems.
This is an example of politicians trying to have it both ways, either we don't have the funds available to effect the infrastructure repairs we desperately need, and we need to raise taxes, or there is more than enough money available for everything, in that case how about returning the excess to those people that paid the taxes. Let's be fair about this, why the fuck should I work hard and give my hard earned money to a bunch of lazy asses to sit around and do nothing worthwhile. I certainly lost quite a bit of money during that financial crises you're referring to, and nobody bailed me out.
Just trying to put things in perspective. Government outlay on food stamps is about $70B per year, so that 44M people can get $125/month to eat. That's about what most of us spend in 1/2 hour at a strip club. TARP outlay was $700B. The recent tax cut adds $1,000B to the deficit over ten years and benefits just a tiny fraction of the population.
As it is not needs tested, this means that for the first time the poor are not being pilloried, being targeted for scorn, pity, and contempt, in the political arena.
Now of course while UBI is not needs tested, taxes are means tested. At some level of income, the money will be taxed back. This may or may not be counted by economists are part of the federal budget, or being just a transfer payment, it might be tallied separately.
Nothing would reduce the pressure to create senseless jobs, or expand consumption, and alleviate social problems better than UBI.
Now, for it to have the intended effect, that people could live on that and that alone, there would have to be some other changes. Price controlled or fully state run offerings for the basic essentials, like housing, transportation, food, clothing, medical care, education.
Otherwise the UBI system would just be fattening rentiers. Lots of stuff today does this.
Then other programs would have to be re-evaluted, like min wage, unemployment, food stamps, welfare, etc. Some might be completely replaced by UBI. Others might be integrated into UBI. Still others might still need to run independently.
Keynesianism kept the unemployment rate low for decades. Then JFK saw that it was starting to creep up, to maybe 1%. This was what we call today "frictional unemployment".
But JFK became the proto-Reagan, droping the top tax rate from 90% to 70%
Seems like he accomplished nothing. But LBJ accomplished a great deal with Medicare and his War on Poverty. But his stuff was still too timid and too compromised from the start. And the Clinton Earned Income Tax Credit does also help.
As you move from early industrialization, to advanced industrialization, to an information economy, there is no other choice than a full welfare state. And the only way to do this and protect the poor from scapegoating and to protect the political gains, is to eliminate needs testing. Such is replaced by means testing for progressive taxation.
People who say things like, "It's MY MONEY" or "Why should I support lazy people?", or "We should be promoting entrepreneurism and financial literacy, and gutting regulations, they are not looking the Big Picture, just at their own reactionary little picture.
So it is either UBI, or expect strife, and eventually violent revolution. And if it is this latter, you can know that I will be the one passing out the assault rifles and the bayonets.
Remember, the whole point of industrialization is to create vastly more leisure time by continually whittling down the need for labor. We long ago reached the point where Capitalism is not at all viable.
SJG
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And it can be made to cover everything.
SJG