Highest Paying Jobs in America

Job site Glassdoor collected data from employees with positions that have at least 100 reported salaries to come up with the list of highest paying jobs in America. There’s no surprise as physicians occupied the top spot with a median base salaary of $187,876. Medical and STEM fields dominate the list. Here’s the top 25 jobs along with median base salary.

Highest Paying Jobs

1	Physician	$187,876
2	Pharmacy manager	$149,064
3	Patent attorney	$139,272
4	Medical science liaison	$132,842
5	Pharmacist	$125,847
6	Enterprise architect	$112,560
7	Physician assistant	$112,529
8	Applications development manager	$112,045
9	R&D manager	$111,905
10	Corporate controller	$110,855
11	Software engineering manager	$109,350
12	IT architect	$105,303
13	Software architect	$104,754
14	Nurse practitioner	$104,144
15	Solutions architect	$102,678
16	Data architect	$102,091
17	Actuary	$99,507
18	IT program manager	$98,883
19	UX manager	$98,353
20	Systems architect	$97,873
21	Plant manager	$97,189
22	Scrum master	$95,167
23	Financial planning and analysis manager	$94,862
24	Nuclear engineer	$94,852
25	Attorney	$94,695

Jobs That Are Safe from Robot Takeover

Automation is gradually taking over human jobs across many industries. Technology, coupled with artificial intelligence, advances at a breakneck pace year after year. It’s undeniable that one day robot will do many of our jobs such as bus driver, accountant, cashier, etc. Well, if you want to know which jobs that are safe from Robot, here are four areas and skills that are AI proof:

1. Data science jobs
2. Cybersecurity jobs
3. Design jobs
4. Strategy jobs

Jobs with Strangest Degrees

Enough with the list of highest paying jobs, here are 9 strangest degrees you can get at college:

1. Bakery science
2. Winemaking
3. Golf course management
4. Puppetry
5. Auctioneering
6. Bagpiping
7. Pop culture studies
8. Jewelry design
9. Comic book art