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- Twoodge, on 10/12/2007, -4/+186ACCOUNTING
1. Financial controller ($79,900)
2. Financial analyst ($70,500)
ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT
1. HR coordinator ($40,200)
2. Paralegal ($39,500)
BANKING
1. Personal banker ($37,700)
2. Commerical loan officer ($75,700)
CUSTOMER SERVICE
1. Technical support specialist ($49,100)
2. Call center manager ($53,800)
ENGINEERING
1. Civil engineer ($57,200)
2. Project engineer ($65,200)
HEALTHCARE
1. Clinical research associate ($61,300)
2. Anesthesiologist ($225,000)
HOSPITALITY
1. Restaurant general manager ($49,800)
2. Hotel general manager ($56,600)
IT
1. Webmaster ($49,200)
2. Senior database administrator ($93,300)
RETAIL
1. Assistant store manager ($39,100)
2. Buyer ($47,900)
SALES
1. Sales assistant ($35,800)
2. Sales engineer ($79,900)
Average words per page: 5.6. That's just poor. - floridiot2, on 10/12/2007, -3/+140They took 'er jerbs!
- LaueOfficer, on 10/12/2007, -9/+79My girlfriend just got a lot more hot.... (In school to become an Anesthesiologist)
Oh wait, this is Digg, I don't have a GF :( - Boeing, on 10/12/2007, -4/+67Umm, why is CEO not on the list?
"The heads of America's 500 biggest companies received an aggregate 54% pay raise last year..."
http://www.forbes.com/2005/04/20/05ceoland.html - SillyRabbits, on 10/12/2007, -0/+57@gmarks
225K isn't for putting them to sleep, it's 225k for putting them to sleep and not killing them in the process.... I don't know about you, but I want my Anesthesiologist to be a happy camper. :) - KuntaKinte, on 10/12/2007, -6/+60# 21: people who marry britney spears
- kazimir34, on 10/12/2007, -0/+50Top growing salaries and yet they don't even mention the "growth".
- klown256, on 10/12/2007, -0/+48I hate having a list of 20 things which only displays 2 things on each page, thats 6 words per page!
- jaydj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+45I have no doubt that some make $65,000. I also have no doubt that the average is $49,200. I also have no doubt that some deserve much less.
I think the reason that you cringe at Webmaster is that so many of them are unskilled hacks. - spider418, on 10/12/2007, -0/+34@gmarks
5K for putting them to sleep, 220 for letting them wake up. - LordSkywalker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31Sales Assistant $35,800? My ass.
- SultanTravi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31I've pretty much had it with slideshows and things like this. JUST PUT IT ON ONE PAGE.
- Wonderkind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28Most of this "research" is *****.
It's just a cheap way to get people to look at 10 pages of ads with inaccurate information. - floridiot2, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Wow, I need to become an anesthesiologist!
- marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28I think this picture says it all
http://i.a.cnn.net/money/galleries/2007/biz2/0704/gallery.jobs_salaries.biz2/images/retail.jpg - blaze03, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23Somehow I have a hard time believing Tech Support makes $50,000
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23I'm really trying to work my way into a DBA role but it's so tough to get a foot in the door. Also, I'm surprised they didn't list nursing as one of the hottest salaries. Nurses have the potential to make alot of money because there is such a huge shortage of them. Especially nurses in specialized fields like anesthesiology. They often come out of school making more than their professors (who happen to have doctorate degrees).
Personally, if I didn't mind literally dealing with *****, piss, death, or any other form of human disgustingness for 8-12 hr. each day, I would definitely get into that profession. - LandStander, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Technical support specialist ($49,100) ? Bull ***** *****. I need to talk to my boss about this 35k *****
- coldskool, on 10/12/2007, -11/+32IT
1. Webmaster ($49,200)
um... stop calling it a "Webmaster" already... and try $65,000 - lcarsdeveloper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21I think there's a difference between "webmaster" and "web based programmer". If I'm building and maintaining a basic website for a business, then I'd consider myself a webmaster. But in my previous positions I've built extremely complex PHP/MySQL powered applications, usually deployed on an Intranet, with hundreds of thousands (more?) of lines of code. I think it worked out to be around $22,000 a year (US dollars). That's why I quit, I think a position like that is worth much more considering how exhausting and complex the work was. $22,000 is for "welcome to our webpage", not for the company's entire accounting and CRM system. There seems to be a bias against programmers who choose to work with web based languages. If you develop a software based system for a business using C, Java, VB, whatever, then it seems like you'll get paid more than someone who builds the exact same thing using PHP/MySQL. Of course I don't know how it is worldwide, this is how it is for me in Australia, and the reason why I switched to IT tech support/helpdesk. Easier work, and better pay. I save the web programming for my personal website projects.
- BrianJJohnson, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23wanted to hear more about the it jobs
- SillyRabbits, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18How are they going to show you that many ads if they only put it on one page?
- CrimsonBlur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18Yeah, amateurs have given the Webmaster title a bad name. Because the Internet is so new, and so few people have any idea how it works, there are a lot of unskilled people out there that take advantage of that fact. Products like Frontpage have made creating a Website about as easy as formatting a Word document, so these fools started making crappy sites for small companies, basically taking advantage of their ignorance of the field and technology, and in the process have given us actual Webmasters a bad name. Luckily this trend has started to die off, but during the 90's especially, the damage had already been done. It's too bad, because the term is a good way to easily convey what you do under one title. I still use it, because it's hard to come up with a better title that accurately describes the job, and most people at least have a basic understanding of what a Webmaster's skill set is. Otherwise you need multiple titles, which is the reason the term was coined in the first place.
- JohnSteel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16ENGINEERING
1. Civil engineer ($57,200)
2. Project engineer ($65,200)
Engineers used to be paid $100,000+. But thanks to outsourcing and hiring immigrants trained in other countries their pay plummeted.
HOSPITALITY
1. Restaurant general manager ($49,800)
2. Hotel general manager ($56,600)
These are jobs at the expensive places. The average restaurant or hotel doesn't pay that great. - marnaq, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16Soo... much... overhead.
- brufleth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15@omgwtfroflmaox2
Nursing should DEFINITELY be on there. One group of nurses just renegotiated their contracts and a nurse with 15 years experience gets a BASE pay of at LEAST $67 and some odd cents an hour working out to $140k a year. I work in engineering and lots of people I work with that have their PhDs were scratching their heads at the article and thinking they should have gone in to nursing. Granted that's an extreme case but as you said, if you can handle the crap (yes, sometimes literally) then nursing can be very rewarding.
There's also the warm fuzzy from helping people. That's of more importance to some than others.
I have relatives that are nurses and they always suggest nursing to young people who aren't really sure what they want to do. Doesn't take a ton of schooling and there's a huge demand. - Charlotte_Web, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13"I'm surprised they didn't list nursing as one of the hottest salaries."
Except that this isn't a list of the best salaries... this is a list of biggest increases in salary from 2005 to 2006. - eisdrache, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15um...maybe its just me, but since when does $35,000 constitute a hot salary? I mean its not bad, but I was expecting to see quite a few more 6 figure numbers here...
and that bagger (excuse me, courtesy clerk) in the last picture is probably more around the range of $20,000
//been there, done that - airquotes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11what, indians are taking over and the white man is the mexican of tomorrow?
- Cyrus89, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13I'm going these are American wages?
as these are pretty low for where I'm from (Australia) - Coffeedemon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Yes I don't have any idea how you'd survive on a mere 80K.
- catfish182, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10i have never seen that happen ether.
I am at 35,000 - nipuL, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Now I'm really depressed. I do sales, tech support and web mastering, and I get nowhere near any of those salaries
- HPSauce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Hmmm, civil engineers don't get paid much do they? You'd think, being responsible for building up the country was worth a lot more.
- knyghtryda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Anesthesiologists definitely should make as much as they do. When someone's mistake can kill you, you better be damn sure that person is educated, trained, qualified, and mentally and physically prepared for their job, and with all of that comes due compensation.
- Navicerts, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Has a lot to do with location as well. I live in NH and bought a decent starting house for about 100k (3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, 8 acre). If i wanted to buy the same thing in CA it would probably be 500k, CT maybe 300k.
- stupidverizon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10You'd think teaching would be worth even more than that, but teachers get paid crap salary.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7"Technical support specialist ($49,100) ? Bull ***** *****. I need to talk to my boss about this 35k *****"
-Well 35k is likely level 1 support desk. I know where I work level 1s get 35k, level 2s 43k, level 3s 51k to start. My suggestion to you: Get off the help desk as soon as you can. The other areas in IT tend to pay more. Where I work the pay (and I know this from experience waiting for a position to open up so I could get off desktop) for the lowest level positions in the following areas (requiring a BS and little to no experience, or less) are as follows:
Database: None, the ***** start hiring at mid level
Programmers: 50k
Network: 48k, but it's hourly so you likely get more with all the overtime and on call *****
Telecom: 43k, again this is hourly
Business Technical Analysts: 55k
Desktop: 38k :'(
Level 1 Help Desk Analyst: 35k
Any one of those jobs listed above would give you a great foot into the door. There are some true dead ends like Documentation Specialist or Inventory Specialist that I didn't bother to look up the salary to when I had the chance, but that should be an insight into how much people really get paid in the real world because it's certainly not what salary.com says. - alf86, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@neutralmind:
These are yearly. You're getting dugg down, not because people think its a bad joke, but because they think you're stupid. The problem with the people here is they think they know everything about everything and when someone doesn't know something, that someone is automatically an idiot. Its so easy to forget you didn't know something before you asked a "stupid" question. You can't know if you don't ask. Like they say, "the only stupid question is the one you don't ask." - LexisNexis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Christ, I need to start paying attention in Accounting!
- brufleth, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Welcome to reality. Chances are, you'll never be like those rich people you watch on TV.
- tanto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Your salary is never enough,because your life style is higher than your salary :)
"Use Your Body Language to Get a Job"
http://orangtuamurid.info/blog/?p=188 - blog4charity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6in the IT industry
who's that webmaster ($49,200) they're talking about? - stockjones, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6yeah. Perfect example of using an effect for the wrong reason. You dont need a slideshow to show every damn thing. All of that could go on one page.
- brufleth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The number that's off is your starting salary.
I have a BS in EE and started off significantly lower than 60k and still haven't hit that.
Also the only way I was able to even get an interview was by knowing the right people. Granted the market for engineers is a little stronger right now but not THAT much stronger. - bobcatred, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Clearly they ignored the whole tricky outsourced job issue there...
- confusednazgul, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The term "webmaster" just makes me cringe. "Look Ma, I've mastered the web!"
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6great pay
also less chance of malpractice suits, usually surgeons end up getting sued, not the anesthesiologist
plus all the painkillers you can use....i mean, prescribe...
but you do have to go to med school. plus residency. - HigherLogic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5>> coding is only one element of webmastery (and is *way* less important than content management)."
Without the coding, you wouldn't be doing any content management and probably wouldn't have much of a site. Webmaster is such a defunct word anyways, and whenever I hear it I'm taken back to 1995.
>> The point of being a webmaster is to pull all the different threads of web work together - content, coding, design, usability, etc"
Judging by the description you just gave, you sound more like a Web Developer (Designer + Programmer), not a Webmaster. If you're doing content, coding (and I assume you mean actual programming here, not doing some HTML and CSS), design, usability, etc., then you're definitely not a Webmaster.
I've always understood the role of a Webmaster as someone who manages the site. They choose the registrar, make sure the domain is current and protected, find the right hosting company, and make sure the site is up and running.
If the site is selling something, they also choose a merchant account, payment gateway, shopping cart, and so on.
They review pages on the site, check for spelling, perform updates and general maintenance.
Perhaps you assume the role of a web designer at times, but the short and curly would be to monitor, improve, and update existing web pages or websites. - cheesetoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5When I did tech support last year I made $10/hr.
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