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- val8ntin, on 10/12/2007, -2/+50The Aircraft Pilot salary figure is a complete misrepresentation of the job. To even be near the 100K mark, you need to have flown for at the very least 15 years. The bulk of those 15 years are spent at 20K/year regional airlines.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+46Highest paying job? Mine. Professional Dig Commentator.
- zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -2/+27I like how it has most programming related positions listed under just high school grad. I had a 4yr degree with experience and still had a tough time even getting an interview (which probably has more to do with the area I was seeking employment in of course).
Still right now I couldn't imagine applying for a DECENT software engineering/programming job with only a high school diploma unless you had a myriad of experience to prove your already established. - Desolite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22this article is retardedly inaccurate. look at the 2 year degrees... engineering? its tough to finish in 4 years, give me a break.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23and doesn't do *****
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15CEO $116,000 ROTFLMAO!!! This guy is smoking crack
- mobilehavoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12What a load of crap...bury this *****.
- Philodox, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13lol yeah the people that get developer jobs out of HS without a college education are the extreme exception, not the rule. Unless that website has some pretty wacky categories for programming.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12"While looking through the various job sites on the Internet, I found the following list of the highest paying jobs in the U.S."
Mmmkay. - HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I could care less if people cared about my job if I was pulling in 100K+ a year.
- drakethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15The only job in IT that pays 250,000 is if your Bill Gates personal dick sucker. Nothing else I'm sorry your dad lies to you and I hope he didn't sexually molest you as a kid but lets not leave that possibility out.
- EnderWalcott, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median pay for dentists is $129,920. So a dentist could potentially earn $90,000 as the article says, or the $250,000 you said. But I sincerely doubt that dentists start at $250,000 a year.
- RCourtney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Am I the only person to find it odd that "Computer and information systems managers" make LESS having a Two-Year degree as opposed to being High School Graduates?
Top Paying Jobs for High School Graduates
# Computer/information systems managers — $56,400
Top Paying Jobs for a Two-Year College Degree
# Computer and information systems managers — $50,400 - SAOSiN, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The president makes 400k a year.
- fourzerofour, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9It all depends on location, marked inaccurate. Good try though..
- ICSU, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@Ssullivan
Ballmer has more money than your city. - LordofShadows, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9at least he listed his sources.
- blackgold9, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Um, programmers at 55? I'm just out of college at 66. I'm hoping its the low end too.
Fellow software engineers, what are you guys making? - viet10, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7That doesn't apply to being a physician.
- Markie1006, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7umm CEO *salaries* are normally pretty average. It's the extras that make it worthwhile.
For instance Scott McNally's (Sun) salary for 2003 was $100k
Larry Ellison (Oracle) doesn't even take a salary;-
http://paycheck.demo.marklogic.com/detailed-exec-comp.xqy?company=Oracle%20Corporation&exec=Lawrence%20J.%20Ellison - OUChevelleSS, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Definately, most surgeons I know are $250k-$350k mark, before insurance of course.
- jprez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7dig? or digg?
- UberNick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I call shenanigans. Be prepared to make about half that starting out. And that's if you get into a big four in a major metropolitan area.
- kenwestin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This was published May of 2005, probably based on data from 2003 and 2004. Inaccurate.
- oriondr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Wow, I'd like to know where you pulled that from.
On second thought, spare me.
The most thankless jobs are the ones you get paid the least for. Think digging ditches, working at K-mart, burger king, etc. - aristotle0dude, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8RE: HIgh school education level and jobs.
You guys should realize that many companies are looking for well rounded individuals with skill sets outside of what a CS course will teach you. A person with experience outside of school and a technical college diploma is more likely to get a job in some cases than a kid straight out of college.
A university can give you important skills and tools to do your job better but they do not imbue you with talent or creativity. Those are traits of the person which you cannot glean from a text book or by listening to a professor drone on in a lecture hall. - mistermanoli, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I have an uncle that is an airline pilot, he became a pilot in the navy, and he started to fly for commercial airliners only 6 years after he left the air force (he flew private jets in between for a mid sized British Corporation making around 75k) also, his salary is roughly 265,000/year because he flies internationally.. theres a lot of figures to take into consideration when estimating the average salary of a pilot, because there is so many different kinds of pilots, at so many different levels of pay.. i think 135k for a airline pilot is a decent estimate..
- cosmicpoet, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@ Desolite
I completely agree. Dugg down for woeful inaccuracies. - ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Use:
ol/ul { list-style-position: inside; } - sakuraz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Steve Jobs' salary is a dollar a year.
- Cykaos, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Mu uncle is head of orthopedic surgery at a large hospital and makes over $1 million a year.
- MorningCoder, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The list is all *****. A real estate inspector I know make over $200K. My friend's physician farther make over $700K. Okay, may I don't know anything about the real estate inspection or medical industry. For software engineers, I have either directly or indirectly help hired more than 20 developers. The average offer we made were somewhere at the $90K range. Those of you who is sufficient in C++ and willing to work for $60K like the list suggested, send me your resume, you're hired.
- molecool, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7True that - all the cramming I did in college... had I passed the bar exam instead I'd be making over $100k in the first year instead of competing for $65k jobs with some shmo from India.
- Celeron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Where the hell is the statistic for computer engineers with a college degree? It should be well worth over $100,000 as computer engineers with only a high school degree make half of that.
- Aero1, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11*****. starting salary for lawyers is 100k, and surgeons make much more that that.
- mhockey14221, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4a. These are averages, remember, for every doctor out of Johns Hopkins theres 50 from Dr. Nick's Hollywood Upstairs Medical College.
b. These a --paying--, not --earnings--. Most doctors, lawyers, etc. are self-employed. They dont get paid, they earn it (unless Im not correct on this, I might be pulling this out of my ass)
c. If you pursue a job you truly like, youll usually make more than that, so who cares about lists like this? - dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"New attorneys at large law firms start at 125K (see nalpdirectory.com). "
Many attorneys work in the government and very few government jobs reach 100k. The only starting attorneys that make over 100 are those that go to the large firms and that is a small percentage of graduating lawyers.
It's called and average and median. Simple math. You must have skipped that class. - drakethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Already did. It can't be the highest paid cause obviously the highest paid CEO makes more then 116 thousand a year. If its average then how does the average pilot make 133 thousand... more then the average CEO. They make no sense either way. Then you look at the site and the site is some guys personal blog and domain for his PHP projects. So obviously this is inaccurate but its scary cause morons will believe this stuff just because someone wrote it.
Remember this quote, "If you read it on the net, it must be true" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4this is horse *****. where i work the average programmer makes 90K.
- digrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Owning your own business is the best job out there.
- SenatorPenguin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You're right, lawyers totally make around $100K. This damn list says...$99,800.
We can't let crap like this stay on dig. - coustoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3People with degree and NO exp is like buying something online on ebay from someone with zero feedback. Most people wont buy.
- kidterrific, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3What US is this?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3inaccurate and plagiarized, nice
- albatross5000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3buried: inaccurate
- RoshanK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Top job that dosent require a high school degree-- Scalping video game consoles.
- lunchbox170, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3this is pretty inaccurate, my neighbor is a eye surgeon and he makes in the 400 k area.
Brain surgeons probably make a lot too. - scaaven2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here i'll be everyone here:
"lol bro, i dropped out of highschool and I make 350k a year sucking dick" - nilepoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I like how RN is not on the list. With a Masters in anesthesia (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist) its easy to make six figures (more than alot of MD specialties), and love what you are doing all of three days a week you have to work. Want proof visit gaswork.com and check out the CRNA salaries then compare them to the Anesthesiologist salaries for the same work.
- thekak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The flaw of this list is that it only covers maybe 5% of all professions.
Photography or Graphic Design can easily top those. -
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