College Required (Don't tell PILOTYIP)

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America's Highest-Paying Jobs
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By Laura Morsch, CareerBuilder.com writer
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Once you look beyond the doctors, dentists and surgeons, however, the nation's other best-salaried jobs are fairly diverse. Although all of these jobs require a college education, the types of work necessary experience and training vary widely.

1. Chief Executive Officer -- $140,880
Job Description: Oversees all aspects of a corporation, including the company's goals and policies.
Qualifications: Varies, but generally at least a bachelor degree or MBA and considerable work experience.

2. Airline Pilot -- $134,090
Job Description: Transports passengers and cargo via airplane.
Qualifications: Pilot's license, which requires applicants to be at least 23 years old, have at least 1,500 hours of flying experience, and pass a barrage of written and psychological tests.

3. Lawyer -- $110,590
Job Description: Counsels clients on legal matters and represents their party in criminal and civil trials.
Qualifications: Graduation from a law school accredited by the American Bar Association (ABA) and successful completion of their jurisdiction's bar exam.

4. Engineering Manager -- $140,210
Job description: Supervises workers who design machinery, products and quality assurance testing -- often in industrial plants.
Qualifications: At least a bachelor's degree and considerable work experience as an engineer.

5. Air Traffic Controller -- $100,430
Job description: Organizes and controls the flow of airplanes into and out of an airport.
Qualifications: Pre-employment testing, four years of college and/or three years of work experience, completion of the FAA Academy and an additional controller training program.

6. Computer and Information Systems Manager -- $100,110
Job description: Plans and oversees a company's computer-related goals, including supervising computer programmers and support specialists.
Qualifications: At least a bachelor's degree (MBA preferred) and considerable work experience.

7. Marketing Manager -- $100,020
Job description: Develops a company's marketing strategy, including demand for its product or service and how to target potential customers.
Qualifications: Bachelor or master's degree and considerable work experience.

8. Natural Sciences Manager -- $97,560
Job description: Oversees the research and development activities of chemists, biologists, physicists and other life and physical scientists.
Qualifications: Strong technical knowledge, at least a bachelor's degree and considerable work experience.

9. Sales Manager -- $96,950
Job description: Directs the firm's sales staff, including assigning territories and setting goals.
Qualifications: Bachelor's or master's degree and considerable work experience.

10. Astronomer -- $96,780
Job description: Uses physics and math to develop and solve problems in navigation, space flight, satellite communications and methods of collecting astronomical data.
Qualifications: A doctoral degree, postdoctoral research and additional experience.

 

[mar]

I'd never belong to a club that would have me as a member

...and pass a barrage of written and psychological tests.

Wonder how I slipped thru. <twitch>

 

[SkyBoy1981]

Well, if CareerBuilder.com says it...then it MUST be true.

 

[shroomwell]

These things are such B.S., first of average CEO compensation is way higher than that. Second, I gaurantee if every airline pilots W-2's were averaged, and ATC were too, than the ATC's would have us beat. It sjust numbers and how you look at them, all airline bean counters have it down to a science.

 

[flyer172r]

They must've snuck in those psychological tests. I don't remember ever taking one. Although my CFI oral did make me a little crazy.

 

[Ralgha]

These things are such B.S., first of average CEO compensation is way higher than that.

Doubt it. You're only thinking of large company CEOs. Most companies are not that large.

Second, I gaurantee if every airline pilots W-2's were averaged, and ATC were too, than the ATC's would have us beat.

Maybe, but I bet that if you averaged all airline pilots W-2s, the number would be a lot higher than you think it is.

 

[FN FAL]

I'd never belong to a club that would have me as a member

No, you're a member.

 

[mar]

Oh yeah?

No, you're a member.

I've been called worse by better people.

 

[FN FAL]

I've been called worse by better people.

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[pilotyip]

IT IS NOT, I TELL YOU IS NOT TRUE. LOOK AT ATC, IT SAYS 3 YEARS EXPERIENCED, NO COLLEGE REQUIRED. My brother in law high school graduate, auto mechanic, runs a muffler shop makes more than anyone on the list.