According to the latest annual report from the BLS, the worst paid occupation in America is shampooer, followed closely by fast food cooks, cashiers, and dishwashers. But you'd rather know about the top paying occupations, wouldn't you, you money-grubbing fiends? Fine.
It turns out that almost all the top-paying occupations are doctors of some sort, so here are two charts. The top one is for everyone except doctors; the bottom one is for doctors only.
I mean, thanks for the charts, don't get me wrong, but "Athletes," "Chief Executives." "Airline Pilots" --- really?
Where do "Movie Stars" or "Showrunners" land?
I would think BLS would limit this to some sort of qualification that a certain percentage of the population should be able to do the job.
There are about 110,000 commercial pilots in the US.
There is no licensing or qualifications required to be CEO of a company. I mean I know it sounds a bit flip, but you just start one.
Athlete, OK, I'm with you, but you can't leave them off, half the country grows up wanting to be one.
Where do you want the cut-off to be?
I mean, attempted humor aside, your post probably right in that BLS probably just had some minimum number of positions, and at 110,000 jobs it would seem like enough.
Its just odd to me for some reason those particular ones made the cut. All the other jobs are in the millions.
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Is it telling that I don't see blogger listed?
Or bureaucrat. As a lifelong bureaucrat I was constantly hearing that I was overpaid.
I was mocked for how little money I made. Also I was told that all I did was sit around doing nothing.
Now, the same people who mocked me for how little I made tell me how I don’t deserve a pension since they don’t have one.
I'm personally kind of floored that my accidental career is right behind dentists. Dropping out of college was apparently a really good move for me.
I didn't drop out of school, but as an English major I may as well have. Also an IT manager now.
Everybody says that there is a shortage of primary care physicians - for example:
https://www.merritthawkins.com/news-and-insights/blog/healthcare-news-and-trends/physician-shortages-in-medical-specialties-in-2021-an-inside-look/
But internists and family practitioners are way down the list. This is another example of how supply and demand doesn't seem to work in health care. Of course other advanced countries pay physicians about half of what we do.
I don’t see oncologists on that list so I’m assuming Kevin’s doctor has a side gig of some sort?
I wonder what this list looks like in countries that spend sane amounts of money on Healthcare.
Some of the professions listed have widely varying pay. Pilots who work for small. regional carriers don't get paid a lot, nor do a lot of HR managers at smaller companies or in the public sector.
In the “for profit” and so called “non-profit” (sic) medical establishment the goal is revenue. Doctor salaries are the tip of the proverbial iceberg of health care costs. in U.S. healthcare It’s income over outcomes.
If you doubt this check out the source of Senator Rick Scott’s wealth.
I wanted to be an athlete but my parents wouldn't let me. I hope they're happy.
That part of the chart is messed up. The vast majority of "professional athletes" are competitors in Olympic sports that no one really cares about except during the Olympics. There are thousands of professional weightlifters, distance runners, bobsledders, archers, synchronized swimmers, etc; all getting by on stipends of ~$40k or so while training for the games. There are also a lot of pros in obscure sports - professional surfers and rock climbers and the like who make a bit of money from gear sponsors and basically live in their cars.
Even if you include NBA and NFL players in the mix there's no way the average approaches six figures.
No way?
Read the report. These numbers are means, not medians. A few $30 million players raises the average quite a bit.
Yes way.
I wonder where is the cutoff for (of definition of) "athletes"? Does it include club tennis and golf pros? What about high school coaches? Professional women's hockey players?
Speaking as a physicist, if physicists are on this list it is complete bullshit.