5 jobs with surprising 6-figure salaries
May 31, 2008
Here’s a list of jobs in the US with surprisingly high salaries, according to Forbes Magazine.
Is it now time for you to shift careers?
1. Flight Attendants
Job description: Provide personal services to ensure the safety and comfort of airline passengers during flight. Greet passengers, verify tickets, explain use of safety equipment and serve food or beverages. Corporate flight attendants will earn the most.
Top 10% earn $102,660 a year
Average annual salary: $62,880
2. Farm, Ranch and Other Agricultural Managers
Job description: Manage farms, ranches, aqua-cultural operations, greenhouses, nurseries, timber tracts, cotton gins, packing houses or other agricultural establishments for employers. Carry out production, financial and marketing decisions following guidelines from the owner.
Top 10% earn $103,660 a year
Average annual salary: $61,030
3. Gaming Managers
Job Description: Plan, organize, direct, control or coordinate gaming operations in a casino. Formulate gaming policies for their area of responsibility.
Top 10% earn $106,220 a year
Average annual salary: $69,600
4. Air Traffic Controllers
Job description: Control air traffic on and within the vicinity of airport and control movement of air traffic between altitude sectors and control centers according to established procedures and policies. Authorize, regulate and control commercial airline flights according to government or company regulations to expedite and ensure flight safety.
Top 10% earn $141,860
Average annual salary: $107,780
5. Database Administrator
Job description: Coordinate changes to computer databases, test and implement the database applying knowledge of database management systems. May plan, coordinate and implement security measures to safeguard computer databases.
Top 10% earn $106,860 a year
Average annual salary: $70,260
Complete list here.
May 31st, 2008 at %I:%M %p
Time to go back to agriculture ehehehe!
June 1st, 2008 at %I:%M %p
Woah, I want to be an Air Traffic Controller.
Being an Air Traffic Controller and Commercial Plane Pilot has been my dream since I started playing flight simulators. In fact, I have studied some of their terminologies like “run short on Runway XX”, “. I have also studied their protocols, learned that on big airports there are ground control frequencies and the usual air control frequencies. Some do even have a separate frequencies for departures and arrivals.
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Gaming manager, never. Hahaha. I never play online games. All I do is blog, code, blog, code and read. :D
June 6th, 2008 at %I:%M %p
Any job will do except that gaming manager post. I hate gamblers.
July 28th, 2008 at %I:%M %p
I always dream to be flight attendant!! haha just wait i’m gonna be a flight!! next year.. still 17