[Article] “Which industry has the highest-paying jobs?” by Benjamin Todd

New tax data lets us accurately estimate which 11 jobs and industries are the highest paying on average, and for top performers.

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Outline:

(02:14) List of the highest paying jobs according to tax data

(03:51) Which jobs are included in the table?

(05:52) How do the highest-earning people make their money?

(07:07) Which high-paying jobs are missing? How to make it into the top 1% as a blue collar worker.

(09:07) What about narrower categories of job?

(11:28) What about other countries?

(12:03) What about capital gains?

(15:30) What about lifetime income?

(18:00) So which career paths are highest paid overall?

(19:57) In which job should you earn to give?

(22:28) You might also be interested in

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First published:
May 10th, 2017

Last updated:
April 13th, 2025

Source:
https://80000hours.org/articles/highest-paying-jobs

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