airline pilots<\/a>, copilots, and flight engineers ranked No. 1, with an average of $288,650. Many of the jobs were managerial, so they may require working your way up before entering those roles.<\/p>\nBelow are the 20 highest-paying jobs outside healthcare, along with employment estimates for each.<\/p>\n
20. Advertising and promotions managers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $154,280<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 21,470<\/p>\n 19. Purchasing managers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $156,360<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 84,320<\/p>\n 18. Personal financial advisors<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $156,670<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 266,800<\/p>\n 17. Petroleum engineers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $157,150<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 18,060<\/p>\n 16. Compensation and benefits managers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $162,640<\/p>\nEmployment: <\/strong>22,940<\/p>\n 15. Computer hardware engineers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $162,670<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 76,660<\/p>\n 14. Human resources managers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $164,230<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 220,660<\/p>\n 13. Sales managers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $164,350<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 637,080<\/p>\n 12. Public relations managers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $164,760<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 74,850<\/p>\n 11. Industrial-organizational psychologists<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $170,230<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 790<\/p>\n 10. Physicists<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $171,180<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 20,430<\/p>\n 9. Marketing managers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $177,770<\/p>\nEmployment: <\/strong>395,240<\/p>\n 8. Natural sciences managers<\/p>\n
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Johner Images\/Getty Images <\/p>\n
Average annual wage:<\/strong> $180,250<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 108,690<\/p>\n 7. Architectural and engineering managers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $181,540<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 220,260<\/p>\n 6. Lawyers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $185,840<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 754,500<\/p>\n 5. Financial managers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $186,910<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 841,710<\/p>\n 4. Computer and information systems managers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $192,160<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 670,570<\/p>\n 3. Athletes and sports competitors<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $206,180<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 15,070<\/p>\n 2. Chief executives<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $269,630<\/p>\nEmployment: <\/strong>204,350<\/p>\n 1. Airline pilots, copilots, and flight engineers<\/p>\n
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Average annual wage:<\/strong> $288,650<\/p>\nEmployment:<\/strong> 103,560<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Being a doctor is one way to make more than six figures. Financial managers, pilots, and computer hardware…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1044687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4316],"tags":[287499,141374,287500,2284,8557,287497,287498,105,4348,148173,5701,287496,18642,22750,16,15,978,13690],"class_list":["post-1044686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-bls-datum","tag-bureau","tag-computer-hardware-engineer","tag-copilot","tag-doctor","tag-financial-manager","tag-flight-engineer","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-instance","tag-job","tag-labor-statistics-datum","tag-may","tag-pilot","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-us","tag-way"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116798714484418430","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1044687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}