It's graduation season, and though employment is coolingit is still possible to find entry-level roles with average six-figure salaries for those who have graduated from university or graduate school.
Fox Business looked in which jobs had the highest entry-level salary based on an analysis of Glassdoor salaries submitted between May 1, 2023 and April 30, 2024. Each job had at least 75 salaries submitted by Glassdoor users.
The result is a list of the 15 highest paying jobs based on average salary.
Seven engineering positions made the list. The other eight roles were in counselling, medicine or law.
The last REPORT from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that employers added fewer jobs than expected and than average in April. Bloomberg pointed out that the overall job gain of 175,000 was the smallest recorded by the BLS in six months.
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Here are the top 15 jobs with the highest average salaries.
1. Primary Care Physician
Average salary: $130,000
2. Pharmacist
Average salary: $120,000
3. Software Architect
Average salary: $120,000
4. Product manager
Average salary: $110,000
5. Software Engineer
Average salary: 100,000 dollars
6. Data engineer
Average salary: $93,472
7. Lawyer
Average salary: 90,000 dollars
8. Hardware Engineer
Average salary: $85,000
9. Information security specialist
Average salary: $83,000
10. Chemical Engineer
Average salary: 82,000 dollars
11. Management Consultant
Average salary: 82,000 dollars
12. Actuarial consultant
Average salary: $81,150
13. Electrical Engineer
Average salary: 80,500 dollars
14. Design engineer
Average salary: $78,000
15. Mechanical Engineer
Average salary: 75500 dollars