Salary Comparison Chart Enables Salary Comparison, Showing Top Salary By Profession
A Salary Comparison Chart For Those Curious About What Their Brother-in-law Makes
The following Salary Comparison Chart shows 25 top ranked occupations by average annual and hourly earnings, full-time workers. This National Compensation Survey, was done by the Department of Labor in July 2004.
Comparison of 25 top ranked occupations by average annual and hourly earnings
| Salary Comparison Chart of Topped Paid Occupations | Annual salary ranking | | Physicians | 1 | | Airplane pilots and navigators | 2 | | Medical science teachers | 3 | | Judges | 4 | | Optometrists | 5 | | Lawyers | 6 | | Managers, marketing, advertising, and public relations | 7 | | Chief executives and general administrators, public administration | 8 | | Economics teachers | 9 | | Securities and financial services sales occupations | 10 | | Announcers | 11 | | Engineering teachers | 12 | | Petroleum engineers | 13 | | Law teachers | 14 | | Pharmacists | 15 | | Aerospace engineers | 16 | | Dentists | 17 | | Managers and administrators, n.e.c. | 18 | | Physicists and astronomers | 19 | | Electrical and electronic engineers | 20 | | Chemical engineers | 21 | | Financial managers | 22 | | Sales engineers | 23 | | Physics teachers | 24 | | Nuclear engineers | 25 | | Occupations whose ranking entered or left the top 25 positions when annual and hourly earnings were compared | Business, commerce, and marketing teachers | 50 | Biological science teachers | 33 | Social science teachers, n.e.c. | 49 | English teachers | 42 | Sociology teachers | 35 | Computer science teachers | 51 | Theology teachers | 67 | | NOTE: Earth, environmental, and marine science teachers ranked 26th on an annual earnings basis and 10th on the hourly scale. |

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