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title: "Highest-Paying Jobs in Business"
description: "Every occupation in the SOC management and business-and-financial-operations groups, from chief executive to management analyst, ranked by national…"
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last-updated: "2026-08-23T15:56:39.581Z"
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# Highest-Paying Jobs in Business

Every occupation in the SOC management and business-and-financial-operations groups, from chief executive to management analyst, ranked by national median wage.

30 occupations, in the ranked order the career bank computed. Wages are BLS OEWS, May 2025. Growth figures are BLS Employment Projections and education is the BLS "typical education needed for entry".

| # | Occupation | Median annual wage | Projected growth | Typical education |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | [Chief Executive](https://nuecareer.com/careers/chief-executive) | $213,990 | +4.3% | Bachelor's |
| 2 | [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager) | $175,140 | +15.2% | Bachelor's |
| 3 | [Architectural and Engineering Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/architectural-and-engineering-manager) | $171,270 | +3.8% | Bachelor's |
| 4 | [Natural Sciences Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/natural-sciences-manager) | $167,220 | +3.7% | Bachelor's |
| 5 | [Marketing Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/marketing-manager) | $166,790 | +6.6% | Bachelor's |
| 6 | [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager) | $166,570 | +14.8% | Bachelor's |
| 7 | [Human Resources Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/human-resources-manager) | $149,280 | +5.0% | Bachelor's |
| 8 | [Compensation and Benefits Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/compensation-and-benefits-manager) | $149,230 | +0.2% | Bachelor's |
| 9 | [Sales Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-manager) | $148,270 | +4.7% | Bachelor's |
| 10 | [Purchasing Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/purchasing-manager) | $148,080 | +3.1% | Bachelor's |
| 11 | [Public Relations Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/public-relations-manager) | $146,910 | +5.0% | Bachelor's |
| 12 | [Regulatory Affairs Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/regulatory-affairs-manager) | $141,900 | +4.5% | Bachelor's |
| 13 | [Advertising and Promotions Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/advertising-and-promotions-manager) | $133,660 | -2.2% | Bachelor's |
| 14 | [Training and Development Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/training-and-development-manager) | $133,000 | +5.8% | Bachelor's |
| 15 | [Industrial Production Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/industrial-production-manager) | $126,060 | +1.9% | Bachelor's |
| 16 | [Fundraising Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/fundraising-manager) | $125,470 | +4.2% | Bachelor's |
| 17 | [Medical and Health Services Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/medical-and-health-services-manager) | $123,860 | +23.2% | Bachelor's |
| 18 | [Financial Risk Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-risk-specialist) | $117,330 | +6.5% | Bachelor's |
| 19 | [Construction Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/construction-manager) | $114,990 | +8.7% | Bachelor's |
| 20 | [Administrative Services Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/administrative-services-manager) | $114,130 | +4.6% | Bachelor's |
| 21 | [Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/transportation-storage-and-distribution-manager) | $107,230 | +6.1% | High school |
| 22 | [Facilities Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/facilities-manager) | $106,660 | +3.8% | Bachelor's |
| 23 | [Education Administrator, Kindergarten through Secondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/education-administrator-kindergarten-through-secondary) | $105,870 | -1.5% | Master's |
| 24 | [General and Operations Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/general-and-operations-manager) | $105,770 | +4.4% | Bachelor's |
| 25 | [Financial Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-advisor) | $105,070 | +9.6% | Bachelor's |
| 26 | [Education Administrator, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/education-administrator-postsecondary) | $104,590 | +1.7% | Master's |
| 27 | [Financial and Investment Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-and-investment-analyst) | $102,740 | +5.7% | Bachelor's |
| 28 | [Project Management Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/project-management-specialist) | $102,320 | +5.6% | Bachelor's |
| 29 | [Management Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/management-analyst) | $101,860 | +8.8% | Bachelor's |
| 30 | [Postmaster](https://nuecareer.com/careers/postmaster) | $96,660 | -3.5% | High school |

Full record for any row, including wage percentiles and state-level pay: https://nuecareer.com/careers/{slug} or https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/{slug}.

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This bank includes information from the O\*NET 30.3 Database by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). O\*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. NueCareer has transformed the data by joining it to BLS wage and projection data and deriving facet, personality-fit and AI-resilience scores. BLS and BEA data are public domain (17 U.S.C. §105).

O\*NET content is used under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). How these figures are sourced and derived: https://nuecareer.com/careers/methodology

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