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title: "Jobs That Pay $100k a Year"
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# Jobs That Pay $100k a Year

Occupations whose national median annual wage is $100,000 or more, ranked by projected annual openings rather than by pay, so the list answers which six-figure jobs actually hire in volume instead of repeating the top of the highest-paying list. A six-figure median is a stronger claim than a six-figure ceiling: it means half the people already in the occupation earn more than that.

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 | [General and Operations Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/general-and-operations-manager) | $105,770 | +4.4% | Bachelor's |
| 2 | [Software Developer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/software-developer) | $135,980 | +15.8% | Bachelor's |
| 3 | [Regulatory Affairs Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/regulatory-affairs-manager) | $141,900 | +4.5% | Bachelor's |
| 4 | [Management Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/management-analyst) | $101,860 | +8.8% | Bachelor's |
| 5 | [Project Management Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/project-management-specialist) | $102,320 | +5.6% | Bachelor's |
| 6 | [Financial Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-manager) | $166,570 | +14.8% | Bachelor's |
| 7 | [Medical and Health Services Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/medical-and-health-services-manager) | $123,860 | +23.2% | Bachelor's |
| 8 | [IT Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/it-manager) | $175,140 | +15.2% | Bachelor's |
| 9 | [Sales Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-manager) | $148,270 | +4.7% | Bachelor's |
| 10 | [Construction Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/construction-manager) | $114,990 | +8.7% | Bachelor's |
| 11 | [Marketing Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/marketing-manager) | $166,790 | +6.6% | Bachelor's |
| 12 | [Computer Systems Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-systems-analyst) | $105,850 | +8.7% | Bachelor's |
| 13 | [Lawyer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/lawyer) | $159,670 | +4.1% | Doctorate |
| 14 | [Web Administrator](https://nuecareer.com/careers/web-administrator) | $116,580 | +8.2% | Bachelor's |
| 15 | [Nurse Practitioner](https://nuecareer.com/careers/nurse-practitioner) | $132,300 | +40.1% | Master's |
| 16 | [Health Specialties Teacher, Postsecondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/health-specialties-teacher-postsecondary) | $107,310 | +17.3% | Doctorate |
| 17 | [Sales Representative, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Technical and Scientific Product](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-wholesale-and-manufacturing-technical-and-scientific-product) | $104,920 | +1.9% | Bachelor's |
| 18 | [Industrial Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/industrial-engineer) | $102,440 | +11.0% | Bachelor's |
| 19 | [Financial and Investment Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-and-investment-analyst) | $102,740 | +5.7% | Bachelor's |
| 20 | [Financial Advisor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/financial-advisor) | $105,070 | +9.6% | Bachelor's |
| 21 | [Civil Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/civil-engineer) | $100,840 | +5.0% | Bachelor's |
| 22 | [Data Scientist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/data-scientist) | $120,230 | +33.5% | Bachelor's |
| 23 | [Administrative Services Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/administrative-services-manager) | $114,130 | +4.6% | Bachelor's |
| 24 | [Chief Executive](https://nuecareer.com/careers/chief-executive) | $213,990 | +4.3% | Bachelor's |
| 25 | [Education Administrator, Kindergarten through Secondary](https://nuecareer.com/careers/education-administrator-kindergarten-through-secondary) | $105,870 | -1.5% | Master's |
| 26 | [Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/transportation-storage-and-distribution-manager) | $107,230 | +6.1% | High school |
| 27 | [Mechanical Engineer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/mechanical-engineer) | $104,110 | +9.1% | Bachelor's |
| 28 | [Human Resources Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/human-resources-manager) | $149,280 | +5.0% | Bachelor's |
| 29 | [Industrial Production Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/industrial-production-manager) | $126,060 | +1.9% | Bachelor's |
| 30 | [Information Security Analyst](https://nuecareer.com/careers/information-security-analyst) | $129,180 | +28.5% | Bachelor's |

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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