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title: "Jobs That Pay $60k a Year"
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# Jobs That Pay $60k a Year

Occupations whose national median annual wage is at least $60,000 and under $80,000, ranked by projected annual openings. The band has an upper end so each salary level gets its own list; higher-paying jobs are on the $100k and $200k lists.

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 | [First-Line Supervisor of Office and Administrative Support Workers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-office-and-administrative-support-workers) | $69,500 | +0.1% | High school |
| 2 | [Sales Representative of Services, Except Advertising, Insurance, Financial Services, and Travel](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-of-services) | $69,990 | +2.7% | High school |
| 3 | [Sales Representative, Wholesale and Manufacturing, Except Technical and Scientific Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/sales-representative-wholesale-and-manufacturing) | $72,080 | -0.9% | High school |
| 4 | [Substance Abuse and Behavioral Disorder Counselor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/substance-abuse-and-behavioral-disorder-counselor) | $60,320 | +10.9% | Not published by BLS |
| 5 | [Mental Health Counselor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/mental-health-counselor) | $60,320 | +10.9% | Not published by BLS |
| 6 | [Elementary School Teacher](https://nuecareer.com/careers/elementary-school-teacher) | $63,970 | -0.4% | Bachelor's |
| 7 | [Market Research Analyst and Marketing Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/market-research-analyst-and-marketing-specialist) | $78,760 | +7.0% | Bachelor's |
| 8 | [Human Resources Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/human-resources-specialist) | $75,940 | +6.4% | Bachelor's |
| 9 | [Electrician](https://nuecareer.com/careers/electrician) | $63,190 | +9.2% | High school |
| 10 | [First-Line Supervisor of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-construction-trades-and-extraction-workers) | $79,920 | +5.0% | High school |
| 11 | [High School Teacher](https://nuecareer.com/careers/high-school-teacher) | $72,040 | -0.2% | Bachelor's |
| 12 | [Carpenter](https://nuecareer.com/careers/carpenter) | $60,580 | +3.9% | High school |
| 13 | [First-Line Supervisor of Production and Operating Workers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-production-and-operating-workers) | $74,450 | +1.8% | High school |
| 14 | [Licensed Practical Nurse](https://nuecareer.com/careers/licensed-practical-nurse) | $64,400 | +3.0% | Certificate |
| 15 | [Police Officer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/police-officer) | $76,210 | +3.5% | High school |
| 16 | [First-Line Supervisor of Mechanics, Installers, and Repairers](https://nuecareer.com/careers/first-line-supervisor-of-mechanics-installers-and-repairers) | $79,860 | +4.1% | High school |
| 17 | [Buyer and Purchasing Agent, Farm Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/buyer-and-purchasing-agent-farm-products) | $77,710 | +6.0% | Bachelor's |
| 18 | [Wholesale and Retail Buyer, Except Farm Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/wholesale-and-retail-buyer) | $77,710 | +6.0% | Bachelor's |
| 19 | [Purchasing Agent, Except Wholesale, Retail, and Farm Products](https://nuecareer.com/careers/purchasing-agent) | $77,710 | +6.0% | Bachelor's |
| 20 | [Training and Development Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/training-and-development-specialist) | $69,280 | +10.8% | Bachelor's |
| 21 | [Industrial Machinery Mechanic](https://nuecareer.com/careers/industrial-machinery-mechanic) | $64,520 | +17.8% | High school |
| 22 | [Executive Secretary and Executive Administrative Assistant](https://nuecareer.com/careers/executive-secretary-and-executive-administrative-assistant) | $76,590 | 0.0% | High school |
| 23 | [Insurance Sales Agent](https://nuecareer.com/careers/insurance-sales-agent) | $62,280 | +3.3% | High school |
| 24 | [Plumber](https://nuecareer.com/careers/plumber) | $63,800 | +6.8% | High school |
| 25 | [Paralegal](https://nuecareer.com/careers/paralegal) | $62,890 | -0.3% | Associate's |
| 26 | [Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanic and Installer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/heating-air-conditioning-and-refrigeration-mechanic-and-installer) | $61,010 | +10.9% | Certificate |
| 27 | [Computer User Support Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/computer-user-support-specialist) | $61,860 | -3.5% | Some college |
| 28 | [Food Service Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/food-service-manager) | $69,390 | +5.8% | High school |
| 29 | [Middle School Teacher](https://nuecareer.com/careers/middle-school-teacher) | $64,370 | -0.4% | Bachelor's |
| 30 | [Special Education Teacher, Kindergarten](https://nuecareer.com/careers/special-education-teacher-kindergarten) | $67,170 | -0.1% | Not published by BLS |

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 31.0 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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