Wages vary greatly from one country to another, and even within the same country, but for some jobs they pay so much that is enough for a comfortable life and a secure old age.
To find the highest paying jobs in the world, we compared the average wages in the US, UK, Germany and Canada using PayScale.com statistics, Career Profiles and other sources.
Not included in the list highest paid athletes or highest paid Hollywood actorsbecause their incredibly large salaries are the result of not only skill and long-term training, but also active PR and huge popularity, which is unattainable for representatives of most professions.
10. Air traffic controller
Highest salary: $ 155,000
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is responsible for the employment of such experts in the United States. Air traffic controllers are responsible for the safe operation of private and commercial airlines.
First of all, the responsibility is to coordinate the movement of aircraft in the airspace (all aircraft must be at a safe distance from each other). Typically, a team of air traffic controllers work together to coordinate the takeoff and landing of planes, transport buses to airport gates, and communicate with pilots and warn of bad weather conditions.
To become an air traffic controller, you must enroll in a special FAA approved program and complete all checks. Exceptions can only be made for those who already have experience in the aviation or military fields. Typically, you need 4 years of study, 3 years of work experience and your application for the exam.
If you are selected and you have successfully passed the exam, 12 weeks of training will follow, the results of which will lead you to a specialty route designer. And only after 2-4 years of work in this specialty, you will receive the profession of an air traffic controller.
However, with the development of information technology, the demand for air traffic controllers is falling. Therefore, it would be wiser to consider one of the professions that will be in demand after 2020. Or choose one of the most unusual professions in the worldif you like originality and creativity.
9. Chief engineer
Highest salary: $ 190,000
Chief engineers have a wide range of duties and responsibilities, which explains the high pay for their work. People with higher education, whose work experience is from 5 years or more, are hired for this position.
The highest salaries are for chief engineers from Canada. There they are paid about 190 thousand dollars. In the United States, the labor of representatives of this profession is estimated at 156 thousand dollars annually, and in Germany and England - at 176 thousand and 136 thousand dollars, respectively.
8. Corporate lawyer
Highest annual salary: $ 195,000
Corporate attorneys work as in-house attorneys for a particular company.They coordinate relationships with contract law firms, advise business leaders on the legal implications of business practices, review commercial agreements and contracts, and monitor compliance with industry regulations.
In the United States, a good corporate lawyer can achieve an annual salary of $ 195,000, in Germany he will receive up to $ 190,000, and in the UK - about $ 160,000.
Canada's top paid corporate lawyers boast an annual salary of $ 130,000.
7. Psychiatrist
Highest salary: $ 216,000
Foreign psychiatrists are paid very well to keep people "sane and sober." This is the best and highest paid hourly job. On average, a psychiatrist in the United States earns $ 85.35 per hour of work.
According to the forecasts of the American edition of Career Profiles, the demand for psychiatrists will remain very high in the near future. Psychiatrists specializing in geriatrics, children and other subspecialists will be more in demand than generalists.
And we completely agree with this, because although the science of mental disorders arose much later than the disorders themselves, it will disappear only with humanity.
6. Orthodontist
Highest salary: $ 327,000
Perhaps being an orthodontist in Europe and the United States is a little less prestigious than a neurosurgeon or anesthesiologist, but representatives of this profession do not complain about low salaries.
However, the training time for such a complex job is 7 years or more,
5. Neurosurgeons and general surgeons
Highest salary: $ 396,000
Dealing with complications in the human brain is not easy, which is why neurosurgeons are worth every cent they receive. Their colleagues - general surgeons - also don't complain about low salaries.
But along with respect and big money, they deal with life-saving stress on a daily basis, because if a neurosurgeon or surgeon makes even a small mistake, they can kill the patient or leave him disabled for life.
This is the path that a person who has chosen medicine in the USA will have to go through:
- four years of study at a university with a pre-med bias;
- 3 years of medical school;
- from 3 to 7 years of residency training, depending on the chosen specialization.
There is also an MD / PhD - that is, additional postgraduate studies for up to 5 years, but it is chosen by few doctors who want to thoroughly understand all the intricacies of the profession.
Even general surgery and small-scale operations require additional formal training and many years of experience. Naturally, to start a long and thorny path upward, a bachelor's degree is enough for you, although it is preferable to select biology or another science, since it is possible to get general knowledge for admission to medical school.
Despite the fact that the profession of a surgeon is one of the highest paid professions in the world, things are not so simple or cheap. More than 80 percent of medical school graduates have monetary tuition arrears.
4. Anesthesiologist
Highest annual salary: $ 410,000
Doctors who administer anesthetics before, during, or after surgery or other medical procedures earn more than their aesthetic colleagues. Thanks to anesthesiologists, people do not experience pain during surgical operations and safely come out of anesthesia. By the way, anesthesiologists are also in charge of pain relief during childbirth.
In the United States, an anesthesiologist can earn over $ 410,000 a year. In the UK, the salary of an anesthesiologist can be up to $ 275,000, and in Germany up to $ 300,000. The salary for an anesthesiologist in Canada reaches $ 300,000 per year.
It is curious that doctors in the United States are often provided with such privileges as a parking space near work, free meals, and various insurances, which include protection from lawsuits from patients.
In Russia, anesthesiologists are paid, on average, 540 thousand rubles per year or 45 thousand per month. And they can only dream of such salaries and privileges as those of foreign colleagues.
3. Captain of the aircraft
Highest salary: $ 452,000
If you love to travel, then becoming a pilot, and eventually captain of an airplane, is the best job in the world. It will allow you to move from one place to another and receive a high price for it. Not to mention the fact that piloting an aircraft is a prestigious and highly respected occupation.
Such high salaries are a consequence of the highest qualifications and a very large physical and mental stress that falls on the shoulders of the commanders of air liners. After all, they are responsible for the lives of hundreds of people during each flight. And many flights take place at night and last five hours or more.
In addition to high salaries, American pilots have a number of privileges. For example, free flights on airplanes of any airlines in the United States and with large discounts on the airplanes of many foreign airlines. The same discounts, reaching 90% of the ticket price, are given to the family of pilots (wives, children, parents).
2. General Director
Highest salary: $ 430,000 and up
The people who are responsible for defining or formulating company policy are called the chief officers of the public or private sector organization.
They are the ones who coordinate, plan and direct the company's activities at the highest level. And given the hard work they do to keep their company afloat, CEOs deserve the pay they receive.
Of course, their income can vary greatly depending on the business, but in general they are quite generous.
1. Director of the bank
Highest salary: $ 20 million
Here is the answer to the question of which profession is the highest paid. Being a director is good, but a banker is better. And the best thing is to be a director of a bank in the United States, because in this position you can earn on average 2.1 times more than pay in comparable financial companies in Europe.
Four bank directors in the United States each received $ 20 million each in 2016, according to a study by the Financial Times and consulting firm Equilar. And the maximum salary for the head of a European bank was $ 14 million.
One possible explanation for such a large wage gap is the higher profitability of American banks.