For the fourth consecutive year, the technology sector boasted the highest-paying jobs in the US, according to an annual report from Glassdoor. While tech jobs pay well across the board, the healthcare industry offers the largest paychecks at the very top of the spectrum, the report added. The report gathered salary data from millions of employees, examined job titles that received a minimum of 100 salary reports over the past year, and used algorithms to estimate the median annual base pay. Csuite-level jobs were excluded from the report.Thirteen of the 25 highestpaying jobs this year were in tech, up from 11 in 2017, according to the report, which was released on Wednesday. Within the industry, enterprise architects, software development managers, software engineering managers and software architects received the highest pay, with the lowest average base salary well over $100,000.
Physicians topped the list of highest-paid employees in America, with a median base salary of $195,842. Pharmacy managers and pharmacists came in second and third, with a base pay of $146,412 and $127,120, respectively.
“Technology and healthcare are the two industries that are making the greatest impact on the economy,” said Sarah Stoddard, a community expert at Glassdoor. “There’s a high demand but short supply for those roles, driving salaries.”
While men are over-represented in the country’s highestpaying jobs, the breakdown is different between tech and healthcare. Tech companies employ more than twice as many males as females, according to a 2017 LinkedIn report. Healthcare, on the other hand, has a slightly bigger proportion of women. But there’s still a significant pay gap between medical specialties.
Doctors and engineers have technical skills that come with a high price tag. But Stoddard said business and consulting expertise, along with interpersonal communication skills, are still valued in the job market. Strategy manager and consulting manager joined the list of the country’s top-paying jobs for the first time this year.