6 most highest paid jobs

Im wondering what you all think would be the top 6 richest paid jobs. Medicine and Dentistry obviously are up there but what else after that?

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Reply 1

thegreatstupendo

Investment Banking, and other financial related jobs (I'm including stockbroking, fund management, accountancy, actuary etc.).
Law at top firms.
Entrepreneurship if you're successful.
High level corporate management and executives.
Professional sportspeople.
Other celebrities, such as pop stars and actors.

Reply 2

bluenoxid

Comparison of FTSE 100

http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1886010,00.html

A more useful one

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=411942&in_page_id=2

Reply 3

Vincente

High level corporate management and executives

IMO the highest by a long way if you are a CEO or a director of a company. This is especially if the company is in the London stock exchange and you are a member of the board of directors. You not only get a big basic salary, you get a percentage of annual turnover, plus bonuses, plus a percentage of shares (although they could drop) and extra stuff like free health and dental care.

EDIT: I mean jobs that graduates tend to enter, so it excludes being a footballer or popstar!

Reply 4

sim90

As a management consultant you can get over £250,000.

Reply 5

Actuary

thegreatstupendo

USA Today has a professional sportspeople salary database http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/salaries/default.aspx . An actuarial salary survey is at http://www.dwsimpson.com/salary.html , and I found some accounting ones at http://www.jobstar.org/tools/salary/sal-acfn.php .

Reply 6

soup_dragon87

The ex-BBC head/new ITV head Michael Grade is getting £845,000 a year plus benefits.

Reply 7

g2da3

can someone explain what fund management is please i here it so much ?!?

Reply 8

Ghetto_Princess12

Investment Banking- Actuaries, stockbrokers.
Private dentist's
Lawyers
Physicists
Docters.

Reply 9

Brown Patrick Bateman

LDK

Medicine and Dentistry obviously are up there

Errrm no. Possibly in USA but not here.

Reply 10

andy_1989

Law is good but only partners in top city firms earn masses of money, I no that qualified lawyers in top city firms can expect aroung a maximum of £55,000 - not masses but a pretty good salary. Does anyone how this figure goes up? Do you have to be made partner before you start earning 6 figures?

Reply 11

parties-r-us!

£55,000 is not the max, ive seen more, if u manage to get in wth the US firms based in London you can be on a starting wage (upon qualification) of like 75,000...once you reach partner in any law firm i guess you would be pretty loaded!

Reply 12

Fleece

Chassez

Errrm no. Possibly in USA but not here.

Dunno, according to that website (thisismoney.co.uk)

TOP EARNERS: Doctors saw their salaries rise 20% to £81,744 last year making theirs the second-best paid job in Britain

Reply 13

bikerx23

Fleece

Dunno, according to that website (thisismoney.co.uk)

TOP EARNERS: Doctors saw their salaries rise 20% to £81,744 last year making theirs the second-best paid job in Britain

isn't that on average of all individuals in the field?

If you took all CEO's, there would be a lot of small firms dragging the average down, but if you were the CEO of, say, Mars. inc., you would be one of the richest men on earth.

To be honest, some the richest people on earth dont have jobs, just own manhattan property sites.

Reply 14

Top_Gear

come on the brokers...

Reply 15

PortfolioManager

Look. this question is flawed. Every single sector you can make top money if you become the main man, CEO, head, etc. Every type of business is respectable when you are at the top. If you talking about starting graduate salaries, then investment banking beats them all.

Reply 16

hungry_hog

Investment Banking- Actuaries, stockbrokers.
Private dentist's
Lawyers
Physicists
Docters.

you having a giraffe mate? Have a look at the back of New Scientist and see what physicists are being paid

Reply 17

bally

specialist doctors - $400 000 + in australia

Reply 18

Howard

PortfolioManager

I have to agree. It's silly trying to describe Company CEO as a "job" A CEO can earn nothing or a couple hundred million a year. Pointing out great exceptions to the rule "specialist doctor in Australia" :rolleyes:

isn't really very helpful.

Having said that I suppose it's also silly to generalize too much. I note with interest that I earn more than a UK medical practitioner and I work in the construction industry.

Reply 19

Beckifoxall

IT spcialists now, as there are less and less people taking it at uni, and the courses from academies are too expensive, but im tryin to get on to a free one :p: