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Re: 6 most highest paid jobsInvestment 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.
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Re: 6 most highest paid jobsComparison of FTSE 100
http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1886010,00.html
A more useful one
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Re: 6 most highest paid jobsIMO 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.High level corporate management and executives
EDIT: I mean jobs that graduates tend to enter, so it excludes being a footballer or popstar!Last edited by Vincente; 07-12-2006 at 23:24. -
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Re: 6 most highest paid jobsUSA Today has a professional sportspeople salary database http://asp.usatoday.com/sports/baseb...s/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 .(Original post by thegreatstupendo)
Investment Banking, and other financial related jobs (I'm including stockbroking, fund management, accountancy, actuary etc.).
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Re: 6 most highest paid jobsLaw 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?
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Re: 6 most highest paid jobs£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!
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Re: 6 most highest paid jobsDunno, according to that website (thisismoney.co.uk)(Original post by Chassez)
Errrm no. Possibly in USA but not here.
TOP EARNERS: Doctors saw their salaries rise 20% to £81,744 last year making theirs the second-best paid job in Britain -
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Re: 6 most highest paid jobsisn't that on average of all individuals in the field?(Original post by 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
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. -
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Re: 6 most highest paid jobsLook. 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.
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Re: 6 most highest paid jobsI 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"(Original post by 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.
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.Last edited by Howard; 14-06-2007 at 17:49.
