Posted on 09/23/2015 7:48:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Thinking about a new job? Before you start your job search, you may want to consider a job that’s among those seeing the biggest jumps in total pay over the past year.
To help, Glassdoor is here with our newest report on the 20 Jobs with the Biggest Pay Raises, identifying the top 20 jobs where total pay has increased the most over the past year. Salaries for these 20 jobs have grown 3 - 10% over the past year, all above the national average for salary increase (2.2%), according to BLS.
As part of this report, we include the total pay for each job title for 2015 and 2014, the percentage increase in total pay, and the number of job openings.
Check out the top 20 results:
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Methodology: For a job title to be considered for Glassdoor's report on the 20 Jobs with the Biggest Pay Raises, job titles must have at least 500 salary reports shared by U.S.-based employees on Glassdoor for 2015 (9/11/14-9/10/15) and 2014 (9/11/13-9/10/14), respectively. Salary reports represent total pay, which includes base pay, tips, commissions, bonuses and all other forms of pay reported. Job openings represent active job listings on Glassdoor as of 9/10/15. Rankings represent percentages beyond the thousandth, and percentages are rounded to the nearest whole number for simplicity of reporting. This report takes into account job title normalization that groups similar job titles.
and plumber.
Living in NJ, this is actually grim; those salaries wouldn’t go far at all here (considering many homes have property taxes of $10K or more - and not necessarily in nice areas). Having worked the same job for years, it is frightening to consider that losing it would probably make it necessary to leave the state; this is happening all over NJ as employers leave (taking good jobs with them). Most “service economy” jobs simply won’t pay the bills here.
Barista at 5, security officer (mall cop) 2..
Gee, what a future.
I don’t see how some of these jobs pay all the bills anywhere.
$24,000 isn’t a living wage anywhere. Of course being a barista is not a serious occupation either.
I also would not want a $20,000 a year cook being responsible for the outcome of my next BM. That’s scary.
As I understand New Jersey, in particular, there are two types of people living there: The ones that get a free ride from the state (on everything), and the ones that pay for their own way...but then have to fully subsidize one of those families getting a free ride - hence of your $10k in property tax, half is for you paying for the services you receive, and the other half is paying for the services that the other family you’re supporting receives.
Think about it - the PERCENTAGE of incomes paid there in state and local taxes was MUCH LOWER a few decades back...not just the amount paid, but just the percentages.
Something changed and the windbag running the state doesn’t seem interested in doing a damn thing about it.
Be all you can be! Many of those are not careers. Let’s work to subtly set American’s expectations in this new world order. Here is the fundamental change we were told about. Aspire to be mediocre! Viva La Estados Unidos!
Boy Howdy! Does this one ever bring to mind the Mark Twain (Samuel Clements to you purist) quote about Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.
These are statistics that make me want to cry.
Where Has my country gone?
My nephew is a research scientist with a PhD and he’s having trouble finding a job.
You really want a good paying job? Get into quality and compliance for medical devices or pharmaceuticals. I’m starting fresh engineers at 55K with no experience - but you’ll work and the hours and travel can be hard. I’ve one senior position left I’m hiring for with a world class company ... ping me if you have process validation experience...
True; at my job a lot of people avoid using the food service (mostly staffed by foreigners) because they were getting sick from the food. Still, I’d rather earn $24K in the South than up here...
Good description, but missing some key components: About $8K of your property taxes goes to paying for public schools, and much of those taxes go to paying people who retired 20 years ago. The “windbag” (Christie) did something about it: Our taxes can’t increase more than 2% (whereas before they would climb 6-7% annually), so the gubmint workforce is shrinking as 5% raises for teachers forces layoffs of workers - including teachers with less seniority.
There is little left for current services; I’ve seen stop signs obscured by branches because there is no money left to pay someone to clear them, and our roads make Mogadishu look nice.
In my small town, one can do fine on a barista salary. Cheap living out here in the midwest.
But, same deal here. My paved street has gradually become a gravel road. Our tax base is too small, and we can’t keep up with inflation to maintain the streets. 75% of my taxes go to the school, which has great facilities for such a small town. I’d gladly pay my share of school taxes to the street department instead, because we home school, and don’t use the glittering tower of schoolish facilities.
Article is a joke because there is no perspective when comparing 24k jobs to 100k jobs
Our school facilities are run down, as those high property taxes go straight to teacher salaries (without funding the pension obligations included in those salaries). NJ and states like CA are doomed because anyone moving there is basically buying a share in a huge IOU; businesses see that and flee. We end up with a bloated government worker caste, the low-skill jobs cooking their food and cutting their lawns, and a growing number of illegals and unassimilated minorities that contribute nothing to the tax base.
To me, undertaker and plumber (repairs) are the best paying jobs with the added benefit of not really being influenced by the economy.
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