Posted on 01/10/2020 9:40:27 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Can you have a job with high satisfaction that also pays six figures? What about first-time job hunters? The answer to both questions is, “Yes.”
If you choose wisely.
The jobs environment is getting rosier, at least judging by the latest jobs figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.5% in December and remained near a 50-year low. The labor force participation rate was 63.2% in December, unchanged from the previous month, helped by an increase in women aged 25 to 34 looking for work and/or getting jobs.
The 2019 best job for college graduates that pays over $100,000
Jeff Gillis and Mike Simpson, who operate TheInterviewGuys.com, a site that offers career and resume advice, analyzed the Occupational Requirements Survey by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which gives information on physical demands, environmental conditions, education, training, and experience, as well as cognitive and mental requirements for jobs in the U.S. economy.
Approximately 64% of pharmacists require no previous work experience in that field, and have a median salary of $126,000 per year, more than twice the national average, and 60% of nurse practitioners, which have a median salary of $114,000 per year, also require no work experience, according to the analysis by Gillis and Simpson and the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics figures.
They looked for jobs in the “sweet spot,” positions not requiring experience and still paying well. “Gaining more experience in a given field can definitely give you the upper hand at your place of employment, especially when it comes to negotiating salary,” Gillis and Simpson said. “Employees could expect to make an average of 66% more when they crossed the four-plus-year threshold.”
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A closer look at what it takes for graduates to earn six-figures
Those high median salaries and low experience requirements come after a hard slog in college and, in some cases, graduate school. “Pharmacists, for example, must obtain a doctoral degree in pharmacy to enter the workforce, plus have passing grades on the Pharmacy College Admission Test, and other benchmarks even to be considered.
High-school teachers and special education teachers were the top jobs that most often required no previous experience (91% of those jobs, respectively). But annual salaries for both jobs hover at just over $60,000, according to the BLS. Police patrol officers were No. 3 on the list of jobs requiring no previous experience and have a median annual salary of $65,400.
I know some people who never graduated college and make right at 7 figures a year and have been for decades.
Millennials Can Make $100k Working At Taco Bell:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/millennials-can-make-100k-working-taco-bell
Millennials Can Make $100k Working At Taco Bell:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/millennials-can-make-100k-working-taco-bell
DeNiro?....................
Yes, I know of a neighbor’s kid with just a high school diploma who makes 100K managing a Jimmy John’s.
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In my case it required 10 months in a four night a week course in COBOL IMS - and a tuition cost of $2,400.
“Approximately 64% of pharmacists require no previous work experience in that field, and have a median salary of $126,000 per year.”
The medical field has done a great self-serving job of keeping the tap closed down on educating qualified people to do the job. Compared to engineering or law, there are not nearly enough seats in schools to meet the demand of qualified applicants.
Grade School Principals make around $100/year.
Sales?
That's only true in major cities. But the cost of living is much greater there as well, which is why this figure is on the very high side.
Know a young guy in his mid 20’s who is a residential electrician. Last year he made a little over 100k working regular hours with just a little overtime. Went to trade school and started working right away.
no experience my arse...
If they are like my bosses, it also requires no education whatsoever.
STEM. It is what’s for dinner.
The curriculum to become a pharmacist or a nurse practitioner is difficult and takes hard work and study to accomplish, resulting in a deficit of workers, which causes high wages. Mothers, don’t let your babies grow up to be students in liberal arts. It is really easy to graduate, but murder to get a good payng job.
Same probably holds true for a lot of the service technicians, such as heating & A/C repair. Once you become proficient you can even start your own business if you are so inclined, and hire others to do the actual work. 8>)
A good looking gal in pharma sales can do reeeeeeeeal well.
Yep, they have always limited the number of Doctors and nurses so as to artificially inflate salaries. It is good for those who make it. Terrible for the good candidates screened out.
I had a college roomate who would have made a passionate and dedicated doctor, but he couldn’t get the straight A’s required to be accepted to med school. He became a terrific Pharmacist.
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