Tech Jobs Top Best Jobs In America List, Once Again

Yahoo ^ | 01/24/17 | JP Mangalindan

[Enlightened1]

Glassdoor assembles its annual Best Jobs in America list, which is in its fourth year, based on each job’s overall Glassdoor Job Score, a score that is determined by weighing three key factors equally: earning potential based on median annual base salary, job satisfaction rating and the number of current job openings.

Here are the top 10 jobs pulled from Glassdoor’s list:

Data scientist

Job Score: 4.8 Job Satisfaction Rating: 4.2 Number of Job Openings: 4,524 Median Base Salary: $110,000

Devops engineer

Job Score: 4.6 Job Satisfaction Rating: 4.0 Number of Job Openings: 3,369 Median Base Salary: $105,000

Marketing manager

Job Score: 4.6 Job Satisfaction Rating: 4.0 Number of Job Openings: 6,439 Median Base Salary: $85,000

Occupational therapist

Job Score: 4.5 Job Satisfaction Rating: 4.0 Number of Job Openings: 11,903 Median Base Salary: $74,000

HR manager

Job Score: 4.5 Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.9 Number of Job Openings: 4,458 Median Base Salary: $85,000

Electrical engineer

Job Score: 4.5 Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.9 Number of Job Openings: 5,839 Median Base Salary: $76,000

Strategy manager

Job Score: 4.5 Job Satisfaction Rating: 4.2 Number of Job Openings: 1,195 Median Base Salary: $135,000

Mobile developer

Job Score: 4.5 Job Satisfaction Rating: 4.1 Number of Job Openings: 1,809 Median Base Salary: $90,000

Product manager

Job Score: 4.4 Job Satisfaction Rating: 3.7 Number of Job Openings: 7,531 Median Base Salary: $113,000

Manufacturing engineer

Job Score: 4.4 Job Satisfaction Rating: 4.0 Number of Job Openings: 4,241 Median Base Salary: $72,000

(For the full list, click here.)

[TexasGunLover]

Not jealous at all. I’m IN tech. I know we live the cush life and get paid too much.

As am I, but I know we're paid what the market supports.

[discostu]

We do, and for the revenue we generate we balance out. But that doesn’t mean we can’t objectively look at what we do for a living (which for most of us is pretty similar to what for fun when not at work) and realize our pay to effort ratio is pretty sweet.

[discostu]

No fantasy land at all. Nothing about what it means to have a tech job has seriously changed in the last 12 months. Non-job related aspects of the industry might have changed, but we’re all still sitting at the same desks in the same offices with the same computers and the same free sodas and snacks. It’s a cush life.

[glock rocks]

According to the Glassdoor definition, I’m a Devops engineer, though I’ve not heard the term before. I can VPN from home, but I enjoy the company of our aspies and other assorted wierdos at the office. I love my job. That, and it allows me to live indoors and eat food.

[TexasGunLover]

I would agree with that, but don’t feel guilty for good decisions, training in a great field, and one that is in high demand.

[CodeToad]

4 years? Try more than 30 years.

[discostu]

I don’t feel guilty. I feel joy. Having once really worked for a mediocre living (fastfood, aka hell on earth) it’s good to remind myself how good I have it.

[discostu]

4 years for this “survey”. Yeah it goes way back. The stories from the early gaming industry are wild, yeah they worked insane hours, with hot tubs, and wet bars, and free drugs. And some corners are still pretty amazing. Friend of mine just jumped to an LA company, free lunch every day, and by “free lunch” I mean they have a restaurant quality kitchen in the building and hire from nearby restaurants to make their menu to order onsite. I would get soooo fat.

[SoConPubbie]

What’s Trump got to do with tech jobs being the cushiest and most overpaid for 4 years running?

Says who, you?

Its called supply and demand.

And the jobs they do provide value to the business owners employing them.

If anything, they are undervalued, given the on-going pressure to salaries provided by the same business owners via the H1-B program.

[central_va]

Do you write code with deadlines?

[discostu]

We’re not undervalued. There’s still this concept around the industry that this stuff is hard and very few people can do it. Even though the industry is huge and the sheer number of people in it shows lots of folks can do it. As such we get crazy perks that no other industry comes close to, they’re all desperate to keep the mad geniuses happy even though most of us aren’t mad and even fewer are geniuses.

[discostu]

We have deadlines. But we also have very smart managers that make our deadlines achievable. Helps that my company is ruled by folks in their 40s with wives and kids and a life outside of work. They’ve seen how the 100 work week kills marriages and we don’t do that. They’ve also seen how the 100 work week ships crappy code, another good reason to avoid it.

[SoConPubbie]

We’re not undervalued. There’s still this concept around the industry that this stuff is hard and very few people can do it. Even though the industry is huge and the sheer number of people in it shows lots of folks can do it. As such we get crazy perks that no other industry comes close to, they’re all desperate to keep the mad geniuses happy even though most of us aren’t mad and even fewer are geniuses.

Bullshit!

[discostu]

Nope. 100% accurate. As a person who has actually worked for a living and am in tech now we are a seriously pampered elite. Sorry you don’t understand how well treated you are. You should try out life in a real job with no free snacks and a dress code for a while. You’ll appreciate your current life more.

[SoConPubbie]

Nope. 100% accurate. As a person who has actually worked for a living and am in tech now we are a seriously pampered elite.

Nope.

Pretty sure most, IF NOT ALL, of the techies on Freerepublic would argue against you. I am a 25 year veteran of the Tech Economy as a Software Engineer, and I KNOW you are wrong.

You sound like a Social Justice Warrior.

[discostu]

Actually I’ve gotten some agreement. Some of us understand that tech is the good life.

You sound like a whiny bitch. I’m simply acknowledging the truth of my perks and pay. Sorry that bothers you, but that’s on you.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

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