Entry-Level Jobs That Pay More Than $50k
 

Here are ten tried-and-true career groups that advertise beginning earnings at -- or well above -- the $50,000 level:

(payscale.com)


1. Marketing and Sales Managers -- $80,000 entry earnings
2. High School Teachers -- $59,269 entry earnings
3. Education Administrators -- $80,000 entry earnings
4. Staff RN -- $63,803 entry earnings
5. Network Systems and Data Communications Analysts -- $53,000 entry earnings
6. Computer Software Engineers -- $58,900 entry earnings
7. Physical Therapist -- $61,478 entry earnings
8. Restaurant Managers -- $53,255 entry earnings
9. Web Designer -- $51,931 entry earnings
10. Financial Analyst -- $84,000 entry earnings

Erm...my girlfriend is a first-year high school teacher and she only makes $39,000...

i dont know of any teachers that make almost 60K their first year. However, I know they make at least mid thirties 10 above us.

Shhh... don't tell Skyhigh that. (see the Do I have a Future Here? thread to understand)

Just read that on Yahoo. I would agree with most all except HS teachers (around my area anyways). They start at just over $30,000. Your mileage varies by location, so I wouldn't put it under "tried and true".

Hey There
 

Busted !!! :) Just kidding.


SkyHigh

Teachers
 

This thread has higher numbers than what I was using.


It is important to remember that these are STARTING wages. It wasn't very long ago that pilots had to spend years in flight schools instructing then go on to a piston cargo outfit for another two years before reaching a regional.

Those days will return. High School Teachers apparently start out at "$59,269 entry earnings". I even have a friend who upon signing a contract as a brand new high school biology teacher will get all his student loans paid off for him in 5 years.

SkyHigh

These pay scales only hold true in Cal & NY. Otherwise there BS.

Even in NY those are not true. Im from western NY, Buffalo region, and starting teacher salary is around $35K. My gf is a teacher down in Washington DC, she's in her second year and making just over $40K.

I was just looking at teacher salaries last night, and even down by NYC starting salaries appear to be right in the neighborhood of $50K, which in that area has the spending power of about $30K on my side of the state.

It's all relative, but it's not the rosy picture some people on here try to paint for us convincing us our gig is so terrible.

I'd agree, they do seem kinda high. If you go to that site they say we make a boat load more then we do.