MONEY Magazine and Salary.com rate careers on salary and job prospects. |  |
| GRADES: |
Stress: C
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Flexibility: C
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Creativity: D
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Difficulty: B
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| 75% in this career make more than: |
$67,919 |
$70,629 |
| 50% in this career make more than: |
$77,084 |
$80,713 |
| 25% in this career make more than: |
$88,105 |
$93,608 |
| Top potential compensation (5% make more): |
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$252,106 |
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| Total jobs 2004: |
1,380,873 |
| Forecast 2014: |
1,879,407 |
| Average annual growth (including new jobs and net replacement): |
67,340 |
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| Analysts - Analyze science, engineering, business, and all other data processing problems for application to electronic data processing systems. Analyze user requirements, procedures, and problems to automate or improve existing systems and review computer system capabilities, workflow, and scheduling limitations. May analyze or recommend commercially available software. May supervise computer programmers. Managers - Plan, direct, or coordinate activities in such fields as electronic data processing, information systems, systems analysis, and computer programming. Administrators - Coordinate changes to computer databases, test and implement the database applying knowledge of database management systems. May plan, coordinate, and implement security measures to safeguard computer databases. Install, configure, and support an organization's local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and Internet system or a segment of a network system. Maintain network hardware and software. Monitor network to ensure network availability to all system users and perform necessary maintenance to support network availability. May supervise other network support and client server specialists and plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures. |
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| Chief Executives |
$254,643 |
| Physician/Surgeon |
$247,536 |
| Oral and maxillofacial surgeons |
$211,766 |
| Lawyer |
$153,923 |
| Sales manager |
$135,903 |
| Financial services sales agents |
$130,385 |
| Financial managers |
$128,910 |
| Dentist |
$122,883 |
| Financial advisor |
$122,462 |
| Natural sciences managers |
$116,504 |
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