Health care and technology jobs dominate the list.
Employee-review site Glassdoor recently combed through salary reports shared by its users to compile its list of the highest-paying jobs in America. Here are its Top 25:
1. Physician ($187,876 median base salary; 7,700 job openings in early March)
2. Pharmacy manager ($149,064; 2,370)
3. Patent attorney ($139,272; 525)
4. Medical science liaison ($132,842; 391)
5. Pharmacist ($125,847;5,496)
6. Enterprise architect ($112,560; 1,320)
7. Physician assistant ($112,529; 13,547)
8. Applications development manager ($112,045; 516)
9. R&D manager ($111,905; 185)
10. Corporate controller ($110,855; 259)
11. Software engineering manager ($109,350; 1,011)
12. IT architect ($105,303; 250)
13. Software architect ($104,754; 1,147)
14. Nurse practitioner ($104,144; 12,566)
15. Solutions architect ($102,678; 4,174)
16. Data architect ($102,091; 1,438)
17. Actuary ($99,507; 463)
18. IT program manager ($98,883; 250)
19. UX manager ($98,353; 263)
20. Systems architect ($97,873; 1,167)
21. Plant manager ($97,189; 1,286)
22. Scrum Master ($95,167; 2,072)
23. Financial planning and analysis manager ($94,862; 501)
24. Nuclear engineer ($94,852; 155)
25. Attorney ($94,695; 1,010)
For methodology information, see this Glassdoor post.