The Highest Paying Jobs Without A College Degree

While finding a job that you enjoy with great people is important, let's face it, for a lot of people the most important thing about a gig is the paycheck. And while in a lot of cases, a college degree is required to make the big bucks, there are some jobs where that’s just not the case.

  • 24/7 Wall Street has just come out with their list of the Highest Paying Jobs without a College Degree.
  • Workers in some of these jobs can make more than $70,000 a year on average.
  • Many of them may be physically demanding, and come with a high degree of occupational hazards.
  • Topping the list is transportation, storage, and distribution managers.
  • They make an average annual salary of $103,320 a year, and employment is expected to increase 5.6% in the next eight years. 

The Highest Paying Jobs Without A College Degree

  1. Transportation, storage, and distribution managers
  2. Commercial pilot
  3. Nuclear power reactor operators
  4. First-line supervisors of police and detectives
  5. Athletes and sports competitors
  6. Power distributors and dispatchers
  7. Captains, mates, and pilots of water vessels
  8. First-line supervisors of non-retail sales workers
  9. Detectives and criminal investigators
  10. Gambling managers

Source:USA Today


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