Top-paying jobs for women

strippers is #1 paying job for woman

This article would like to highlight employment fields where there is less sex-based disparity in wages, and it does that some. But the way Yahoo! is using it makes it come off like a "10 Steps to a Flatter Stomach" guideline. I really hope women don't think to themselves "well, AS A WOMAN, what's my best chance of making a decent living?" ...because the highest paying job available for a man is the highest paying job available for anyone. Wanna be a trillionaire, financier oil magnate? Pursue your ruthless business agenda like any other rich entrepreneur and you'll be there.

...and I'm not hatin'. I can't believe there was ever an idea other than equal pay for equal work. It just makes sense. Why would you pay someone else less just because you can? That's evil.

I had a job I loved for 30 years. They closed my school and pretty
much told us we were on our own. I would like to work again but at
60 and with the job market there doesn't seem to be much out there.
It was my choice to work at a Catholic school and believe me I loved
it, but now I am financially unprepared. Where did the time go.

Do they have any statistics on women Airline Pilots salary?

Why is it that we have Pharamacists making more money than female physicians and surgeons?? handing out drugs makes more money than treating people after having to go to school forever, that sucks

I wish I was Asian!

hi! i really love my work today, but how if the situation don't want me to work...... hu hu hu hu hu....

Stats are all fake!! You can make a pie chart say what ever you want it to say. I am a construction worker and when work was busy we could pull 2k a week. Not once in a while but for several years, week after week! Dont believe what they tell you and set the rules for what you want to do and make. The potential is there, you have to make it happen.

In reference to DUBS input.....
I thought the median and weekly earnings by sex/race (Table 5) was quite interesting. Hispanics were the lowest paid with Asians being the highest. Whites and Blacks falling in the middle. Can't help but feel that education and work ethics play a big role in this. Would love to see a study on this.

Come on everybody, what is the promblem. Are we so inexperienced in the knowledge of fairness in the marketplace when it comes to men verses women. It is by design. Men are the "head" remember, whatever the case. Women who have gotten ahead of the game knew that long ago and devised a plan to get ahead of the game, like Oprah and many more. They didnt complain, they used their heads to climb the market. I am sure they had no intentions of getting ahead of men, because if they had thought of it constantly, they wouldn't have made it. They concentrated on their goals and they made it. Not by chance, but by design. When it comes to women pharamacists, believe me, they deserve the money they make. Their constantly standing on their feet all day, answer numerous & numerous of questions both in person and by telephone. They have to go be alert constantly so they want give out the wrong medication. They sometime make up medicine for ones illness. They have to know which medicine the insurance will pay for and which ones not. They do the billing and keeping proper records. Stock supplies, label everything. Update their education in their field of study, pay for more certifications. Go to seminars, seminars, certifications, licensing, etcc.c.c.c.c.c.My pharmacists knows more about the meds I take than my doctor. I've asked my doctors about certain kinds of meds and when I got home, I called the pharamacists and what the doctor stated was wrong. So, I researched it on Medic.com and to my surprise, the doc was wrong. Remember, the pharmacists is a doctor, all he/she needs is another 2 years of clinicals to be a doctor. And they don't have to be Board Certified to be a doctor either. Like Dr.Murray in the Michael Jackson case.When one apply for a position, the employer know who's the smartest anyway. But because it is by design, they hire someone else and pay them less. Not every employer is more educated or intelligent than the ones which they employee. They got lucky or it's who they knew to get them the position they got. Remember, most of the employers are not the smartest nor more educated, the but they may be more intelligent, this is why they employee ones to make them rich by working them half to death. Remember they come up with a plan and they execute it to the best of their ability. The moral of the story is "devise you a plan" and execute; you're be ahead of the game too.

Here is the link to the statistics
http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/Qf-ESWM08.htm

EXCERPT:

OCCUPATIONS-- In 2008, for women who were full-time, wage and salary workers, the ten most prevalent occupations were:

Secretaries and administrative assistants, 3,168,000
Registered nurses, 2,548,000
Elementary and middle school teachers, 2,403,000
Cashiers, 2,287,000
Retail salespersons, 1,783,000
Nursing, psychiatric, and home health aides, 1,675,000
First-line supervisors/managers of retail sales workers, 1,505,000
Waiters and waitresses, 1,471,000
Receptionists and information clerks, 1,323,000
Bookkeeping, accounting, and auditing clerks, 1,311,000

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Among women who were full-time wage and salary workers, here were the ten occupations with highest median weekly earnings in 2008.

Pharmacists, $1,647
Chief executives, $1,603
Lawyers, $1,509
Computer software engineers, $1,351
Computer and information systems managers, $1,260
Physicians and surgeons, $1,230
Management analysts, $1,139
Human resource managers, $1,137
Speech-language pathologists, $1,124
Computer scientists and systems analysts, $1,082
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Women accounted for 51 percent of persons employed in the high-paying management, professional, and related occupations category.

Women continue to comprise the larger share of workers in these occupational categories: sales and office occupations, 63 percent; and service occupations, 57 percent;

Only 4 percent of all natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations and 22 percent of production, transportation, and material moving occupations were held by women.

Women made up 45 percent of workers in the public administration industry – federal, state, and local government workers.

Self-employed workers: 9.2 million—3.5 million women; and 5.7 million men.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment and Earnings, Annual Averages 2008.

EARNINGS— Money wage or salary income, net income from non-farm self-employment, and net income from farm self-employment. For a more detailed explanation of earnings, please view the Census Bureau’s definition at http://www.census.gov/population/www/cps/cpsdef.html.

Median weekly earnings for full-time wage and salary workers in 2008: women, $638; and men, $798.

Overall, women earned 80 percent of what men earned when comparing median weekly earnings of all full-time wage and salary workers.

Table 5
Median Weekly Earnings, by sex and race, 2008


White women: $654
White men: $825

Black women: $554
Black men: $620

Hispanic women: $501
Hispanic men: $559

Asian women: $753
Asian men: $966

Median yearly earnings for full-time year-round workers was $ 35,102 for women; $45,113 for men and in 2007.
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These statistics are mostly on target but again the methods of obtaining them are questionable like most statistics. There is always that grey area of "HOW did you obtain these?"

Currently the Women's Bureau is going through some assessment issues(2005 assessment) in regards to the programs results...alas what federal program isn't.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/expectmore/summary/10003906.2005.html

Here's the detailed assessment
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/expectmore/detail/10003906.2005.html#questions

This is pretty much like most federal programs where we shovel out money for and even though the design and management of them are rated fairly good, the results and accountability....well you'll see for yourselves.

im in pharmacy school right now, almost done, and let me tell you, its not easy! and in some instances pharmacists have to know more then doctors, medicine wise like side effects. and we have to deal with cranky customers that we cant even turn away like doctors do. so i think its fair that we earn all the money we make.

Im going inot pharmacy, they get paid more because most people these days go the the pharmacist before going to the doctor. Healthcare these days is just a joke and way to expensive.

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I`m a male nurse and I make less than my female co-workers. So please shut up about the wage disparities along gender lines. Also, every report that looks beyond the numbers determines that the discrepancies between male and female wages aren`t biased, but sociological.

Great information!

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As a Virtual Assistant working from home, I see available jobs/careers in many of the above mentioned fields on a routine basis. Credible, reputable companies/employers are looking for experienced candidates to telecommute and/or work from home!

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I've been a Speech Pathologist for over 20 years - I find it hard to believe that I am among the highest paid workers in the US. Your salary for Speech Paths is right on, though I question your other data. As for 50% of the workforce being female or male-- the only male Speech Paths I have ever worked with were professors. The actual therapists have all been female.

Thanks for the update it was very informative.

Glen Gabbard

Often these articles state highest paying jobs, yet I never see "nursing" listed. Baffles me because if you become a RN in Connecticut, trust me, you will make more than all of these incomes listed. Not bad for a "two-year" degree. Cmon people go to school for nursing, its a no brainer, theres always the need.

I'm a speech pathologist, been working for 8 years, work 9 months a year and make 65,000 (+ benefits), or so depending on the number of hours. Speech paths are in high demand across the nation. Most places require a masters degree and it's hard to get admitted into grad school, clinicals are tough, but if you can make it, it's a great field. I love that the few males I've worked with don't make more than me for the same work!! The field is varied, the settings you can work in include schools, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, rehab, private practice, early intervention...etc....check it out if you're in a rut and want a challenge, want to be in a helping profession and want job security.