Top 20 best paid jobs outside banking

28 January 2009

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Wondering what to do while you wait for investment banks to rise from the ashes? Courtesy of the UK Office of National Statistics, here are the mean salaries for the 20 best paying jobs for men working full time in the UK during 2008.

1. Director/chief executive of a major organization: 136k

2. Corporate managers and 'senior officials': 110k

3. Medical practitioners: 80k

4. Health professionals: 74k

5. Aircraft pilots and flight engineers: 74k

6. Financial managers and chartered secretaries: 70k

7. Senior officials in national government: 68k

8. Managers in mining and energy: 65k

9. Air traffic controllers: 64k

10. Dental practitioners: 62k

11. Solicitors, lawyers, judges and coroners: 60k

12. Personnel, training and industrial relations managers: 60k

13. Legal professionals: 59k

14. Functional managers: 57k

15. Police officers (inspector and above): 56k

16. Purchasing managers: 53k

17. Marketing and sales managers: 53k

18. Senior officials in local government: 53k

19. Legal professionals n.e.c.*: 52k

20. Pharmacy managers: 52k

*Let us know if you know what a legal professional n.e.c. actually does.

AUTHORSarah Butcher

Global Editor

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GBLondon
7 July 2009
Most of these seem under estimated to me - especially the MD/CEO and solicitor ones. I work in VC and most of our FDs and MDs are on 90k to 120k and have equity as well. The average London solicitor is on a lot more than 60k once qualified too.
It's all well and good focusing on headline salary but you should look at hours worked too. If you can get 90k for working 8am to 6pm with every weekend free is it really worth all your evenings and weekends to earn and extra 50k...?
As usual from efinancial a rather shallow article that assumes 'banking is best' and doesn't encourage people to follow their interests rather than s.
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david.snell
30 January 2009
Sorry to have to inform you, but you get nothing free in the military. The accommodation (married quarter) is not free, neither is the batman or driver, the food in the mess and in your quarters are not subsidised, as for uniform the first issue of combat gear is free but the rest you have to pay for. Schooling is subsidised if you want to make sure your child's schooling is not disrupted by constant moves. If you don,t mind disturbing their education, there are local military schools if based outside the UK. Yes we pay tax and NI.
For all this you have to be prepared to put your life on the line and also be prepared to do some ugly thing to your fellow man. If Wizard is so smug and sure of himself, maybe he would like to come out to play with us in the Helmand
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LoadsAMoney
29 January 2009
Exactly, how pathetic is the vitriol from some about what people in the city earn, when they quite easily overlook the inbred goons earning 50-100k A WEEK in the Premiership for doing 14 hours training (I do that in the gym each week anyway).
But, hey, it's ok that footballers earn such stupid wages, because we all love football and it's cool to talk about. But bankers, they're the scum of the earth because they work with money, which we all envy, and no-one understands what they do anyway.
Perhaps people would give the bankers some more love if they weren't so blatently brash with "normal" people.
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Nikki
29 January 2009
They forgot to mention professional footballers, and of course lapdancers.
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hooray
29 January 2009
Sarah, I think it's about time you asked Herny to write a column.
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