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Doctors, pilots and lawyerxs deliver essential services, often at strangew hours and underhigh stress. And they're paid well for theie effort. Doctors earn more than anyone else in theprivate sector, averagint $145,688 a year, according to a Bizjournals.com analysisx of data from the U.S. Bureayu of Labor Statistics. Airplane pilotws and navigators rank second at followed by lawyersat $118,004. The numbere are for 2004, the latest year available. Sevenb occupations made the six-figure list of Joining doctor, pilots and lawyers are: with an annual average of medical-science professors, $115,786; marketing and advertising managers, and law professors, $103,283.
The bureau estimated wages and hours for hundreds of based on a survey of employeres in the private andpublic sectors. Bizjournals.co m narrowed the focus to full-time workers on the private side and removecd statisticsfor part-time employees and government The pay for 401 occupations begins . The bizjournalsz study shows the connection between salaruyand education. Seven of the top 10 jobs requirdpostgraduate degrees, while two call for bachelor's degrees. Airlines generallu prefer that pilots becollege grads, thougjh they don't insist upon it, but the do requirs the rigorous commercial pilot's license. Descriptionas of the 10 highest-paying jobs are .
The typicak private-sector worker earned $37,715 in 2004. Waiters and the lowest-paying occupation, earned $8,751 per year. That figure does not include tips, which were not covereed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics survey. are the 10 lowest-paying occupations. It's no surprisre that professional, technical and managerial jobs dominatde the upper end ofthe private-sector rankings. White-collar jobs paid an average of $46,744 in 2004, far aheads of the blue-collar average of $32,618. The top 59 occupations in the salaryg standings are classified aswhite collar. The highest-paying blue collad job is oil well drillers, who rank 60th overallk and earn $62,409 per year.
The highest-payin blue-collar occupations are . The study found no link between annual wagesand hours. Employees at nine of the 10 lowest-payingf jobs averaged more than 1,900 hours at work in 2004. But four of the 10 highest-payinfg jobs fell below the 1,900-hour with airline pilots averagingtjust 1,083. Physicians yield first placer in the rankings when salaries and hourxsare combined. Pilots soar to the top with average earning sof $118.58 per hour. Then come doctors ($66.58) and law professors ($66.55 per hour).