More than half of the 25 highest-paying jobs this year are tech  

For the fourth consecutive year, the technology sector boasts the highest-paying jobs in the U.S., according to an annual report from Glassdoor, Bloomberg reports.  Thirteen of the 25 highest-paying jobs this year are in tech, up from 11 in 2017, according to the report, released today. Within the industry, enterprise architects, software development managers, software engineering managers and software architects received the highest pay, with the lowest average base salary well over $100,000.

The report gathered salary data from millions of employees, examined job titles that received a minimum of 100 salary reports over the past year, and used algorithms to estimate the median annual base pay. C-suite-level jobs were excluded from the report.

While tech jobs pay well across the board, the health-care industry offers the largest paychecks at the very top of the spectrum. Physicians topped the list of highest-paid employees in America, with a median base salary of $195,842. Pharmacy managers and pharmacists came in second and third, with a base pay of $146,412 and $127,120, respectively.
“Technology and health care are the two industries that are making the greatest impact on the economy,” said Sarah Stoddard, a community expert at Glassdoor, a job search website with a database of millions of company reviews, approval ratings, salary reports and interview reviews. “There’s a high demand but short supply for those roles, driving up salaries.”
While men are overrepresented in the country’s highest-paying jobs, the breakdown is different between tech and health care. Tech companies employ more than twice as many males as females, according to a 2017 LinkedIn report. Health care, on the other hand, has a slightly higher proportion of women. But there’s still a significant pay gap between medical specialties.
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