Top Seven Jobs That Can Make You A Millionaire (in the U.S.)

Although Anton suggested 15 top jobs, I have picked the top 7 jobs that can make you a millionaire in the U.S.:

Number 1: Plastic Surgeon & Specialized Doctors
Salary of plastic surgeons: $250,000 and up

Highest paid doctors: radiologists, cardiologist and orthopedic surgeons: Average $400,000 per year

Number 2: Corporate Lawyer
Salary: $200,000 and up

If you’re good, you can be a millionaire 5 years into your corporate job. All you need is to be productive for the corporation you work for.

Out of all the specializations the three most lucrative ones are: Mergers & Acquisitions, Intellectual Property & patent lawyers.

Number 3: Architect
Average salary: $100,000

Good architects earn over $250,000 per year.

Number 4: Pilots & Air Traffic Control
Average salary: $100,000
Average time to $1 Million: Less than 10 years

Pilots still get paid good money in an age where they no longer have to do that much.

A good pilot earns on average in excess of $300 per hour while an low paying pilot brings home over $200.

The big surprise was Air traffic controllers, who earn even more than pilots at an average of $130,000 per year.

Number 5: Cyber Security
Application Security Engineer: $250,000 per year

Everybody else: around $100,000 per year

Last year, the personal data of over 140 million Americans was stolen from a credit score company called Equifax. Names, addresses, social security numbers, banking information, everything you would need to steal someone’s identity.

Big tech companies would not recover after a breach like that so they’re paying really good money to anyone who can bulletproof their tech.

Number 6: Marketing managers
Average salary: $150,000
Chief Marketing Officer: Over $250,000

A great marketing executive can make or break a great company. Just look at the rise of Old Spice. The company was raised from the ashes through a smart marketing campaign. A 75 year old company, more than doubled its sales in a single year.

But marketing isn’t all just about advertising, it is about the way the product is designed, the way people perceive it, the way it fits in the market and how it differentiates from the competitors.

A typical Marketing director for companies like Pepsi or Coke earn ballpark of $250,000 dollars per year.

Number 7: Investment Banker
Average Salary: $200,000
Managing Director: At least $1,000,000 per year

The pay in this sector is not in the raw salary, but in the yearly bonus you get, sometimes larger than the salary itself.

Investment bankers help companies and governments with their financing needs. Just to give you a glimpse into the kind of salaries the best investment bankers earn per year:

Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan Chase — $28.2 million per year

James Gorman, Morgan Stanley — $22.5 million per year

Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs — $22.3 million per year

Reference:

15 jobs that can make you a millionaire, Emil Anton (https://www.alux.com/jobs-millionaire/)