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Personal Care Aides 
Average Salary:
$19,730
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Assist the elderly, convalescents, or persons with disabilities with daily living activities at the person's home or in a care facility. Duties performed at a place of residence may include keeping house (making beds, doing laundry, washing dishes) and preparing meals. May provide assistance at non-residential care facilities. May advise families, the elderly, convalescents, and persons with disabilities regarding such things as nutrition, cleanliness, and household activities.
Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food
Average Salary:
$18,230
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Perform duties which combine preparing and serving food and nonalcoholic beverages.
General and Operations Managers 
Average Salary:
$95,150
Most Common Degree:
Associate's Degree
Plan, direct, or coordinate the operations of public or private sector organizations. Duties and responsibilities include formulating policies, managing daily operations, and planning the use of materials and human resources, but are too diverse and general in nature to be classified in any one functional area of management or administration, such as personnel, purchasing, or administrative services.
Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
Average Salary:
$31,870
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Perform routine clerical and administrative functions such as drafting correspondence, scheduling appointments, organizing and maintaining paper and electronic files, or providing information to callers.
Medical Assistants
Average Salary:
$29,100
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Perform administrative and certain clinical duties under the direction of a physician. Administrative duties may include scheduling appointments, maintaining medical records, billing, and coding information for insurance purposes. Clinical duties may include taking and recording vital signs and medical histories, preparing patients for examination, drawing blood, and administering medications as directed by physician.
Home Health Aides
Average Salary:
$20,610
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Provide routine individualized healthcare such as changing bandages and dressing wounds, and applying topical medications to the elderly, convalescents, or persons with disabilities at the patient's home or in a care facility. Monitor or report changes in health status. May also provide personal care such as bathing, dressing, and grooming of patient.
Medical Secretaries
Average Salary:
$31,060
Most Common Degree:
Work Experience Only
Perform secretarial duties using specific knowledge of medical terminology and hospital, clinic, or laboratory procedures. Duties may include scheduling appointments, billing patients, and compiling and recording medical charts, reports, and correspondence.
Physicians and Surgeons, All Other
Average Salary:
Over $166,400
Most Common Degree:
Not Available
All physicians and surgeons not listed separately.
Allergists and Immunologists
Average Salary:
Over $166,400
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent allergic diseases and disease processes affecting the immune system.
Dermatologists
Average Salary:
Over $166,400
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent diseases or other conditions of the skin.
Hospitalists
Average Salary:
Over $166,400
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Provide inpatient care predominantly in settings such as medical wards, acute care units, intensive care units, rehabilitation centers, or emergency rooms. Manage and coordinate patient care throughout treatment.
Neurologists
Average Salary:
Over $166,400
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent diseases and disorders of the nervous system.
Nuclear Medicine Physicians
Average Salary:
Over $166,400
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Diagnose and treat diseases using radioactive materials and techniques. May monitor radionuclide preparation, administration, and disposition.
Ophthalmologists
Average Salary:
Over $166,400
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent diseases and injuries of the eyes and related structures.
Pathologists
Average Salary:
Over $166,400
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Diagnose presence and stage of diseases using laboratory techniques and patient specimens. Study the nature, cause, and development of diseases. May perform autopsies.
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Physicians
Average Salary:
Over $166,400
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Diagnose and treat disorders requiring physiotherapy to provide physical, mental, and occupational rehabilitation.
Preventive Medicine Physicians
Average Salary:
Over $166,400
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Apply knowledge of general preventive medicine and public health issues to promote health care to groups or individuals, and aid in the prevention or reduction of risk of disease, injury, disability, or death. May practice population-based medicine or diagnose and treat patients in the context of clinical health promotion and disease prevention.
Radiologists
Average Salary:
Over $166,400
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Examine and diagnose disorders and diseases using x-rays and radioactive materials. May treat patients.
Sports Medicine Physicians
Average Salary:
Over $166,400
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent injuries that occur during sporting events, athletic training, and physical activities.
Urologists
Average Salary:
Over $166,400
Most Common Degree:
Advanced Degree
Diagnose, treat, and help prevent benign and malignant medical and surgical disorders of the genitourinary system and the renal glands.