16 Replies to “10 Surprising Six-Figure Jobs”

  1. I don’t believe these figures. Some (makeup for TV) are way too low.
    In any event, if you want to earn a lot of money, try the oil patch.

  2. They left out First Nations Band Chief.
    Thanks folks, I’ll be here all week.

  4. Ho hum, just about ANYBODY working for the Ontario government makes over 100k. And with gold-plated pensions to boot! I recall my MBA-school days, back in 1979, when people thought you were hot spit if you were “earning your age,” i.e., making 50k/yr at age 50, risible as that may seem today.

  6. Broadcast news analyst is one of the highest paid on the list. WTF. I can speculate about what might happen next and how we’re still waiting for confirmation no problem.

  8. You can’t argue with an anti-Semite. Its a psychiatric disorder. No amount of logic or reason works for these people. Its like trying to talk a person who thinks their Genghis Khan, into thinking there not in the middle ages.
    These folks burn with an aberrant phobia.
    To think 18 million Jews control 5 billion or more people is flaming insane.

  9. Between my 13-year stint with IBM and my current job (in IT), I washed pots in a Suncor camp north of Fort Mac for 6 months (and then worked as a 911 operator for the RCMP for a year). It was a job, 3 weeks there and 1 week back, and quite frankly I needed to money to pay off debts/keep the house. Bad purchasing decisions = ugh. My own fault.
    Yep, Union Job. Didn’t really care for that, but…yeah. Six figure income from washing pots. Talking to some of the younger tradesmen up there (25-ish) who admit that “Yeah, I only have my truck, otherwise I’m broke” makes me shake my head – then again, many of them were alcoholics or addicts of some type. The ones that had their heads screwed on straight…well, after working for several years they wouldn’t have to go back.
    I can’t tell younger kids enough to go into the trades if they’re at all interested.

  10. Started out as a labourer at 23 in the construction industry…working on Little Ralphs Train in Calgary – apprenticed as a Welder, took college course in Welding Engineering, certified as Level II Welding Inspector with a registration # below 2000….there are now some 14,500 in the game (mostly level I’s though)
    Most of the guys I know in my business are Level II’s & Self Employed contractors doing well over 275k annually and some who are workaholics are close to 400k annually. All Camp jobs and many can’t handle that…but the monetary rewards are simply excellent.
    It’s even better for those working Directly for an Oil Company as a QA API Pressure Integrity person…similar coin and great shifts.
    There is good money out there…and the trades is a good path that can lead to greater things. Takes time, but well worth it in the end.

  11. If you want to make good money and have control of your life, be self-employed in the trades. Even the worst day in the trades is better than being some office dweeb in a cubicle with a mountain of student loan debt on your back.

  12. Yeah, Webley, they left out Ontario government jobs, but they were talking about the most surprising 6 figure jobs. That isn’t surprising.

  13. I know truck drivers and equipment operators making well in excess of $200,000 in the oil patch. I don’t have the drive any more, but if I was 20 years younger I’d be there too.

  14. Us ‘office dweebs’ do well too. /grin
    If I had to do it over again? Yeah, trades. Instrumentation, for me.

  15. “The top 10 percent of earners in the occupations that appear here make $100,000 a year or more.”
    Key word for the makeup artists and writers: top 10%.
    Things do get rather skewed in those professions compared to trades where the mean is much closer to the 100K given; it’s a bit like in the music industry where certainly the top 10% of record producers earn a ton, but most guys calling themselves “producers” still work at Starbucks.
    I wonder if they’re pulling from everyone calling themselves a writer or a makeup artist or just the ones who do it full-time and have no other income source, because certainly by the time you manage to quit your day job in most of the creative fields you’re already way ahead of the pack.

  16. Steakman – this is the track my 28 year old son is on. We doubted him at times but i am now seeing the brilliance in his plan. The work is hard and camp jobs are not for everyone and he has been to some rather remote areas. He emerges from the bush to take some classes and then goes back. I have forwarded your comment to him.

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