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First job out of college with a BA/BS making 100K?
That's pretty rare
With STEM you can do well. I had a cousin who recently finished her engineering degree (BS) and her first job was in Indianapolis making 60K as a chemical engineer. I'd say that's pretty good. 100K is rare, even for new undergrads at Google, Facebook, etc. I did statistics and it took me five year to break 100K in a medium COL area
Physician is above this But as a starting salary coming out of residency or fellowship, depending on where in the US, it's 150k+. Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistant can make this with a few years experience and depending on specialty.
If you want a big salary offer right out of school, you have to be brilliant in the field that you study. Write ground breaking thesis. Get top class honors at a prestigious school. Get a degree is a field that actually has paying jobs.
A slump with a C average at a cheap junior college, maybe not so much.
I have known 2 different people who got really high paying advertising or film jobs because of stunningly creative films they put onto Youtube. Exceptionally brilliant and creative people often get good job offers.
Learn to sell. No degree required and you can choose your income.
Not true. Top sales jobs in tech, big pharma, etc generally require an degree with strong technical or STEM skills. I work in tech as a machine learning engineer and our sales team is all very competent and highly educated folks who know statistics and most have stem degrees. They do make $$$$
IT Security. CISSP-certified people make over $100K.
There's a Cisco certification with multiple, complicated tests that only a few hundred people in the world have. I don't know what it is, but I remember hearing about someone whose father had it. The story was that when he got it, he immediately received multiple, competing job offers well over $100K.
Military officer. But its not guaranteed. Specifically, you have to get stationed at the right location in order to make the math work (i.e. a location with a relatively high housing allowance and/or COLA).
lots of people answering the question, what type of jobs have 100k salaries and seem to be ignoring the 'starting' part.
Yes, if you graduate from Stanford, or CMU in CS and land a job in the valley it is possible to start at right around $100k/yr, but that is one of the most expensive places to live in the US and they are looking for the best of the best. Just to put it in perspective a $100k starting salary in the Valley has the equivalent purchasing power of roughly $55k in Kansas City, MO.
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But as a starting salary coming out of residency or fellowship, depending on where in the US, it's 150k+. Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistant can make this with a few years experience and depending on specialty.
