Anesthesiologists.  From Forbes.com’s America’s Best- And Worst-Paying Jobs:

…the mean annual salary for America’s 31,030 anesthesiologists is $192,780, up 4.6% from a year earlier.

Not surprisingly, the top 9 jobs are all in the medical field (surgeon, orthodontists, etc.).

Oh yes, and the bottom end of the scale:

The lowest paid of all? People who cook, prepare and serve in fast-food joints, followed by dishwashers, busboys and the folks who shampoo your hair.

I am proud to say that I was a dishwasher in high school.  Technically, we called it a “dishlicker” and we were at the lowest end of the totem pole.  That is the type of job that should be on Dirty Jobs.  I can’t describe the funk that permeated my clothes.  Despite my mom’s extreme laundry efforts, she could not remove the odor.

Nasty.

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