{"id":1578,"date":"2008-05-19T09:00:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T14:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/the-best-paying-job\/"},"modified":"2008-05-19T08:56:37","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T13:56:37","slug":"the-best-paying-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/05\/the-best-paying-job\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best-Paying Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anesthesiologists.\u00a0 From Forbes.com’s America’s Best- And Worst-Paying Jobs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

…the mean annual salary for America’s 31,030 anesthesiologists is $192,780, up 4.6% from a year earlier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Not surprisingly, the top 9 jobs are all in the medical field (surgeon, orthodontists, etc.).<\/p>\n
Oh yes, and the bottom end of the scale:<\/p>\n
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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I am proud to say that I was a dishwasher in high school.\u00a0 Technically, we called it a “dishlicker” and we were at the lowest end of the totem pole.\u00a0 That is the type of job that should be on Dirty Jobs.\u00a0 I can’t describe the funk that permeated my clothes.\u00a0 Despite my mom’s extreme laundry efforts, she could not remove the odor.<\/p>\n
Nasty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Anesthesiologists.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Technically, we called it a “dishlicker” and we were at the lowest end of the totem pole.\u00a0 That is the type of job that… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,5],"tags":[673,672,674,675],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-ps","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}