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.