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Most people probably aspired at one time or another to have a fancy job. No one grows up hoping to have some obscure title that makes very little sense and pays even less. However, as Business Insider has discovered, even some of the sexiest jobs don’t pay as much as you would think.
For example, the average pay for a biomedical engineer is $93,960. Sure, that sounds like a lot, but when you factor in how much schooling you have to go through in order to even enter the field, it seems a little less fair. I actually know a couple of biomedical engineers and they’re literally the smartest people I’ve ever met. It’s strange that they make less than some of my more moronic friends who drank their way through law school.
Optometrist
Average pay: $111,640
Biomedical Engineer
Average pay: $93,960
Chemist
Average pay: $77,740
Budget Analyst
Average pay: $72,560
Credit Analyst
Average pay: $72,590
Architect
Average pay: $71,790
Psychologist
Average pay: $74,310
Accountant
Average pay: $72,500
Math Professor
Average pay: $74,210
Zoologist
Average pay: $62,610
Some jobs on the list fall into the same category — over-educated and underpaid, like chemists, architects, and psychiatrists. Others are simply very specific jobs that require a certain skill set, like legislators and embalmers (insert dead bodies joke here). It may be hard to drum up the will to feel sympathy for people making upwards of $80k, but the list is interesting nonetheless.
[via Business Insider]
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Surprisingly low? How much do people think optometrists make?
There’s a big difference between psychiatrists and psychologists. Namely, psychiatrists are MDs that can prescribe narcotics and have usually completed a fellowship after medical school and residency. They also earn well into six figures. Psychologists have a generally useless four year degree and are normally glorified counselors or academic researchers. I’d say that mid-70s for that type of work is pretty good.
Architects are definitely over-educated and underpaid. After 6 years of school and 3 years working, I switched from architecture to construction management and nearly doubled my salary and have fewer hours. Don’t be architects, kids.
No offense to your former career choice, but architects are pretty much just artists (mostly useless). You want job security designing structures? Become a civil engineer.
I am an architecture student, currently miserable in architecture school. I thought if I stuck through it I would like it better, but 3 years later, I still don’t like it. I don’t like the idea of being a glorified artist doing work that doesn’t matter in a world full of leaders and engineers actually doing things. I hate the long hours, the excessive amount of stress for stupid decisions, and the little pay and low glass ceiling. I definitely want to get out. What would you recommend? What avenues out of the profession can I take? I am thinking of getting an MBA or engineering degree or both when I graduate from the hell hole degree I chose.
You know a biomedical engineer, just has a bachelor degree right? 90k for a four year program is really good. I took four year and got a mechanical engineering degree and I only make 65k
These are midcareer salaries, not entry level.
Anything in finance with the word “analyst” behind it is pretty close to entry-level.
80k living in a city doesn’t chalk up to much after student loans and rent.
That stock photo for chemists is priceless. I know an undergraduate lab when I see one. Also, there are many different types of chemists. An electrochemist cannot be swapped with an analytical chemist and more than an orthopedic surgeon can be swapped with a cardiac surgeon.
Every single one of those salaries is higher than my salary as a young lawyer.
Feel you, bro.
Of course, my student loan debt is higher than ll of those salaries, too.