There are several high-paying jobs that can potentially earn you up $400 or more per hour, depending on your skill level, experience, and location. Some examples of such high-paying jobs include:
Medical Specialist: Certain medical specialists such as anesthesiologists, surgeons, or specialized consultants can earn several hundred dollars per hour.
Legal Consultant: Experienced lawyers or legal consultants can charge high hourly rates for their services, especially in specialized areas of law.
Financial Advisor: High-level financial advisors who work with wealthy clients or institutions can earn significant hourly rates for their expertise.
Software Developer/Consultant: Skilled software developers or consultants with expertise in high-demand technologies or specialized areas can command high hourly rates.
Management Consultant: Experienced management consultants who work with top companies or provide specialized services can earn high hourly fees.
Executive Coach: Executive coaches who work with high-level executives or corporations can charge high hourly rates for their services.
Professional Speaker: Renowned speakers or experts in specific fields can earn substantial fees for speaking engagements or workshops.
Airline Pilot: Some senior airline pilots working for major airlines can earn high hourly rates, especially for long-haul international flights.
Actuary: Experienced actuaries who work in specialized areas such as risk management or insurance can earn high hourly rates for their expertise.
Entrepreneur/Founder: Successful entrepreneurs or founders who have built profitable businesses may effectively be earning a high hourly rate based on the value of their company and their time commitment.
It’s important to note that while these jobs have the potential to earn $400 or more per hour, actual earnings can vary based on factors such as experience, location, demand for services, and individual negotiation skills.
How can I earn 300k a year in the US as a software developer?
The leveling varies a little company by company, but the most common system starts software engineers at L3 (for reasons that aren’t worth going into). To give a rough ballpark, L4 is typically someone with 1–4 years of experience, or someone with a PhD. L5 comes with the title of Senior Software Engineer and is typically someone with around 5+ years of experience (though I’ve heard of it happening in as little as 2).
At most companies, it is expected that if you are continually meeting expectations, you will eventually reach L5 (though Google has recently lowered this expectation to L4). The levels keep going, how high depends on the company; at Google it definitely goes to at least L10, there may be 1 or 2 L11s, not sure. At smaller companies it may only go to L7 or L8. But going higher than L5 requires a much higher degree of performance and a wider ranging skillset (including the ability to play some politics); the higher levels are literally executives in the company.
At major companies like Google, FB, Amazon, Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, etc in major tech hub cities like San Francisco, New York, and Seattle, you may break $300k/year at L4 (inclusive of salary, stock, and bonus). You will all but certainly be above (and possibly well past it) at L5.
I’m not sure why some other commenters are making this out like it’s madness. One commenter claims its basically impossible and that the closest pay he can find is around $250k for people with more than a decade of experience. Another says you’d have to be an independent consultant who can justify billing out at that rate. I don’t mean to underplay the difficulty of getting a job at a top-tier tech company in a tech hub city (not the only jobs that pay this high but probably the most common), it’s not a walk in the park. But there must be several thousand L5s at Google alone making that much (the company employs nearly 100k people, around half are engineers, I don’t know how the levels and locations break down but a lot are definitely at HQ in the Bay Area), and many more at the other couple dozen top-tier tech companies (and financial companies…they often pay a lot too). Not to mention the thousands of additional L3s and L4s that (if they’re not already making that much) are ideally place to move up into those L5 positions. It’s hardly unheard of.
What kind of jobs pay $300,000 or more?
- High-level executives at big companies can make this and potentially much, much more.
- Lawyers who become partners can make much more than this. If they are equity partners, many times this amount.
- Portfolio managers and stockbrokers can make more than this.
- Many management jobs in banking can easily exceed $300k.
- Medical specialists can make more than this.
- Middle managers in high-paying industries like oil & gas or software can make this.
- Senior geoscientists and geophysicists in oil & gas can make this.
- Even software engineers can make this much in certain places.
- Freelance contractors in technical jobs can make this.
All of this is assuming we’re talking about normal jobs in high-income countries. There are sports and movie stars and other various people who make this in non-standard occupations.
How can one get a job that pays more than $100,000?
In my culture, life is unfair and unpredictable just because you dont have education or knowledge, having the right connections and knowing who to befriends with can get you far in life…
Well, the most general way to get that job you just asked is through getting the right education, meaning that you study the right courses in college then apply for jobs, working from the ground up all the way to the top positions…
However, a cheat code is to make connection with the person who is in charge of a successful company.