What percentage tops wages of all workers in a given occupation?

You are looking for the percentage of top earnings in a given occupation.

This is often called the "top earnings share". Unfortunately, the data on this is not available for years prior to 1950, but it's possible to estimate what it was in the early 20th century. To get to the bottom line, you first need to find the top earner in a given occupation. Then the top earner is given a certain percentage of total earnings. In the US that is, as far as I know, about 40% for the highest earner in the top 1% of earners, about 30% for the top 2% of earners and 20% for the top 10%. If you don't have access to this kind of data, you can calculate this yourself using an average hourly wage for an occupation. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has tables with this kind of information. Since you are interested in the top 10%, you just need to look up a specific year.

What career pays the highest salary?

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Within the Career Choice forums, part of the Career Advice category; Hello everyone. I have been thinking about a career lately and I really would like to know what career . I have been thinking about a career lately and I really would like to know what career pays the highest salary. I have been searching for jobs, but I have not been successful in finding a job that pays what I really want to make. What kind of job will pay the most money?
Thank you. Re: What career pays the highest salary? Originally posted by njr3040: Your post has the answer. The job that pays the most money is one that is very difficult to find. So when I search for a job, I always look for one that is hard to find. The more difficult, the better.

Last edited by BillC. : 10-25-2009 at 11:17 PM.

Reason: add another word for emphasis. Originally posted by jh3d:

What is the website that tells you how much people make?

I was just wondering if you guys know of a website that will give you how much people earn per month on each website and where people are coming from.

You can take that and convert it to money with a conversion calculator.

Well the best place I have found for this is in the "Top Inlink" section (not sure what it's called) in Yahoo Answers. Just copy and paste the URL of the site in your search engine and you'll see how many people are linking to it. I think this might be a better way than having an ecom site like moola.

Thanks for the reply. I would be very interested in knowing how you came across that site. I'd be interested in any resources you may have that could help me get started.

Quote: Originally Posted by thekittycat. I agree with the idea of looking at the link-back data from yahoo and stuff but I think that may not be as accurate. I agree that the Yahoo Answers data is not reliable, so I use it only when it's available and there is enough data to make it usable. Originally Posted by dmccullers. For this kind of data, you'd need to look at several sites at once. As we've seen, Yahoo Answers is often unreliable. Originally Posted by rus. So basically I am asking for websites that are getting a lot of traffic and people are clicking through to them. I recommend that you contact each of the sites and ask them to give you their monthly traffic stats. If you want something that's free, a great place to start is www.alexa. It tells you who visits your website, how many people have come to it via Google, and how many clicks you've had on your link to the site.

That's a good idea to go to Alexa, I've looked at that site before. Not to be too nosy, but is it really possible to get access to the data from this site? Does it give it out to everybody who asks for it? I know there's a fee for the service they provide, but does it cost money to request the information from them?