We looked at the best-paying job for each state and Washington, DC, based on available averages.
For our analysis, Insider only looked at jobs with at least 1,000 employees in the state and for which BLS published a specific average annual wage estimate.
Insider omitted jobs without an employee estimate, without a specific average annual wage amount, or without any average annual wage data at all from our analysis.
The following map shows the highest-paying occupation for every state and Washington, DC, based on our methodology.
Most of the 22 states where this is the highest-paying job pay more than that, with a few paying over $300,000 on average.
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Organizations:
Service, Bureau of Labor Statistics, BLS, Physicians
Locations:
New York, Florida, California, Washington, DC, Tennessee, Louisiana, cardiologists, DC , New Jersey, North Carolina, Dakota, Vermont, North Dakota