about this a lot and think it s our role to steer people in the direction of jobs that are available to them. you focused on jobs you don t need a four-year college degree for. right, because you ll hear over and over people say if you want to be successful you need this job that pays $190,000 a year and take six more years of training and not everyone wants to be an anesthesiologist or or emergency room physician or mechanical engineer so we put together the list about the really good pay, but no degree. now, i want to be clear, a lot of these are ladder jobs so it means you have to keep out with the training and probably have to do continuing education but doesn t take a four-year degree. radiation therapist, median pay, 77 grand. the top, top earners are well over six figures. construction superintendent, a general sales manager, look, if you can sell it and you are good, i mean, if you can make a living in sales and become a
sales manager, you can do well. fashion designer, also on this list, although i would probably say there aren t a lot of fashion designer jobs to be going for. you need to have some very specific skills for that too that you don t learn in school. that is s absolutely true. senior charge nurse and health care jobs are on this. there are lots of different jobs in nursing that take an associate s degree. two years or maybe you re adding up the education over the course of the career but in nursing there are ladder jobs, as well. icu, registered nurse, semiconductor field service engineer, that s if you re a technical person and work with your hands, 71 grand. these are median pay. i mean, you re probably midcareer making money like this but areas where you can match your skills without necessarily matching $40,000 a student loan the radiation therapist, they do require some training. you do have to go you got to take courses. some of them don t and, again, i mean i think we nee
half make more and half make less. now that being said, i have to give that caveat, it is always better to get the degree, but there are places in the economy that reward experience, talent, ambition very well and you don t need a four-year degree. among them in the service and trade sector, some pretty lucrative career. remember ladder jobs? some of these are ladder jobs. a construction superintendent. someone who shines on the construction site and begins to do well and has at least eight years experience moves up the pay. by the time at the top of the field, $114 grabbed. supermarket store managers, $71,000 median pay there. manager of detectives of police also have a very good living. this is on the job-training. they work their way pup a hotel executive chef job. $63,000 is the median pay.
can makes six figures and don t necessarily need a college degree. look, this is the most dynamic market in the world, right as we re starting to talk on the cusp of job creation, there s important information for. you i want to be clear, the census department, these numbers don t lie, if you have a college degree, on average, your going to make about $1 million more than over the course of your lifetime than someone who doesn t graduate from high school. half of people make more than this, half make less than $23,000. this son-in-law high school, 33 grand. take a look at a bachelors degree. 53,000. for an advanced, 68,000. there are places where you can make serious money in the trades. service and trade jobs. construction superintendent, median pay is 77,000. supermarket manager.
a year. there are, though, fantastic job opportunities and services in the trades for people who are experienced, they stick on the job, they do a lot of on-the-job training. even do continuing education. look at the median pay, ali, for a construction superintendent or supermarket store manager or a police manager, somebody managing detective that s all on the job training in that law enforcement field. and then look at the top pay. ali, this is off of payscale.com. they ran these numbers for me. i asked about what are the top-paying jobs. these are the top ten 10%. if you have the hustle and ambition and smarts and not the four-year degree, a master plumber, that s a ladder job. call those ladder jobs meaning you start someone and go higher. and you can even own your own business in this way. health care jobs we talked about this. talked about these yesterday. that s a whole second category. show us those. four-year no need for a four-year degree for these health care jobs.