The 6 highest-paying medical jobs in America in 2017

Becoming a doctor takes years of schooling and training, so it's not surprising the job pays so well.

But as a new report from job site Glassdoor shows, physicians aren't the only people in the medical field who are paid well.

Based on salary reports shared by employees with these jobs on Glassdoor over the past year, here are the six highest-paying healthcare jobs in the US, the current number of job openings, and what these workers do every day: