Business Insider/Andy Kiersz, data from Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we found the highest-paying occupation in every state (plus DC).
- Doctors and surgeons top the ranking in most states.
Doctors make a lot of money across the United States.
Using data from the $4 program, we found the job in each state with the highest average annual salary as of May 2017, the latest available data. For our calculations, we considered jobs employing at least 1,000 people in the state for which the BLS reported annual mean salaries.
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As with our $4, medical jobs are extremely common, with miscellaneous doctors and surgeons being the highest-paid occupation in 23 states. Several other medical specializations are the highest-paying occupations in many states.
Because so many of these jobs were the highest-paying in multiple states, we've arranged the list in order of the 12 jobs that appear on the above map. We've also included a list of the states for which that job is the highest-paying, along with the job's average annual salary in those states: