The Highest-Paying Jobs At Apple [RANKED]

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22. Mac Genius

22. Mac Genius

Salary: $44,070

Mac Geniuses are super important to the shopping experience at Apple's stores. But they don't receive a lot of love from Apple, it seems (at least in terms of salary).

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21. Lead Mac Genius

21. Lead Mac Genius

Salary: $55,626

After you've spent a little bit of time at an Apple Store as a Genius, you'll get paid a little bit more.

Lead Mac Geniuses get paid about half what a good software engineer at Apple gets paid.

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20. Assistant Apple Store manager

20. Assistant Apple Store manager

Salary: $56,046

Apple needs some people to help run its stores. Assistant store managers get paid better than the rank-and-file Mac Geniuses and sales representatives.

19. Account executive

19. Account executive

Salary: $82,479

Account executives manage business-to-business relationships and are tasked with maintaining them. Apple has a bunch of relationships with advertisers and hardware component manufacturers, so it needs people to manage them.

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18. Store Manager

18. Store Manager

Salary: $85,357

These are the leaders of each Apple Store. You may not see them on the front lines with customers, but they're crucial to Apple's success.

17. Business analyst

17. Business analyst

Salary: $92,169

Business analysts make sure Apple's business is running smoothly.

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16. Financial analyst

16. Financial analyst

Salary: $94,799

Apple also has to have a good team of quantitative crunchers to make sure its business is running smoothly and its finances are in line.

15. Software quality assurance engineer

15. Software quality assurance engineer

Salary: $99,650

Apple also has to make sure the software it's shipping works properly and will be well-received by customers. That's where QA engineers come in.

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14. Systems engineer

14. Systems engineer

Salary: $104,231

With a ton of suppliers and factories, Apple has to manage logistics to make sure its products get shipped on time. Systems engineers make sure the chain isn't broken and manage Apple's risk.

13. Project manager

13. Project manager

Salary: $107,631

Project managers have to make sure all the bits and pieces of a specific project come together and are finished on time. They're overseeing a bunch of different disciplines within Apple.

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12. Firmware engineer

12. Firmware engineer

Salary: $113,155

Firmware engineers make sure all of Apple's software plays nice with its hardware. It's a critical role that requires expertise in both hardware and software.

11. Test engineer

11. Test engineer

Salary: $113,916

Test engineers develop processes that stress test products in order to assure they meet Apple's standards for quality. They're responsible for creating a testing process that ensures every Apple device shipped is fully functional and free of defects.

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10. Senior systems engineer

10. Senior systems engineer

Salary: $117,237

This is actually one of the lowest-paying senior roles at Apple. Still, senior systems engineers get paid more than twice as much as a typical retail employee.

9. Hardware engineer

9. Hardware engineer

Salary: $118,739

Hardware engineers are around to make sure Apple's hardware is up to snuff.

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8. Software engineer

8. Software engineer

Salary: $119,336

Software engineers are the brains behind Apple's applications and operating systems. For comparison, software engineers at Google make slightly more on average, at $125,322.

7. Database administrator

7. Database administrator

Salary: $122,669

Apple also has to crunch through a ton of data — whether it's usage data, serving apps through the App Store, or making sure some of its web-connected services like Siri are working. Database administrators make sure Apple's databases run quickly and don't go offline.

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6. Product design engineer

6. Product design engineer

Salary: $125,983

Design is a hugely important part of Apple. The company pays its product designers very well — often more than a typical software engineer.

5. Mechanical engineer

5. Mechanical engineer

Salary: $127,464

Apple's products also face a lot of traditional mechanical problems, like dealing with heat and moving parts. Mechanical engineers make sure Apple's products don't fall apart as a result of trivial problems.

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4. Product manager

4. Product manager

Salary: $131,108

Product managers make sure each product gets shipped while meeting Apple's bar for quality, and they interact with just about every part of the process. They're in touch with marketing, design, software, and hardware engineers — and everything in between.

3. Senior software engineer

3. Senior software engineer

Salary: $140,832

Senior software engineers get paid slightly less than senior hardware engineers. At this level, you're probably working on some of Apple's most sensitive products, like maps or the iPhone operating system.

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2. Senior hardware engineer

2. Senior hardware engineer

Salary: $150,105

Once you've spent enough time at Apple, you'll be promoted up to a senior hardware engineer. That's when you start making big bucks.

1. Industrial designer

1. Industrial designer

Salary: $174,140

Surprise! Steve Jobs has said time and again that Apple is a company that sits at the crossroads of design and technology. At its core, it has a bit of creative DNA (infused by music, mostly) that makes its products hum in a way companies like Google can't quite match.

Obviously the guys in charge of the overall visual appearance of a product and how it communicates visually with consumers is a key role at Apple, and a highly valuable one.

Apple design boss Jony Ive gets paid much more than this — in 2011, he cashed out stock options worth more than $30 million, just for an example.

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