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- $4 is a field that's supposed to promise high salaries.
- That's a popular line of thinking, anyway.
- But some roles tend to rake in higher pay than others.
- $4 looked through its salary data to figure out which healthcare jobs earn the most money.
Medicine is a lucrative field.
It is true that highly skilled people working in an in-demand industry like healthcare tend to make a lot of money. But which positions really earn the most?
In order to find out, $4 provided Business Insider with data collected through the site's $4 over the past year, which asks verified members to submit their salary and collects data on wages. Of course, since the data is self-reported by users, it might be subject to some variation.
The jobs are all from the healthcare industry, but c-suite titles were eliminated from the search. LinkedIn calculated median base salaries, as well as median total salaries, which included additional compensation like annual bonuses, sign-on bonuses, stock options, and commission.
The top gigs all went to physicians. These 15 positions all make a median base salary of at least $225,000 a year.
Here are the highest-paying jobs in healthcare: