The Highest Paying Jobs in the World

If you’re not born rich and you haven’t achieved notoriety, fame, or royal status along the way then you might be scratching your head and wondering: who are the highest earners on the planet and how do I become one? 

Some of the highest paying jobs in the world are featured here in our top ten.

Project Manager – £80,000 +

A project manager is someone who has the overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and completion of any given project.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Planning

Planning and Sequencing

Time Estimating

Developing a Budget

Managing Risks and Issues

Team Leadership

Controlling Quality

Strategic Account Manager – £100,000 +

A strategic account manager will maintain and grow lead accounts with up to five named or known customers. The responsibility is to achieve the sales quota.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Establish professional relationships with clients

Coordinate the involvement of company personnel

Meet sales targets

Complete customer account plans

Organisational alignment – Reporting to VP accounts

Air Traffic Controller – £120,000 +

Directing aircraft during takeoff and landing is just part of the job.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Issue landing and takeoff instructions to pilots

Oversee communications & take control of departing flights to traffic control centers and accepting control of arriving flights

Provide information to pilots, inc. runway closures, weather updates, and other critical information

Monitor and direct the movement of aircraft on the ground and in the air, using radar, computers, or visual references

Control all ground traffic at airports, including baggage vehicles and airport workers

In the event of an aircraft emergency, alert airport response staff.

Marketing Manager £130,000 +

Marketing Managers create complex advertising campaigns. May also negotiate contracts, test out level of public interest in a campaign, pitching and looking for new markets.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Creating entire advertising campaigns working with the team, leading from the front

Negotiation of contracts

Developing marketing strategy

Pitching campaigns to clients

Looking for new markets

Overseeing budget

Working closely with design agencies

Cosmetic Dentist – £145,000 +

A Cosmetic Dentist works on the teeth to specifically improve the appearance of the teeth, colour position, shape size and bite or gums can be involved.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Teeth whitening

Composite bonding

Dental veneers

Implants

Restore damaged teeth

Lengthen small teeth

Software Developer – £150,000 +

Also known as computer programmer or coder, includes developing code by writing it from scratch by using one or various programmes to design or re-design an end virtual product.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Invent new ways and strategy to solve the algorithm

Work as part of an agile team

Iteratively improve performance and reliability of software components

Implementation of components using a programming language

Knowledge of various programming languages, design patterns and computer architectures

Designing of data models, database models and architecture

Performance analysis

Testing and deployment of product

Third level support

Documentation of components

Delivery and deployment of the finished product

Creative Director – £160,000 +

The Creative Director exists across many industries, be it film, fashion, advertising, graphics etc. They lead teams of employees through brainstorming, concept, design, copywriting, production and communication to move forward. To assume this role one must have an existing set of expertise in many areas.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Invent new ideas for campaigns and business these include but are not limited to: product, branding, marketing, campaigns which can be virtual/social/editorial

Recognise and adapt to new approaches of media and advertising

Understand new trends and create befitting relevant work to such, as well as trend prediction

Analytical skills with data during progress of campaigns and how well they’re doing

Very varied cross section of creative skills which may include but are not limited to: concepts, sketching, product modelling, appropriate tech skills across multiple platforms: (design, production, marketing, social and analytical apps), editorial, film, photography, web, copywriting and much more

Liaising with clients, B2B and B2C

Management skills: design team scheduling, their own work and potentially other teams as well

Senior Level Corporate Executive – £170,000 +

Senior management, executive management, or a management team refers in general to a team  at the highest level of an organisation who are responsible for the day-to-day running of a corporation or company.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Executive power over the company which will be in accordance with the directors and shareholders of that company.

Managing senior levels of management.

Working in accordance with other senior figureheads, eg: Chief Executive Officer, (CEO) Chief Operating Officer, (COO) Chief Financial Officer, (CFO).

Surgeon – £350,000 +

The role of a surgeon is diverse yet also categorised to the field of knowledge. A heart surgeon, plastic surgeon and so on. In simple terms, a doctor qualified to perfom surgery in the given field.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Preparing for procedures

Reviewing files and meeting patients

Perform surgery related to the field in the operating room

Patient aftercare checks and possible revisions

Barrister – £90,000 – £1,000,000 +

A person called to the bar, acting as a highly qualified lawyer. Specialising in courtrooms and litigation. A barrister will represent an individual or an organisation in a courtroom setting.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Full knowledge of law which they’re advising upon

Discussing at length a court case with a client

Offering expert legal advice to clients

Representing a client in court

(These roles are not necessarily capped at this amount and this is not an indication that these are the only highly paid roles available. The roles and responsibilities listed are not limited to these lists and indictae in some instances only some of what is undertaken by the professional.)