By far the best paying career is being rich. Once you have money that works for you and gains in value through investment in the market, in rent-generating real estate, or earning interest (not that this last one happens much anymore), you can far out-earn any conventional career (eventually). A computer programmer might earn $100,000 mid-career, and a medical doctor might earn double that, and those are both considered well-paid jobs (some people in both make way more than that, but few earn $1,000,0000). Financial analysts for investment banks, who are largely paid through bonuses as they advance, can make $300,000 early in their careers, and millions of dollars later. Few last very long in that field, I’m told. Someone in sales could make $20,000 a year, or could earn ten or 100 times that; they’re paid commission, so better salespeople who sell higher-margin, higher-cost items make more.
