What Are The Top 10 Highest Paying Jobs In Texas? El Paso?

There are exceptions and some jobs are easier to get than others but, on the whole, if you want the big bucks in Texas or El Paso, these are the jobs you want.

Opening your own business can be pretty lucrative and inventing some amazingly cool new product that costs a dollar to make, sells for $10 dollars and is habit forming can totally fatten up your bank account.

There are lots of ways to get rich but if you want the highest paying jobs in Texas or even just El Paso, some sort of medical schooling will be necessary.

You can make some bank in all kinds of ways ... some jobs pay well because they are super dangerous, others pay well because they're talent based. Artists, master chefs, musicians, etc. Billy Gibbons is worth about $60 million and all he does is play guitar, grow his beard and shop for weird hats.

Those gigs require not only talent but also a great degree of luck. If you want the big bucks in Texas, guaranteed, you'll need to start with a good education. Preferably in the medical field as that's where most of the money in Texas is.

Top 10 Highest Paying Jobs In Texas

According to nexford.edu, Cardiologists are the big winners in Texas, raking in $524K on average. Of the top 10 highest paying jobs in Texas, only 3 are NOT in the medical field.

Physicians - Salaries vary, depending on their specialty, with cardiologists on top.
Chief Executive Officer - $373K
Radiologists - $376,700
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon - $315,200
Psychiatrist - $256K
Orthodontist - $221,500
Nurse Anesthetist - $211,300
Airline Pilot - $201,800
Ophthalmologist - $163,300
Petroleum Engineers - $122,200

Top 10 Highest Paying Jobs In El Paso

According to ktsm, the medical field rules around here too. Not quite as much as it does nationally but it's pretty close with only 4 non-medical jobs in the top 10.

CEO - $245,810
Family medicine physicians - $223,810
General internal medicine physicians - $197,310
Pediatricians $197,070
Dentists $177,940
Sales managers $143,680
Education administrators $139,550
Computer and information systems managers $136,610
Veterinarians $134,860
Pharmacists $133,450

LOOK: Average salary needed to get by in every U.S. state

According to data from GOBankingRates.com, The median salary across the U.S. a single person must make to get by collectively is $57,000. However, some states are far from that.

So how much higher or lower is your state to the national average, and which states are the top 10 most and least affordable overall? Let's find out.

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The 10 Best Jobs That Don't Require A College Degree

According to the U.S. News & World Report, these are the 10 best jobs you can get without a college degree. "Note that all the jobs on this list are taken from the U.S. News 100 Best Jobs ranking. Data comes from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics."