When weighing a potential job opportunity, one of the primary factors is compensation. For those who wish to maximize their income, which jobs offer the highest salaries?

Using the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Foreign Labor Certification Data Center, CareerTrends found the 25 highest-paying occupations. Employment data from the BLS is from May 2014, while salary data from the FLCDC is from June 2015.

The FLCDC uses four categorizations for experience level: entry level, qualified, experienced and fully competent. For this list, we focused on the fully competent-level salary of each career in order to show each job’s highest possible compensation. Experienced workers typically have multiple years of experience (three years or more) in their careers and require less on-the-job supervision than entry level or qualified workers. Fully competent workers have five or more years of experience and require little to no on-the-job supervision.

Unsurprisingly, the list is dominated by health-related careers. Various specialized health positions — such as psychiatrists, dentists and anesthesiologists — were among the jobs with the highest salaries. Each career in the top 10 had a fully competent salary of at least $200,000. Also included with each occupation’s salary is the job description from the BLS.

Keep in mind that there is no employment minimum for inclusion on this list. Therefore, there are six jobs with fewer than 10,000 total employees, making them even more difficult positions to land.

Notes on the data:

The salaries are based on the BLSâ€s overall categorization of jobs. However, for the careers listed in this piece, we have used O*Net’s more specific classifications. Note that O*Net often lists multiple career titles within each overall BLS category. For each slide, we have chosen one specific title to represent the overall BLS category.

#25. Pharmacists

Fully competent salary: $129,908
Current employment: 290,780

Job description: Dispense drugs prescribed by physicians and other health practitioners and provide information to patients about medications and their use. May advise physicians and other health practitioners on the selection, dosage, interactions and side effects of medications.

#24. Sales Managers

Fully competent salary: $130,619
Current employment: 358,920

Job description: Plan, direct or coordinate the actual distribution or movement of a product or service to the customer. Coordinate sales distribution by establishing sales territories, quotas and goals and establish training programs for sales representatives. Analyze sales statistics gathered by staff to determine sales potential and inventory requirements and monitor the preferences of customers.

#23. Astronomers

Fully competent salary: $132,266
Current employment: 1,660

Job description: Observe, research and interpret astronomical phenomena to increase basic knowledge or apply such information to practical problems.

#22. Optometrists

Fully competent salary: $133,435
Current employment: 33,340

Job description: Diagnose, manage and treat conditions and diseases of the human eye and visual system. Examine eyes and visual system, diagnose problems or impairments, prescribe corrective lenses, and provide treatment. May prescribe therapeutic drugs to treat specific eye conditions.

#21. Marketing Managers

Fully competent salary: $134,609
Current employment: 184,490

Job description: Plan, direct or coordinate marketing policies and programs, such as determining the demand for products and services offered by a firm and its competitors, and identify potential customers. Develop pricing strategies with the goal of maximizing the firm’s profits or share of the market while ensuring the firm’s customers are satisfied. Oversee product development or monitor trends that indicate the need for new products and services.

#20. Engineering Managers

Fully competent salary: $138,668
Current employment: 179,320

Job description: Plan, direct or coordinate activities in such fields as architecture and engineering or research and development in these fields.

#19. Physicists

Fully competent salary: $145,918
Current employment: 16,790

Job description: Conduct research into physical phenomena, develop theories on the basis of observation and experiments, and devise methods to apply physical laws and theories.

#18. Law Professors

Fully competent salary: $154,079
Current employment: 15,990

Job description: Teach courses in law. Includes both teachers primarily engaged in teaching and those who do a combination of teaching and research.

#17. Petroleum Engineers

Fully competent salary: $157,520
Current employment: 33,740

Job description: Devise methods to improve oil and gas extraction and production and determine the need for new or modified tool designs. Oversee drilling and offer technical advice.

#16. Podiatrists

Fully competent salary: $171,196
Current employment: 8,910

Job description: Diagnose and treat diseases and deformities of the human foot.

#15. Prosthodontists

Fully competent salary: $175,620
Current employment: 630

Job description: Construct oral prostheses to replace missing teeth and other oral structures to correct natural and acquired deformation of mouth and jaws. Provide care to restore and maintain oral function, such as chewing and speaking, and to improve appearance.

#14. Nurse Anesthetists

Fully competent salary: $180,121
Current employment: 36,590

Job description: Administer anesthesia, monitor patient’s vital signs and oversee patient recovery from anesthesia. May assist anesthesiologists, surgeons, other physicians or dentists. Must be registered nurses who have specialized graduate education.

#13. Chief Executives

Fully competent salary: $193,496
Current employment: 246,240

Job description: Determine and formulate policies and provide overall direction of companies or private and public sector organizations within guidelines set up by a board of directors or similar governing body. Plan, direct or coordinate operational activities at the highest level of management with the help of subordinate executives and staff managers.

#12. General Dentists

Fully competent salary: $195,804
Current employment: 97,990

Job description: Examine, diagnose and treat diseases, injuries and malformations of teeth and gums. May treat diseases of nerve, pulp and other dental tissues affecting oral hygiene and retention of teeth. May fit dental appliances or provide preventive care.

#11. Specialist Dentists

Fully competent salary: $197,269
Current employment: 5,450

Job description: Specialist dentists include oral pathologists, endodontists and periodontists.

#10. General Pediatricians

Fully competent salary: $203,817
Current employment: 31,010

Job description: Diagnose, treat and help prevent children’s diseases and injuries.

#9. Anesthesiologists

Fully competent salary: $205,817
Current employment: 30,060

Job description: Administer anesthetics prior to, during or after surgery or other medical procedures.

#8. Psychiatrists

Fully competent salary: $211,284
Current employment: 25,080

Job description: Diagnose, treat and help prevent disorders of the mind.

#7. General Practitioners

Fully competent salary: $214,758
Current employment: 124,810

Job description: Diagnose, treat and help prevent diseases and injuries that commonly occur in the general population. May refer patients to specialists when needed for further diagnosis or treatment.

#6. General Internists

Fully competent salary: $221,944
Current employment: 48,390

Job description: Diagnose and provide non-surgical treatment of diseases and injuries of internal organ systems. Provide care mainly for adults who have a wide range of problems associated with the internal organs.

#5. Other Physicians & Surgeons

Fully competent salary: $224,916
Current employment: 311,320*

*Note: Other physicians and surgeons include allergists, immunologists, dermatologists, hospitalists, neurologists, nuclear medicine physicians, ophthalmologists, pathologists, physical medicine and rehabilitation physicians, preventive medicine physicians, radiologists, sports medicine physicians, and urologists. The BLS groups all of these specific occupations into the same category.

#4. Obstetricians & Gynecologists

Fully competent salary: $226,517
Current employment: 21,740

Job description: Provide medical care related to pregnancy or childbirth and those who diagnose, treat and help prevent diseases of women, particularly those affecting the reproductive system. May also provide general medical care to women.

#3. Oral Surgeons

Fully competent salary: $228,019
Current employment: 5,120

Job description: Perform surgery and related procedures on the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial regions to treat diseases, injuries or defects. May diagnose problems of the oral and maxillofacial regions. May perform surgery to improve function or appearance.

#2. Surgeons

Fully competent salary: $229,273
Current employment: 41,070

Job description: Treat diseases, injuries and deformities by invasive, minimally-invasive or non-invasive surgical methods, such as using instruments, appliances or by manual manipulation.

#1. Orthodontists

Fully competent salary: $232,847
Current employment: 6,190

Job description: Examine, diagnose and treat dental malocclusions and oral cavity anomalies. Design and fabricate appliances to realign teeth and jaws to produce and maintain normal function and to improve appearance.

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November 7, 2011, Jersey City, NJ — Two successful programs that train and place Jersey City residents in service-industry jobs are being funded to continue their work for the next year. As a result of the support of Mayor Healy and his administration, and the vote of the Jersey City Municipal Council last week, Community Partnerships in Hotel Employment and The Customer Service Skills Center will again be recipients of funding from the Jersey City Economic Development Corporationâ€s Urban Enterprise Zone (UEZ) Program.

 “These are two programs that not only provide the men and women of Jersey City with training, counseling, and skills, but they also place our residents in good-paying jobs and help them retain those jobs,” said Mayor Healy. “In turn, these programs are vital to providing the hospitality and customer-service industries here in Jersey City with the qualified workforce they need to succeed.”

 Funding appropriated for these programs came from prior collections made to the Jersey City UEZâ€s program. Under the UEZ program, shoppers who purchase goods from UEZ-certified retailers pay just 3.5% sales tax — half the normal tax — on most goods. A percentage of those sales-tax collections was returned to the UEZ program for reinvestment in programs and projects to strengthen the development of jobs and the economy.

 Jersey City Economic Development Corporation Chief Executive Officer Steve Lipski said the programs exemplify the progress and good that can be made when the public and private sectors work together.

 “Both of these programs have histories of success, and both are the partnerships between the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation, our Urban Enterprise Zone Program, and a number of organizations throughout the area,” Mr. Lipski said. He noted that both are sectoral-employment initiatives that succeed by learning the needs of specific labor markets and providing individuals with training that lead to good jobs with opportunities for advancement.

 JCEDC UEZ Director Roberta Farber said Community Partnerships in Hotel Employment (CPHE) is an initiative of WomenRising, Inc. in partnership with Hudson County Community College Center for Business & Industry and the JCEDC UEZ Program. The program has working relationships with forty area hotels, as well as Cruise Link, and several other restaurants, and transportation and housekeeping companies. Candidates for the program are recruited and screened by Jersey City Employment & Training.

 The CPHE programâ€s course consists of: industry-specific, job-readiness training; computer skills training; job placement; an internship; pre- and post-employment job coaching; access to additional educational opportunities at Hudson County Community College; and other support and life-skills services. The CPHE curriculum incorporates nationally recognized standards from the American Hotel & Lodging Association and the National Restaurant Association. CPHE participants who successfully complete the training may earn up to ten college credits.

 From 2000 to 2010, 231 individuals successfully completed the CPHE training. The cumulative graduation rate for the past three cycles was 90% with an 86% job placement rate.

 The newly approved UEZ funding for CPHE will provide training and services for another 80 individuals between now and November 2012.

 The Customer Service Skills Center (CSSC) services employers and potential employees by recruiting, assessing, training and placing individuals in long-term, career-focused jobs in high-growth sales, industries (customer service, retail, banking and finance, administrative, education, health, transportation, and security). CSSC is supported by partnerships between Jersey City Episcopal Community Development Corporation, Hudson County Community College Center for Business & Industry, the JCEDC UEZ, National Retail Federation Foundation, Jersey City Employment & Training, Hudson County Workforce Investment Board, Hudson County Economic Development Corporation, and the New Jersey Department of Workforce & Labor Development.

 The CSSC training is based upon the National Customer Service & Sales and Pilot Retail Standards. At the end of their training, participants are prepared to take a national certification exam. The program also supplies: money for transportation to-and-from classes and interviews to those students who need it; resume writing assistance; mentoring; and “interview” outfits from the Jersey City Dress for Success program.

 Since its inception in 2004, CSSC has provided training to more than 850 individuals; 84% of that number completed the entire training, 58% successfully achieved the NRF certification, and 65% earned a starting wage of $10-$12 an hour.

 While CSSC is intended to serve unemployed and underemployed individuals with at least an eighth-grade education, this past yearâ€s participants included four individuals with masterâ€s degrees, and eleven with bachelorâ€s degrees — which speaks to the current economic climate. The average starting wage was $11.32, but several graduates were placed in jobs with starting wages of $18 or more, and two were hired at annual salaries of $40,000 or more.

 The newly approved JCEDC UEZ funding for CSSC will provide five classes for several dozen more individuals between now and November 2012.

 

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(Jersey City, N.J.)

Students enrolled in the school acquire the skills and knowledge to take the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) examination to become licensed radiographers.  Radiographers assist physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and injury, and can find employment in hospitals, clinics and imaging centers.

            For an application or to obtain more information about Christ Hospital’s School of Radiography, please visit the School’s page located on Christ Hospital’s website, www.christhospital.org, or call:  (201) 795 – 8246.  

 About Christ Hospital

Serving Jersey City and the surrounding communities for nearly 140 years, Christ Hospital is committed to being Hudson County’s premier community hospital by continually adding state-of-the-art equipment and new programs to provide its patients with the highest level of quality and compassionate care. Christ Hospital is the only facility in Hudson County to offer IMRT therapy for the treatment of cancer and has recently opened a new maternity unit incorporating five-star care and amenities with state-of-the-art technology. In addition to medical/surgical care, specialty areas include: neurological and spinal surgery; critical care; pediatrics; oncology; obstetrics; psychiatry; cardiology; physical, occupational and speech therapy; counseling and resource center; radiation oncology; emergency medicine; same-day-surgery; nutrition counseling; and a sleep center. For more information, please call (201) 795-8000 or visit www.christhospital.org.

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Once each decade, the U.S. Census Bureau begins the long, slow, expensive process of collecting information about the roughly 300 million U.S. residents. They’ll ask households to fill out and return census forms in order to get the pulse of the nation’s demographics. In preparation for the census data collection, the Bureau will begin a campaign to convince people to mail those forms back.The campaign, which costs $300 million, will begin in earnest in March, when the Bureau mails out 10-question forms to roughly 120 million households. Robert Groves, the Census director, started in early yesterday, however, and showed up at an event in New York City in a 46-foot trailer called “Mail it Back.” In all, the Census Bureau will have 13 such vehicles show up at roughly 800 events around the country, including such high-profile events as the Super Bowl  and the NCAA Final Four. Said Groves, “The whole purpose is to reach out to people at local events.”

The data collected by the Census Bureau is used in a variety of Congressional studies, as well as to distribute federal and state aid. Private companies and other government agencies also use the data. Said Groves, “There’s political power involved because of the Constitution. There’s money involved as well.” This year, forms will be sent out in other languages as well, including Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Russian. Said Groves, “I don’t think you can ever do enough. What we are doing, I think, is something to be proud of.”

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At a recent Bayonne City Council meeting Gail Godesky Publicity Chairwoman & Sponsorship Chair for the American Cancer Society’s -Relay for Life addressed the Bayonne City Council in asking for the fee to be waived for the use of Ahern’s Veteran Stadium in Bayonne for the 201o Bayonne Relay For Life -which is tentatively scheduled for June 11- 12th, 2010

In her address to the Bayonne City Council, Ms. Godesky had this to say after addressing each of the council-members in attendance…

 “My name is Gail Godesky; I am born and raised in a great city-Bayonne. As some of you know my sister Lori Starke passed away at 49 years old on February 22nd, 2008 and my mom Lorraine Godesky at the age of  77 passed away February 17th, 2009 from the terrible disease we call cancer for lack of a better word and from a disease that kills and not quietly but rather angrily.

Cancer shows no preference-it has struck old, young, mothers, father’s, brothers, sisters, husbands, wives and dear friends.

Since the passing of my family members I have been very involved in the American Cancer Society and the Relay for Life. Our team is called the EVERYDAY ANGELS.

Ms. Godesky then asked the American Cancer Society members to stand who were in attendance of the meeting and then stated that she was there to ask for special consideration of the Bayonne City Council by saying…

 

“Now in 2010 we are asking for the fee to again be waived. $6800 could be what we pay to use Ahern’s Veteran Stadium…or it could be used to pay for expenses for 2 patients to stay at Hope Lodge for a day, and for 1 patients to participate in and American Cancer Society funded clinical trial, and reach to recovery visits for 5 women, and 8 round trips for 1 patient via the road to rec0very program. It could help fund the DNA research in the cancer prevention study, better determining the different causes of cancer. The money we raise at the Relay for Life of Bayonne is used to fund research, programs and services, advocacy and education. Imagine what the $100,000 we want to raise can do to help.

By waiving our fee, you are bringing us $6800 closer to that goal.  And more importantly, you are helping us create a world with less cancer and more birthdays.”

As of this post Ms. Godesky and the American Cancer Society -Bayonne’s Relay for Life is awaiting word on the Bayonne City Council’s decision to waive the fee for the use of Ahern Stadium for the 2010 Bayonne Relay for Life.

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Pertain has 31 years of experience in the banking industry. He began his career at Provident in 1978

in a management training program and created the bank’s marketing department in 1980. Before his recent promotion, Pertain was vice president and marketing director.

Pertain earned a B.S. from Ramapo College in business administration and economics and a minor in marketing. He is an honors graduate of America’s Community Bankers’ National School of Banking and also graduated from its executive development program, both held at Fairfield University (CT).

Pertain is a member of the Civil War Preservation Trust, which helps fund the preservation of Civil War battlefields.

Pertain lives with his wife of 28 years, Kathleen, and their two children, Dianna (age 21) and Christopher (age 14) in Hampton Township (NJ).

About The Provident Bank

With $4.2 billion in deposits, The Provident Bank serves its customers via a network of 82 branches throughout northern and central New Jersey. The Provident Bank is the wholly owned subsidiary of Provident Financial Services, Inc. (NYSE:PFS), which reported assets of $6.6 billion as of December 31, 2008.

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