Top pay for girls

To help pick the right career for you, find out how much money you’re likely to make.

The article, “Best-Paying Jobs For Women,” ranks the ten top-paying jobs for women who worked full time in 2009.

Look at the graph below. It represents those ten top-paying jobs.

Each job is shown as a stack of coins. The more coins, the more pay.

The gold coins are STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, or Math) careers. How many of the top-paying careers for women are STEM careers?

BEST-PAYING JOBS FOR WOMEN


















The STEM career that pays women the most is… pharmacist! And job opportunities for pharmacists are expected to grow faster than for most other careers until at least 2018.

LINKS

● For a quick-and-easy overview of pharmacist careers, click on "Listen to the podcast..." at the Sloan Career Cornerstone Center. It’s an introduction to the required schooling, a day-in-the-life of a pharmacist, salary info, where pharmacists work, and the fantastic job market in the years ahead.

● Read an interview of a research pharmacist (why she chose her career, her workday, what she likes best and least about work, career goals, hobbies).