Highest-Paying Careers

Drive for an F1 team

Play professional basketball in the NBA

Play professional American football

Play professional football in the English Premier League

Play professional baseball in MLB

Box professionally in pro leagues and promotions

Play professional tennis on the pro tour

Drive in NASCAR Cup, Xfinity, or Truck Series

Play professional golf on tour

Play professional ice hockey in the NHL

Drive for an IndyCar team

Perform as a DJ at clubs, festivals, and private events

Compete professionally in mixed martial arts

Perform in professional wrestling companies

Specialize as a certified agent in a specific pro sport

Analyze sports for TV, radio, and streaming networks

Perform stand-up comedy on clubs, theaters, and TV

Compete for country in the Olympics

Host an entertainment podcast as a full-time business

Run a book of investments with P&L responsibility

Skate professionally and create content

Broadcast live sports events for TV, radio, or streaming

Compete and create content in extreme sports

Play professional soccer in Major League Soccer

Surf professionally on the world tour and event circuit

Perform surgery on the brain, spine, and nervous system

Buy and operate small businesses

Professionally farm and participate in airdrops

Hunt bugs on private programs and platforms like HackerOne

Build a direct-to-consumer brand

Compete professionally in a video game at the top tier

Build a paid content business on OnlyFans

Play poker for a living live or online

Build and run a small SaaS as a solo or small team

Perform cardiac catheterizations and structural heart procedures

Perform surgery on bones, joints, and soft tissue

Perform reconstructive and cosmetic surgery

Diagnose and treat heart rhythm disorders

Litigate patent, trademark, and trade secret cases

Perform minimally invasive image-guided procedures

Design and run algorithmic trading strategies

Advise on mergers, monopolies, and antitrust enforcement

Run incident response from a legal perspective

Diagnose and treat heart disease

Treat digestive system disease

Pilot large ships into and out of harbors

Treat cancer with radiation therapy

Perform cancer surgery across organ systems

Federal criminal defense

Surgically treat diseases of the urinary tract and male reproductive system

Broker office, retail, industrial, and multifamily deals

Provide primary care to a small panel of members

Treat ear, nose, throat, and head-and-neck disease

Manage liver disease including transplant candidates

Diagnose and treat eye disease and perform eye surgery

Treat chronic pain with interventional procedures

Perform surgery on infants and children

Ride BMX professionally in freestyle or racing

Place reinsurance with specialty carriers

Advise on securities offerings, regulation, and enforcement

SCOTUS + appellate work

Mass tort + consumer class actions

Manage high-risk pregnancies

Treat cancer across clinic and inpatient settings

Interpret medical images to detect disease and guide treatment decisions

Contract as an AI red team operator for labs and enterprises

Run SEO-driven affiliate content sites

Source and sell private-label products on Amazon

Lead financial strategy and steer organizations toward sustainable growth

Build a personal brand and business creating content you love

Design algorithmic trading strategies for crypto markets

Trade equities, futures, or crypto for own account

Design structured products across rates, equities, and credit

Diagnose and treat skin, hair, and nail conditions from acne to cancer

Run ESG-oriented investment strategies

Handle deals for film, TV, music, and creators

Coach senior leaders and executives

Run faceless YouTube channels with scripted content and AI production

Perform autopsies and determine cause of death

Pretrain and fine-tune frontier-scale language models

Lead the legal function and protect the organization at the highest level

Research long/short, event-driven, or credit ideas

Generate outsized investment returns by deploying sophisticated strategies across global financial markets

Invest for measurable social and environmental impact

Integrate conventional medicine with complementary modalities

Run ketamine therapy programs for mental health

Advise on merger, acquisition, and private equity deals

Extract maximal extractable value from public mempools

Perform magic professionally in theaters and private events

Research MEV dynamics in on-chain markets

Negotiate media rights deals for sports, film, and streaming

Run a county or state medical examiner office

Build and publish indie mobile games

Care for critically ill newborns in the NICU

Advise campaigns and political clients on strategy and communications

Sell PB services to hedge funds and asset managers

Build a productized service business in a niche

Climb professionally and generate sponsor income

Negotiate with ransomware operators on behalf of victims

Treat infertility and reproductive endocrine disorders

Build games and experiences on Roblox

Execute client trades across equities, fixed income, or rates

Advise athletes, teams, leagues, and agencies on sports-related matters

Manage acute stroke and cerebrovascular disease

Build a paid newsletter on Substack

Tour professionally as an artist or hired musician

Compete professionally in triathlon or endurance sports

Build an audience and business on YouTube

Build an audience, create videos, monetize through ads, sponsors, products

A professional specializing in hosting and producing podcasts.

A professional specializing in live streaming on Twitch, YouTube, or Kick.

A professional specializing in YouTube content creation and channel growth.

Treat mental illness in children and teens

Treat blood diseases and leukemia/lymphoma

Advance theoretical quantum computing

CEO and leadership coaching

Treat lung disease and run critical-care units

Shape organizational culture and lead people strategy at the highest level

Treat acute and undifferentiated presentations in the ED

Conduct fusion physics research

Thoroughbred training operations

Handle admiralty and maritime law matters

Deliver babies and manage women's reproductive health

Perform surgical procedures of the mouth, jaws, and face

Diagnose disease by examining tissues and body fluids

Develop quantum algorithms and applications

Treat musculoskeletal and athletic injuries

Advise on tariffs, sanctions, and cross-border trade

Treat kidney disease and run dialysis programs

FERC + state PUC practice

Music industry deals

Tariffs + trade disputes

Admiralty and shipping law

Athlete representation + contracts

Media rights + licensing

Research AI safety and value alignment

Design Neuralink-style brain implants and interfaces

Diagnose and treat nervous-system disease

Treat autoimmune and inflammatory joint disease

Design fusion plasma confinement systems

Build optical computing systems

Research methods that keep AI systems aligned with human intent

Build safety infrastructure for LLM-powered products

Treat substance use disorders

Treat allergy, asthma, and immune disease

Run the athletic department of a school or university

Handle aviation disputes, safety cases, and commercial deals

Develop living computers using biological systems

Fly passengers and cargo for airlines

Teach a subject to an audience via YouTube, courses, and newsletters

Advise on breach response, regulatory compliance, and cyber risk

Handle employment disputes, policies, and investigations

Treat hormone and metabolic disorders

Build maps and modes in Fortnite Creative

Practice functional medicine across labs, nutrition, and lifestyle

Run a subscription newsletter on Ghost or similar self-hosted tools

Run deal execution and lead analyst teams in banking

Design and run LP strategies on DEXes and DeFi

Teach graduate business students

Research and develop next-generation ML systems

Bridge ML research and production-grade code

Consult for Fortune 500 clients at MBB-style firms

Build a recurring-revenue business through Patreon

Restore function after injury or illness

Diagnose, treat, and prevent illness to improve patient lives

Advise on global privacy regulations and enforcement

Treat mental health disorders through therapy, medication, and holistic care

Diagnose and treat sleep disorders

Navigate space law, regulation, and commercial contracts

Build a brand and monetize through sponsorships

Build a niche audience on TikTok and monetize via brand deals and products

Live stream gaming and creative content, build a loyal community, and monetize through subscriptions, donations, and sponsorships

Perform as a specialty act touring comedy and variety shows

Fund the next generation of breakthrough companies by identifying, investing in, and supporting high-growth startups

Perform specialty veterinary surgery

A professional specializing in anesthesia and perioperative care.

A UK senior hospital doctor who has completed specialty training and leads a clinical team in a specific field.

A UK family doctor providing first-contact, continuing, and holistic primary care for a registered patient list.

A UK GOsC-registered manual therapy practitioner working on musculoskeletal and related health issues.

A professional specializing in medical care for infants, children, and adolescents.

A professional specializing in medical care under physician collaboration.

Research MEV protection and dark pools

Understand and interpret neural network behavior

Design systems to remove space debris

Art market + cultural property

Drug + device approvals

Discover novel LLM exploitation techniques

Manage adult inpatients in hospitals

Search and extract maximum extractable value from transactions

Study circuits and mechanisms in neural networks

Diagnose and manage genetic disease

Research models that combine text, image, audio, and video

Design brain-inspired neuromorphic processors

Develop ultra-compact nuclear reactors

Develop zero-knowledge rollup systems

Supply bulls + broncs

Manage symptoms and goals-of-care for serious illness

Design and deploy small modular nuclear reactors

Shape product strategy for foundation model companies

Adversarial testing of LLM safety and robustness