Highest paying jobs outside of finance

Are there any niche jobs that pay close to what working in PE / HF / IBD that maybe are growing but still small areas?

I’m thinking super niche and maybe under the radar stuff that maybe kids at targets would be the only ones to know or hear about.

 
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Repost from one of my quora answers (omitted finance).

Accessible careers

  • Corporate law (Partner track, in-house or be a high flying barrister/trial lawyer)

  • Medicine (GPs (primary care physicians), specialists and surgeons)

  • Accounting (Audit/Tax) at a big4/top 10 firm (Partner track)

  • Executive management track (Director>VP>SVP>C-suite) of a business function (HR/R&D/Operations/Finance/Merchandising/Marketing/Sales etc..) at any large to mid-size company or organisation

  • Product person (engineer, product manager, designer, data scientist etc...) at a tech company (Big N (Google, Uber, Facebook etc), Unicorns (Airbnb, etc), VC-backed startups)

  • Consulting at a strat house (MBB/Oliver Wyamn/Strategy& etc) or big4 (partner track) or RX shop (A&M)

  • Executive search at a top shop (i.e. Heidrick & Struggles etc)

  • Any type of high end sales (e.g. enterprise sales, luxury sales, broking, insurance sales, internal wholsale etc)

  • Real Estate Development

  • Dentistry (esp. Orthodontics and Oral-Maxilofacial Surgery)

  • Actuarial (partner track in consulting or exec track in-house)

  • Pilot (for a major airline or shipping company)

  • Ship/Yacht Captain (for major maritime companies, UHNWIs and cruise ship companies etc)

  • Oil and Gas/Mining (Geologist/Petroleum Engineer/Mining Engineer etc..)

  • Academia (high ranking professor at a top tier university)

Talent and heavily luck-based careers

  • Scalable Entrepreneurship (high growth/VC-backed startup founder/co-founder)

  • Small Business Entrepreneurship (small business owner-operator)

  • High profile creative person (Film/TV/Theatre/Music/Modelling)

  • High profile designer (Architect/Fashion Designer etc)

  • Internet personality (Blogger/Youtuber/Social Media Influencer etc)

  • High end nutritionists

  • High end personal fitness coaches, life coaches

  • High end psychologists and therapists

  • High end sportsperson

  • High end chefs and cooks

  • Bartenders at high end venues

  • Pro gamblers and poker players

  • Pro gamers

Also butlers, executive assistants and non-office UHNW personal assistants make bank.

If you're talking niche in finance.. environmental commodities trading and litigation finance are pretty interesting. There are fine alcohol, instrument, art and other collectibles hedge funds/investment managers. You could throw in stuff like aircraft leasing funds for good measure too.

 

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