Ten High-Paying Jobs That Don't Require A College Degree

walletpop.com:

Payscale.com has a list of well-paying jobs you can skip college for, based on statistics based on compiled by and the Bureau of Labor Statistics, but we've added a few of our own. By the way: Bounty hunters can earn up to $138,000 a year, tree trimmers average $32,090, makeup artists can average $45,000, and truck drivers can make $66,000.

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Comments

[Rupesh Pawani]

04:16 AM on 08/31/2010

What is with all these articles about women making more or less then men? If this is all some women do then I can see why they make less . . .
http://www.tipsforinvesting.net/highest-paying-careers.html

[OrangeCountyCat]

11:25 PM on 08/12/2010

You cannot get a Landscape Architecture License without a college degree from an accredited Landscape Architecture program.

CLARB is the group that oversees the Landscape Architectural license process.

That college degree is the most basic requirement for getting a license.

Whoever wrote this article needs to learn how to do research and fact checking. It sounds like the job she is speaking of is a landscape designer. Anyone can declare themselves to be a landscape designer but that's not anything like being a professional Landscape Architect.

It's also a terrible, terrible time to be a Landscape Architect and I say that from experience, BTW.

[ran6110]

11:42 PM on 08/11/2010

OK, software engineer should be included. I've worked with many who had no collage at all and a couple that never finished high school.

Generally depending on the type of work and the position you can get anywhere from $30 to $80 per hour.

[dadw5boys]

11:25 PM on 08/11/2010

Hidden in many city, county and state budgets are free junior college scolarships that only the wellconnected or well informed know about. Read all their budgets to find the program because you will have to askfor the applications by name they will not volunteer the info.

[mikefina]

10:51 PM on 08/11/2010

How about becoming a journalist? Sure SOME journalists are degreed, but it isn't a requirement.

And, opposable thumbs aren't even required, as voice-recognition software will permit you to dictate your non-sensical ruminations.

[ChelseaInNJ]

09:10 PM on 08/11/2010

Become a city worker in San Francisco: average salary is greater than $90,000, which is why teh city is broke. Cost of living here is not as high as it used to be and you can BART to cheaper area.
This city will hire the bottom of the barrel, just be a lib.

[BBackSoon]

06:14 PM on 08/11/2010

Wow, $30k to $70k is now High Paying?

That sucks.

[Prousa]

05:50 PM on 08/11/2010

Predominantly anti-higher-education comments here. Bummer.

[BlueSkyPilot]

04:48 PM on 08/11/2010

Street walker, Corner Pharmacist, Automobile appropriator, Automotive parts re-distributor, Medicare/Medicaid phantom patient, Corner Store Investment collector, Bank Asset appropriator, Home Owner possesion redistributor,

Sorry that's all I can think of. They come with varying length enfoced vacations too.

[texastrixie]

03:12 PM on 08/11/2010

sorry PARK, not parT. All those letters with arms still elude me.

[texastrixie]

03:09 PM on 08/11/2010

This article is ridiculous. You may not need a four-year degree to get these jobs, but anytime you need to get a license, you can be assured that you will need lots of experience, or a course of study (2-yr degree) and pass a battery of tests. You don't just study up, and then throw down some money and get a license and a job making good money.

Also, in reality, you are up against other people who will have a 4-year degree, and thus will be more valuable than you as an employee. That doesn't mean you won't get a job, but its not some walk in the part like this article implies.

Also think about air conditioning/heating repair, all the major delivery services (brown, etc), and mechanics. The boomers are retiring, and companies will be hiring in the future. Plus, you cannot send your air conditioner to China on a hot August day when it quits!

[MsIrisMG]

12:09 PM on 08/11/2010

I don't think college is worth it anymore. Unless young people know what it is they want to do, it's just not worth it to spend bookoos of money just to learn humanities. All that can be done at the junior college level, the general ed stuff, that is. Spend money either at vo-tech, since a job is the goal, or learn how to run a business, which doesn't take $20K/yr to do. This is what I'd tell my own kid. Don't go to college just to go to college.

[vippy]

02:34 PM on 08/11/2010

I just don't know why US students have to go 12 years to school and so many can't even read or spell when they get out. Most countries do 10 years and then they take up a job combined with school and they learn the job from the ground up or if they desire they go off to higher education at 12 years old and then take the university route. Now we even have 3 year olds in school and that is just "babysitting." I think it is also cruel for child that young to be sent off all day.

[texastrixie]

03:11 PM on 08/11/2010

You'd be amazed how much even babies "learn" when put in daycare. Being at home with mom all day (unless mom is a fanatic on education), usually means a day spent in idle play with little interaction.

[BlueSkyPilot]

04:36 PM on 08/11/2010

Public school is total waste of time and money. It ls just a way to keep kids off the streets for 9 months of the year.