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The best jobs in America, ranked

Published Jan 21st, 2016 2:13PM EST
Glassdoor Best Jobs In America List
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Are you sick of your career and are looking to start a new one? If so then you should check out all the jobs that Glassdoor.com just listed as the 25 best jobs in America. The No. 1 job in the country according to Glassdoor is being a data scientist, which pays a median base salary of over $116,000 and has more than 1,700 job openings on Glassdoor right now. In other words, if you’re a data scientist, your skills are highly valued.

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There are plenty of other worthy tech-related jobs on Glassdoor’s list. There are currently over 2,900 job openings for solutions architects on Glassdoor, for instance, and those jobs offer a median base salary of over $119,000. The only reason solutions architect is ranked behind data scientist is that it has a lower overall Career Opportunity rating.

Other tech-related jobs on the list include mobile developer (2,250 openings, $90,000 median base salary), software engineer (49,000 openings, $95,000 median base salary), analytics manager (under 1,000 openings, $105,000 median base salary), software development manager (1,200 openings, $135,000 base salary), and UX designer (under 1,000 openings, $92,000 median base salary).

Basically, if you’re good at writing software, now is a very good time to be looking for a job.

Check out the full list of Glassdoor’s best jobs in America at this link.

Brad Reed
Brad Reed Staff Writer

Brad Reed has written about technology for over eight years at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet and the American Prospect. He has a Master's Degree in Business and Economics Journalism from Boston University.