Top Paying Jobs in Boulder, CO
Boulder, CO has 100 tracked occupation categories totaling 47,460 jobs. The highest-paying occupations include Surgeons, All Other ($465,940), Physicians, All Other ($453,460), Family Medicine Physicians ($297,070).
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Highest paying careers in Boulder
| Rank | Occupation | Category | Median salary | Hourly |
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| 71 | First-Line Supervisors of Firefighting and Prevention Workers | Public Safety | $121K | $58.17/hr |
| 72 | Industrial Engineers | Engineering | $117K | $56.33/hr |
| 73 | Database Administrators | Technology | $116K | $55.89/hr |
| 74 | Diagnostic Medical Sonographers | Healthcare | $115K | $55.11/hr |
| 75 | Magnetic Resonance Imaging Technologists | Healthcare | $111K | $53.37/hr |
| 76 | Network and Computer Systems Administrators | Technology | $110K | $52.79/hr |
| 77 | Financial and Investment Analysts | Business & Finance | $108K | $51.96/hr |
| 78 | Commercial and Industrial Designers | Arts & Media | $108K | $51.92/hr |
| 79 | Economists | Science | $108K | $51.86/hr |
| 80 | Geoscientists, Except Hydrologists and Geographers | Science | $108K | $51.86/hr |
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