20 BIG Salary Paying Jobs...Without A Degree

Jan 21st, 2009

1. Margin department supervisor Salary: $83,579/year Primary duties: Overseeing a company's credit department, which manages customer credit accounts and approves or denies credit to customers. 2. Air traffic controller Salary: $74,922/year Primary duties: Controlling air traffic around airports according to established procedures and policies to ensure flight safety. 3. Automobile service station manager Salary: $72,246/year Primary duties: Supervising gas stations and planning and implementing policy and procedure like hours of operation, workers' duties and prices for products and services. 4. Real estate broker Salary: $71,994/year Primary duties: Securing real-estate transactions, selling real estate, renting properties and arranging loans. 5. Web surfer Salary: $70,604/year Primary duties: Scouring through multiple Web sites to analyze and compare information and user experiences to collect information to help companies understand online users' behaviors. 6. Lead carpenter Salary: $63,345/year Primary duties: Leading the on-site completion of construction projects and performing all types of carpentry work and finishing. 7. Cable supervisor Salary: $60,887/year Primary duties: Supervising the activities of workers engaged in installation, maintenance and cable repair. 8. Chemical supervisor Salary: $57,472/year Primary duties: Overseeing workers who make chemical products, verifying that chemical processes are followed. 9. Home-care aide supervisor Salary: $56,157/year Primary duties: Directing aides who mind for elderly or disabled people in a home environment, and monitoring the quality and quantity of services provided. 10. Medical facility housekeeping manager Salary: $55,368/year Primary duties: Managing the workers and housekeeping program in medical facilities to uphold sanitary and orderly conditions. 11. Flight service manager Salary: $54,350/year Primary duties: Ensuring that flight attendants conform to personal appearance and preflight requirements; compiling flight reports. 12. Locomotive engineer Salary: $54,084/year Primary duties: Driving electric, diesel-electric or gas-turbine-electric trains to transport passengers or freight. 13. Interior aircraft assembly supervisor Salary: $53,606/year Primary duties: Supervising the process of assembling everything for the inside of an aircraft from mechanics to furniture. 14. Painting supervisor Salary: $51,977/year Primary duties: Overseeing all painting activities such as mixing paint, preparing surfaces before painting and applying decorative or protective finishes to various structures. 15. Gas plant operator Salary: $51,676/year Primary duties: Maintaining certain pressures in pipelines to produce and/or transport natural gas. 16. Payroll supervisor Salary: $51,410/year Primary duties: Managing employees working on company payroll, ensuring that pay calculation is in accordance with company policy, government regulations and tax codes. 17. Assembly supervisor Salary: $50,462/year Primary duties: Overseeing workers who use power tools and other equipment to assemble products. 18. Credit and collection supervisor Salary: $50,330/year Primary duties: Supervising employees engaged in the review of credit risks and collections; may also review client credit history to grant or deny extensions of credit. 19. Data control supervisor Salary: $50,310/year Primary duties: Managing data entry workers and assuming responsibility for those workers' tasks to be complete and accurate; may sometimes assist with assignments. 20. Reimbursement recovery specialist Salary: $49,246/year Primary duties: Negotiating cases where third-party liability reimbursement exists by investigating and identifying responsible third parties, then paying out those parties. Courtesy of CareerBuilder.com