Do You Know The Top Paying Jobs in Iowa?

Do you work to live or live to work? It should be a good balance.  If you’re working all the time, that’s not good. Golden Girls reruns don’t watch themselves and the girls will be quite aware you’re not keeping up with them.  If you’re in Iowa doing one of these jobs, they are paying a bit better than other gigs in the state.  ZipRecruiter keeps track of this kind of thing and then I interpret the data after asking someone way smarter than me to interpret the data.  They tell me what the data says, and I shake my head yes like I know what they’re talking about.   

 What are the top-paying jobs in Iowa? 

1) Dedicated Owner Operator – I wasn’t sure if I should add this because what if you’re not so dedicated?  Your income according to ZipRecruiter can vary between $60,054 - $242,037 per year.   

2)  If you have the ability to remember important things like math and science and other engineery-type stuff, Engineering pays quite well in Iowa $109, 400 - $162,500 per year. 

3) You may not know this but there are people out there who want to steal your info, like, a lot of them.  It’s crazy the number of emails you get that are full of trouble and trolls out there trying to break into your private life and get your personal information.  That’s why Cyber Security professionals in Iowa make $104,300 - $140,900 per year. 

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4) Next up is a field that I hold in high regard, nursing.  These are people who are on the front lines.  Nurse practitioners get paid a bit more and have advanced education and specialized training, which allows them to make higher-level clinical decisions. They can diagnose patients, create treatment plans, prescribe treatments, order and interpret diagnostic tests, and provide primary and specialty care services.  If you’re doing that in Iowa expect a salary range of $101,400 - $140,900 per year. 

With all those numbers being thrown around what is the average income of Iowans?  That number is $49,972, or roughly $24 per hour.