Austin Business Journal December 27, 2021 |CAREER&WORKPLACE|”Six-figure salaries way up in Austin and elsewhere-here’s who rakes in the dough” by Colin Pope “A manager title makes all the difference, ranking shows”
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Data from Stessa, suggests that “six-figure salaries clocked in the Austin area in 2020 rose 101% since 2015” making Austin “No. 15 on Stessa’s ranking of U.S. cities” by having experienced the highest percentage growth in the last five years. These salaries are held by 80,560 Central Texans or 8% of the population. The median annual wage in the Stessa report of $44,020 mirrors data from the U.S. Census. According to “GoBankingRates, “it takes $98,007 a year to live comfortably in Austin. The increase in higher salaries seems “to be sweeping the country” including San Antonio, Nashville, Phoenix and Las Vegas.
Jobs with six-figure salaries, according to Stessa, are; 1) General and operations managers, 2) Software developers, 3) Lawyers, 4) Financial Managers, 5) Computer and information systems managers, 6) Managers in health care, 7) Sales managers, 8) Pharmacists, 9) Marketing managers and 10) Nurse Practitioners.
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