25 Jobs That Pay Women Over $1,000 Per Week

Blackcareers.com, a division of CareerBuilder.com, published an article titled: 25 Best-Paying Jobs for Women. As usual these jobs require advanced degrees, and as usual many of these jobs are in the Computer Science and Engineering arena.

With the loss of manufacturing jobs in America, our economy is steadily switching to a "College Economy"; which means that by 2010 most jobs will require at a minimum a two year college degree.

The article discussed the diparity in pay that still exists between men and women, but that gap is getting smaller.

Below you will find the top 12 best paying jobs from the article earning a nice $1,000 per week. The list is sorted in descending order by highest to lowest pay pay.

Pharmacists

• Women - Median weekly earnings: $1,647
• Men - Median weekly earnings: $1,914    
• Women's earnings as percent of men's in same occupation: 86.1%

Chief executives  

• Women - Median weekly earnings: $1,603
• Men - Median weekly earnings: $1,999    
• Women's earnings as percent of men's in same occupation:  80.2%

Lawyers    

• Women - Median weekly earnings: $1,509
• Men - Median weekly earnings: $1,875    
• Women's earnings as percent of men's in same occupation:  80.5%

Computer software engineers 

• Women - Median weekly earnings: $1,351
• Men - Median weekly earnings: $1,555    
• Women's earnings as percent of men's in same occupation:  86.9%

Computer and information systems managers      

• Women - Median weekly earnings: $1,260
• Men - Median weekly earnings: $1,641    
• Women's earnings as percent of men's in same occupation:  76.8%

Physicians and surgeons

• Women - Median weekly earnings: $1,230
• Men - Median weekly earnings: $1,911    
• Women's earnings as percent of men's in same occupation:  64.4%

Management analysts   

• Women - Median weekly earnings: $1,139
• Men - Median weekly earnings: $1,391    
• Women's earnings as percent of men's in same occupation:  81.9%

Human resources managers   

• Women - Median weekly earnings: $1,137
• Men - Median weekly earnings: $1,433    
• Women's earnings as percent of men's in same occupation:  79.3%

Speech-language pathologists

• Women - Median weekly earnings: $1,124
• Men - Median weekly earnings: *  
• Women's earnings as percent of men's in same occupation:  **

Computer and mathematical occupations   

• Women - Median weekly earnings: $1,088
• Men - Median weekly earnings: $1,320    
• Women's earnings as percent of men's in same occupation:  82.4%

Computer scientists and systems analysts  

• Women - Median weekly earnings: $1,082
• Men - Median weekly earnings: $1,240    
• Women's earnings as percent of men's in same occupation:  87.3%

Physician assistants     

• Women - Median weekly earnings: $1,077
• Men - Median weekly earnings: ** 
• Women's earnings as percent of men's in same occupation:  **

The complete list can be found here: http://www.blackcareers.com/ViewArticle.aspx?articleid=123

Enjoy,

Julius