The highest-paying job varies across the United States.

Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we found the highest-paying occupation in every state and DC.

Doctors and surgeons top the ranking in almost every state.

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Doctors make a lot of money across the United States.

Using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Occupational Employment Statistics program, we found the job in each state with the highest average annual salary as of May 2019, the latest available data. For our calculations, we considered jobs employing at least 1,000 people in the state for which the BLS reported annual mean salaries.

Medical jobs are extremely common among well-compensated occupations. Various types of doctors were the highest-paying occupation in 39 states and DC.

Doctors and other medical professionals are currently on the frontlines of the novel coronavirus pandemic where they have been treating infected patients and providing other medical assistance over the past few months.

Because so many of these jobs were the highest paying in multiple states, we've arranged the list in alphabetical order of the 11 jobs that appear on the above map. We've also included a list of the states for which that job is the highest paying, along with the job's average annual salary in those states: