It seems as if everyone is making a career shift in the new year. In fact, 90% of professionals around the world are open to fresh job opportunities.
A new LinkedIn salary report report has good news: The healthcare, technology and legal industries are hiring. Even better news? The hundreds, in some cases thousands, of openings are for jobs that pay well.
Read on for a list of the 20 highest-paying occupations in the U.S., including job openings, to help you figure out your next career move.
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'The Rise of the Platform Marketer' panel presented by Merkle during Advertising Week 2015
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Christiana Harms is a Nurse Anesthetist
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Peter Stearne is a patent attorney
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Facebook Product Management Director Deborah Liu speaks at the F8 summit
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Jeff Barber is the director of engineer services at Furniture Row Racing
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Dr. Sanjukta Mohanta is a dentist at the Health n' Smiles dental clinic
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Vitaliy Lvin is a software engineer at Google
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Uhaul General Counsel, Larry DeRespino (left) and Uhaul Assistant General Counsel, Steve Taub (right)
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Psychologist Peter Langman
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A nurse station inside the Clinical Decision Unit (CDU) at Kaiser Permanente's Capitol Hill Medical Center in Washington, DC
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Dr. Thomas Tesoriero and nurse Rowena Shea
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Dr. Kona Williams is a forensic pathologist
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Dr. Andrew Wollowitz, a director of emergency medicine at Montefiore Medical Center
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Dr. Mayur Jayarao, resident surgeon, left, and neurosurgeon Dr. Jonathan Slotkin, right
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A anesthesiologist prepares a kidney donor in the operating room for a kidney transplant at Johns Hopkins Hospital
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Dr. Bruce Wollman, a Kaiser Permanente radiologist
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Dr. Christopher Cannon is a cardiologist at Brigham and Woman's Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School
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1. Cardiologist
Median Base Salary: $356,000
Openings: 150+ jobs
For more, see the 20 highest-paying jobs that don't require grad school.
Vitaliy Lvin is a software engineer at Google
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