Chicago has moved into the top 10 metro areas nationwide for high-paying jobs, according to U.S. News & World Report. It was 9th last year, up from a tie for 26th in 2018.
The magazine ranked best jobs in 17 categories, from best-paying and best jobs without a college degree to those in sectors such as technology and business.
For its best-pay list, the publication relied on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for 187 occupations. The Chicago Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes parts of Wisconsin and Indiana, was cited for being among the top five MSAs in 18 job designations. In 2018, it had just seven.
Many of those jobs, however, were not necessarily the highest-paying overall—or that prestigious. Chicago’s winners, reflecting its blue-collar and union traditions, included construction workers, bus drivers and garbage collectors—but also oral and maxillofacial surgeons, biochemists and petroleum engineers.
Other Illinois cities on the list were Champaign (55th), Peoria (58th), Rockford (63rd), Springfield (85th) and Kankakee (156th). San Francisco led the 2019 list with 77 best-paying categories.
Nearly half—46—of the magazine’s 100 best jobs were in health care, benefiting from a combination of high salaries and low unemployment. But for the third consecutive year, software developer topped the list, which takes into account non-monetary factors like growth potential and work-life balance.
In 2015, the Chicago area was 19th on the best-paying list. A magazine spokeswoman cautions against year-to-year comparisons because of "significant fluctuations in wages."
In any event, the uptick is reflected in other government stats.
The Census Bureau reported the share of workers making more than $200,000 annually in the metro area jumped to 9.2 percent after 2014 from 6.7 percent during the previous four years. Besides the impact of inflation, though, the results could be skewed by a disproportionate number of workers crossing the threshold.
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