Ever wonder who gets paid the most? Or how much your dentist makes for all the pain they put you through?
We had that same burning desire to know more about the highest paid professions in Mississippi. And if you can’t tell by that sentence, we’re a bit of what you’d call data nerds.
After the data science team did a thorough analysis of the data, we discovered that Operator And Truck Driver are the highest paid people in Mississippi.
Here’s a quick look at the top ten highest paying jobs in Mississippi:
- Operator And Truck Driver
- Family Practitioner
- Owner/Operator
- Public Health Dentist
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
- Emergency Medicine Specialist
- Clinical Physician Assistant
- Driver/Owner Operator
- Contractor-Registered Nurse
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner
How we determined the highest paid jobs in Mississippi For 2024
To create our salary estimates, Zippia starts with data published in publicly available sources such as the most recently released data on March 2024 from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Foreign Labor Certification Data Center (FLC), Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and others. The data science team then supplements that data by continuously scanning through millions of job postings each day to find published salaries. We match these published salaries to the companies, locations, and job titles in other datasets. Finally, the data science team calculates a weighted average of these inputs to produce an estimated salary for the particular job title in Mississippi.
In total, the team looked at the salary data set for all 11 jobs in Mississippi in order to identify those that get paid the most.
Detailed List Of Highest Paying Jobs In Mississippi
| Rank | Job Title | Average Salary | Entry Level Salary | # Of People |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Operator And Truck Driver | $184,617 | $124,000 | 3,334 |
| 2 | Family Practitioner | $157,148 | $97,000 | 1,164 |
| 3 | Owner/operator | $154,043 | $102,000 | 3,390 |
| 4 | Public Health Dentist | $144,408 | $88,000 | 1,384 |
| 5 | Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist | $142,427 | $89,000 | 1,534 |
| 6 | Emergency Medicine Specialist | $141,368 | $84,000 | 1,186 |
| 7 | Clinical Physician Assistant | $137,887 | $86,000 | 1,139 |
| 8 | Driver/owner Operator | $135,256 | $76,000 | 3,730 |
| 9 | Contractor-Registered Nurse | $121,378 | $76,000 | 1,239 |
| 10 | Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner | $96,212 | $52,000 | 1,189 |
| 11 | Critical Care Nurse | $94,119 | $51,000 | 1,482 |
Author
Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.
