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The 100 Highest Paying Jobs In Arkansas For 2024

By Chris Kolmar
Mar. 19, 2024

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 Arkansas. 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 Arkansas.

Here’s a quick look at the top ten highest paying jobs in Arkansas:

  1. Operator And Truck Driver
  2. Owner/Operator
  3. Clinical Physician Assistant
  4. Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
  5. Driver/Owner Operator
  6. Family Practitioner
  7. Emergency Medicine Specialist
  8. Engineering And Operations Director
  9. Senior Director Of Business Development
  10. Director, Business Development And Strategy

How we determined the highest paid jobs in Arkansas 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 Arkansas.

In total, the team looked at the salary data set for all 30 jobs in Arkansas in order to identify those that get paid the most.

Detailed List Of Highest Paying Jobs In Arkansas

Rank Job Title Average Salary Entry Level Salary # Of People
1 Operator And Truck Driver $180,027 $120,000 4,655
2 Owner/operator $153,003 $102,000 4,168
3 Clinical Physician Assistant $148,277 $94,000 1,451
4 Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist $144,974 $92,000 1,718
5 Driver/owner Operator $139,341 $80,000 4,334
6 Family Practitioner $139,210 $81,000 1,405
7 Emergency Medicine Specialist $136,198 $79,000 1,382
8 Engineering And Operations Director $135,920 $96,000 1,051
9 Senior Director Of Business Development $128,668 $91,000 1,083
10 Director, Business Development And Strategy $122,850 $84,000 1,052
11 Director, Software Quality Assurance $118,211 $75,000 1,052
12 Director Of Business Systems $117,468 $88,000 1,010
13 Public Health Dentist $115,329 $66,000 1,908
14 Director Of New Product Development $112,550 $72,000 1,022
15 Nurse Anesthetist $112,072 $65,000 1,257
16 Health Information Management Director $111,569 $77,000 1,182
17 Contractor-Registered Nurse $111,376 $70,000 1,966
18 Director Of User Experience $109,211 $71,000 3,653
19 Software Engineer/technical Lead $108,594 $82,000 1,113
20 Director Of Strategic Business Development $106,260 $66,000 1,050
21 Software Engineer-Team Lead $104,291 $79,000 1,089
22 Business Development Director $103,880 $63,000 1,067
23 Lead Development Engineer $102,794 $79,000 1,125
24 Software Development Engineer Lead $101,758 $78,000 1,163
25 Application Development Team Lead $98,921 $79,000 1,029
26 Business Services Director $94,674 $68,000 1,050
27 Director Of Project Management $93,506 $62,000 1,007
28 Director, International Business Development $93,377 $53,000 1,011
29 Information Technology Operations Leader $92,934 $67,000 1,068
30 Developer Support Engineer $90,361 $69,000 1,093
Editor’s Note: Article updated for 2024. This is our sixth time ranking the highest paying jobs in Arkansas

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Author

Chris Kolmar

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.

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