The 100 Highest Paying Jobs In Louisiana For 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 Louisiana. 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 Louisiana.

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

How we determined the highest paid jobs in Louisiana 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 Louisiana.

In total, the team looked at the salary data set for all 44 jobs in Louisiana in order to identify those that get paid the most.

Detailed List Of Highest Paying Jobs In Louisiana

Rank	Job Title	Average Salary	Entry Level Salary	# Of People
1	Operator And Truck Driver	$168,502	$108,000	4,889
2	Executive Director, Information Technology	$168,488	$114,000	1,017
3	Owner/operator	$154,820	$102,000	4,284
4	Family Practitioner	$151,134	$92,000	2,262
5	Emergency Medicine Specialist	$147,569	$89,000	2,203
6	Director Of Engineering, Quality & Program Management	$140,920	$97,000	1,177
7	Driver/owner Operator	$138,039	$79,000	4,625
8	Engineering And Operations Director	$133,769	$93,000	1,063
9	Contractor-Registered Nurse	$133,688	$85,000	2,640
10	Public Health Dentist	$128,638	$76,000	2,680
11	Director Of Account Management	$124,772	$82,000	1,132
12	Executive Director/chief Executive Officer	$116,739	$68,000	1,138
13	Clinical Physician Assistant	$115,746	$69,000	2,353
14	Engineering Production Operations Director	$115,312	$74,000	1,082
15	Customer Service Director	$113,052	$76,000	1,530
16	Director Of Information Technology Security	$112,980	$76,000	1,002
17	Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist	$111,306	$65,000	2,934
18	Health Information Management Director	$111,032	$72,000	1,224
19	Business Continuity Management Director	$110,272	$66,000	1,050
20	Director, Technical Operations	$110,240	$75,000	1,006
21	Data Operations Director	$109,228	$68,000	1,060
22	Business Services Director	$108,155	$76,000	1,057
23	Director Of Business Systems	$107,970	$80,000	1,000
24	Executive Director Business Development	$107,809	$68,000	1,230
25	Director Of Marketing And Product Management	$107,794	$68,000	1,040
26	Business Unit Director	$107,049	$71,000	1,040
27	Director, Marketing & Product Development	$106,136	$71,000	1,032
28	Director Of User Experience	$104,341	$66,000	3,110
29	Director Of Project Management	$103,211	$67,000	1,011
30	General Manager/director	$102,215	$65,000	1,390
31	Clinical Data Management Associate Director	$102,165	$62,000	1,103
32	Director/manager	$101,406	$66,000	1,209
33	Executive Director Of Operations	$101,224	$63,000	1,136
34	Marketing Operations Director	$98,435	$58,000	1,010
35	Agricultural Safety And Health Program Director	$98,077	$65,000	1,107
36	Customer Service Senior Engineer	$96,245	$65,000	1,491
37	Director Of Clinical Operations	$95,997	$62,000	1,057
38	Business Unit Manager	$94,841	$58,000	1,223
39	Customer Service Senior Manager	$94,212	$50,000	1,519
40	Head Manager	$91,789	$54,000	1,120
41	Consultant General Manager	$91,222	$55,000	1,268
42	Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner	$91,123	$50,000	1,922
43	Director Of Operations And Finance	$90,875	$55,000	1,084
44	Director Of Retail Operations	$90,711	$57,000	1,087

Editor’s Note: Article updated for 2024. This is our sixth time ranking the highest paying jobs in Louisiana

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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