The 100 Highest Paying Jobs In Washington For 2023

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 Washington. 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 Chief Medical Officer are the highest paid people in Washington.

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

How we determined the highest paid jobs in Washington For 2023

To create our salary estimates, Zippia starts with data published in publicly available sources such as the most recently released data on March 2023 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 Washington.

In total, the team looked at the salary data set for all 1669 jobs in Washington in order to identify those that get paid the most.

Detailed List Of Highest Paying Jobs In Washington

Rank	Job Title	Average Salary	Entry Level Salary	# Of People
1	Chief Medical Officer	$222,514	$171,000	1,043
2	Senior Vice President, Engineering	$221,545	$171,000	1,335
3	Director, Product Engineering	$213,091	$166,000	1,623
4	Vice President, Products & Marketing	$208,069	$158,000	1,642
5	Finance Services Director	$207,300	$160,000	1,931
6	Director Of Manufacturing Engineering	$203,424	$155,000	1,408
7	Senior Vice President-Operations	$202,820	$146,000	1,579
8	Staff Physician	$202,154	$146,000	1,139
9	Acute Care Physician	$201,236	$144,000	1,207
10	Senior Director, Product	$200,731	$154,000	2,214
11	Vice President, Product Management	$199,175	$148,000	3,134
12	Primary Care Physician	$198,807	$141,000	1,314
13	Executive Vice President	$195,146	$136,000	1,432
14	Senior Director, Product Management	$194,787	$147,000	3,181
15	Vice President, Field Operations	$193,362	$134,000	1,857
16	Senior Vice President Of Marketing	$192,753	$137,000	1,585
17	Operations Vice President	$192,037	$137,000	1,645
18	Director Information Technology Infrastructure	$191,276	$141,000	1,289
19	President & Chief Operating Officer	$191,035	$132,000	1,481
20	Senior Director Of Engineering	$190,135	$136,000	1,338
21	Executive Vice President Marketing	$189,095	$131,000	1,893
22	Vice President-Project Management	$188,302	$133,000	2,025
23	Executive Director, Information Technology	$187,684	$133,000	2,117
24	Principal Hardware Engineer	$187,411	$141,000	1,776
25	Chief Administrative Officer	$186,027	$132,000	1,391
26	Senior Director, Product Marketing	$185,793	$138,000	2,042
27	Vice President Information Systems	$185,548	$129,000	1,917
28	Chief Technology Officer	$184,022	$128,000	1,731
29	Executive Vice President Of Sales	$183,696	$134,000	1,686
30	Medical Staff Physician	$181,894	$123,000	1,101
31	Product Management Director	$181,890	$136,000	2,797
32	Application Development Director	$180,807	$138,000	1,437
33	Vice President, Marketing & Development	$180,804	$125,000	1,744
34	Chief Architect	$180,399	$127,000	1,137
35	Vice President Product Development	$180,283	$126,000	2,427
36	Vice President Of Marketing & Communications	$180,167	$125,000	1,766
37	Director, Hardware Engineering	$180,117	$134,000	1,148
38	Marketing Vice President	$179,648	$128,000	1,531
39	Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist	$179,076	$121,000	4,261
40	President & Chief Technology Officer	$178,718	$124,000	1,961
41	Director Of Software Development	$178,417	$127,000	3,090
42	Senior Hardware Engineer	$177,095	$133,000	1,038
43	Director Of Service & Engineering	$177,058	$127,000	1,152
44	Pain Management Physician	$176,793	$116,000	1,214
45	Engineering Director	$175,580	$124,000	1,255
46	Director Of Applications Engineering	$175,372	$124,000	1,257
47	Senior Director, Product Development	$175,152	$120,000	2,290
48	Group Product Manager	$174,984	$128,000	2,444
49	Director Of Account Management	$174,935	$122,000	2,272
50	Director, Software Quality Assurance	$174,339	$119,000	1,258
51	Principal Developer	$174,151	$128,000	1,400
52	Manager, Hardware Engineering	$174,095	$132,000	1,388
53	Director, Managing Consultant	$174,034	$130,000	1,112
54	Vice President-Products	$173,998	$118,000	1,974
55	General Surgery Physician Assistant	$173,816	$113,000	1,309
56	Principal Software Engineer	$173,680	$126,000	7,149
57	Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technology Officer	$173,048	$119,000	1,570
58	Senior Director Of Marketing	$172,908	$123,000	1,020
59	Vice President Of Information Technology	$172,478	$117,000	1,473
60	Director Of Network Engineering	$171,842	$122,000	1,256
61	Senior Director Of Business Development	$171,440	$124,000	1,148
62	Vice President, Business Operations	$171,294	$119,000	1,898
63	Alliance Manager	$171,137	$124,000	1,855
64	Senior Software Engineer Manager	$170,833	$122,000	5,116
65	Vice President	$170,607	$119,000	1,043
66	Software Testing Manager	$170,177	$119,000	3,384
67	Director, Applications	$169,932	$130,000	1,397
68	Vice President, Software Development	$169,532	$127,000	5,674
69	Product Director	$168,750	$119,000	2,192
70	Vice President Technology Services	$168,609	$119,000	1,643
71	Regional Sales Vice President	$168,483	$115,000	1,020
72	Engineering Services Manager	$167,774	$120,000	2,276
73	Director Systems Development	$166,967	$123,000	1,474
74	Head Of Marketing	$166,843	$115,000	1,296
75	Corporate Executive	$166,792	$114,000	1,032
76	Director, Global Marketing	$166,785	$116,000	1,542
77	Director Of Business Systems	$166,545	$127,000	1,651
78	Vice President Of Sales & Operations	$165,903	$116,000	1,804
79	Senior Development Manager	$165,462	$124,000	2,220
80	Vice President & General Manager	$165,051	$108,000	2,171
81	Senior Product Line Manager	$165,019	$119,000	2,683
82	Senior Piping Designer	$164,432	$118,000	1,174
83	Customer Service Director	$164,257	$116,000	1,697
84	Design Engineering Manager	$164,116	$118,000	1,784
85	Consulting Services Director	$163,538	$122,000	1,051
86	Senior Engineering Manager	$163,488	$119,000	1,537
87	Customer Operations Director	$163,422	$116,000	1,328
88	Design Verification Engineer	$162,803	$121,000	1,002
89	Senior Manager, Product Management	$162,684	$118,000	3,484
90	Senior Software Manager	$162,419	$114,000	2,502
91	Assistant Director Of Information Technology	$162,019	$114,000	1,114
92	Vice President Of Engineering	$161,708	$107,000	1,472
93	Engineering Group Manager	$161,561	$111,000	1,390
94	Principal Product Manager	$161,197	$117,000	2,501
95	Senior Business Manager	$161,185	$114,000	1,533
96	Senior Product Engineering Manager	$161,035	$112,000	3,371
97	Executive Vice President Of Operations	$160,684	$103,000	2,524
98	Principal Firmware Engineer	$160,651	$123,000	1,124
99	Chief Executive Officer	$160,529	$105,000	1,741
100	Software Leader	$160,088	$116,000	5,391

Editor’s Note: Article updated for 2023. This is our sixth time ranking the highest paying jobs in Washington

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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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