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 West Virginia. 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 West Virginia.
Here’s a quick look at the top ten highest paying jobs in West Virginia:
- Operator And Truck Driver
- Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
- Owner/Operator
- Public Health Dentist
- Clinical Physician Assistant
- Emergency Medicine Specialist
- Contractor-Registered Nurse
- Family Practitioner
- Driver/Owner Operator
- Owner
How we determined the highest paid jobs in West Virginia 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 West Virginia.
In total, the team looked at the salary data set for all 14 jobs in West Virginia in order to identify those that get paid the most.
Detailed List Of Highest Paying Jobs In West Virginia
| Rank | Job Title | Average Salary | Entry Level Salary | # Of People |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Operator And Truck Driver | $150,663 | $93,000 | 4,311 |
| 2 | Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist | $149,905 | $98,000 | 1,178 |
| 3 | Owner/operator | $149,339 | $101,000 | 4,036 |
| 4 | Public Health Dentist | $147,197 | $91,000 | 1,056 |
| 5 | Clinical Physician Assistant | $144,483 | $92,000 | 1,097 |
| 6 | Emergency Medicine Specialist | $144,222 | $86,000 | 1,108 |
| 7 | Contractor-Registered Nurse | $133,754 | $84,000 | 1,338 |
| 8 | Family Practitioner | $128,053 | $73,000 | 1,083 |
| 9 | Driver/owner Operator | $127,128 | $69,000 | 4,162 |
| 10 | Owner | $108,058 | $74,000 | 1,193 |
| 11 | Advanced Practice Registered Nurse | $104,876 | $68,000 | 1,434 |
| 12 | Telemetry Registered Nurse | $100,572 | $58,000 | 1,448 |
| 13 | Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner | $93,236 | $51,000 | 1,329 |
| 14 | Registered Nurse In The Icu | $91,798 | $51,000 | 1,179 |
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.
