What is the highest paying job title involved with business management?

Question

What rolls out the most dough once a business management degree is obtained? Hotel/Restaurant Management, Financial Manager, etc. What is it? I want something that will pay about or close to 6 figures. I'm not playing when I say this either. I'm looking for a better income job after college is over with. Better yet, the question I guess I should ask is how many people have a business management degree and make 6 figures at least a year, and how did you do it? Life without risk is hardly no reward. So blueprint your sucess to me. I might not go the same path, but I can take some knowledge and put it to my arsenal of expertise.

Answer 1

THE BEST JOBS THAT DONT REQUIRE MUCH EDUCATION IS SALES SALES SALES COMISSION BASED OF COURSE.

Answer 2

Hi there,

What a great question! Not sure you'll get a 6-figure right out of the college gate, but if you get the right experience, you can quickly get your 6-figure income.

Hotel/Rest Managers is NOT the way to go. They only make 60k, and once you start there, you're pigeon held there.

The highest manager-type job is called a Director. That's what you want to aim for.

Experience is what you need to make a 6-figure income. And I can only tell you my own path and the path of others I know. I got a degree in Molecular Biology, and I wound up a Training Manager at Microsoft and then Cisco (6-figure). My point is that experience is everything. I could not have been a hi-tech manager had I not been an Instructional Designer or trainer first. And you might not know what you LIKE doing until you are actually in the work force trying on different roles.

I highly recommend trying Program Management or Buisiness Analyst first. From there you can branch out and up into almost any area of an organization, and you can also try on a people-management role. But the best place to earn that big salary is a big company. Trust me. And what they want... what they interview for... is enthusiam and an innate passion for what you do.

The other responded is right, Sales or sales managers can make good money - but it's really competive and a dog-eat-dog environment, and not stable.

Most people I know got in somewhere at some level at a big corporation. Doesn't even matter what level you're hired at. To become a people manager in a corp, or a director, you need opportunity which you earn via your performance and ambition.

There are all kinds of teams/organizations in a company. You could go into Biz Development, Support, Organization Adoption, etc...

Also I suggest looking on Dice.com, Monster and Hotjobs. Enter the roles you're interested in to see what kind of qualifications they need. That's how I started. I saw what was needed from THEIR perspective, taught myself the tools/knowledge, and away I went.

Good luck!

PS - You dont HAVE to be a manager to have a 6-figure income. For example, most Program or Project Managers (note, NOT people managers) at Microsoft earn 100k or more.

Answer 3

Leverage the professional network from your undergraduate studies and look into investing in an MBA. Top-paying salaries will typically come from senior management job titles such as CIO, COO or CEO. Managing or Senior VP is also a good move, if you're concentrating your focus to finance or other professional area within your business.

Good luck!