While it's no secret that professions in information technology are a terrific way to go ahead financially, cutting-edge work in particular vital areas attracts even greater pay. Consider cyber security and information security. In this field, the risks are so high that a chief information security officer (CISO) in the Bay Area might make $380,000.
According to BusinessInsider.com, the following ten high-paying IT occupations pay between $130,000 and $164,000:
$131,300 for an information security engineer
$137,400 for a DevOps engineer
$144,400 for enterprise architect
$145,000 for technical program manager
$145,400 for a software architect
$149,000 for an application architect
$153,000 Infrastructure Architect
Manager of software development — $153,300
$154,800 for data warehouse architect
$163,500 for a software engineering manager
Don't forget about "big data." Businesses are investing in people with the skills to develop systems that transform that data into "actionable information for strategy-setting, decision-making, and innovation," according to global human resource consulting firm Robert Half, which reports the median salary for big data engineers is $155,500.