| Over the years, the once bustling city of | | | | analysts and software engineers are the next |
| Cleveland was a manufacturing megalomaniac. | | | | highest paid field. |
| Another glance to the "rust belt" yields a | | | | If you are seeking a job and you have less than |
| diversified landscape for business and professional | | | | a college degree, you aren't out of luck. Highest |
| growth. Cleveland is the home of fifteen Fortune | | | | on the list of workers without college education is |
| Five Hundred Companies, Progressive being the | | | | the industrial production managers, weighing in |
| largest. As a member of the unemployed army, | | | | around ninety thousand dollars. The second |
| you could be on the outside looking in, slightly | | | | highest paid job, coming in at a close eighty |
| intimidated. | | | | thousand dollars, is the position of supervisor and |
| Whether you find yourself job-hunting voluntarily | | | | manager of non-retail sales workers. Typically |
| or otherwise, you certainly have your work cut | | | | these jobs require you to work from the bottom |
| out for you. Don't despair. Defeatists will say that | | | | up, gleaning experience as you go. |
| "there aren't any jobs in Cleveland". This is simply | | | | If you are seeking an artistic, liberal art-driven |
| not true. | | | | position, or job, you are covered. The Cleveland |
| Right here in Cleveland, as we speak, there are | | | | Institute of Art is world renowned and has a |
| pages and pages of Help Wanted ads that you | | | | lengthy job posting board. In addition, art teachers |
| are probably qualified for. At this point, the three | | | | in the area can make a respectable living. |
| most popular fields are medicine, sales and | | | | Perhaps your love is the sports field; don't |
| manufacturing. In Cleveland, the three largest | | | | abandon this job hunt quite yet. There are a |
| hiring companies right now are the Cleveland Clinic, | | | | number of professional sports franchises that |
| University Hospitals System and the Federal and | | | | need qualified people like you. You could find a job |
| State Government. | | | | with the Browns, the Indians or even the |
| Cleveland is home to many facets of the | | | | Cavaliers, just to name a few. In fact, the |
| Cleveland Clinic. This means that it's not surprising | | | | Football Hall of Fame is located just forty five |
| that the top three highest paid salaries go to | | | | minutes south of Cleveland. Also, one little fun |
| people in the health care field. Anesthesiologists | | | | fact to use on your interview, the Cincinnati Red |
| and surgeons are pulling about two hundred | | | | Stockings was the very first professional baseball |
| thousand dollars. Obstetricians and gynecologists | | | | team in 1869. |
| round out the top three spots with almost two | | | | An overwhelming theme here is that education is |
| hundred thousand dollars. | | | | very important to hiring businesses. The Cleveland |
| With the impending presence of the Cleveland | | | | and State of Ohio state that at least 75% of the |
| Clinic, there is an overwhelming need and quest | | | | viable job growth will require some sort of training |
| for people with a medical background, or those | | | | beyond the high school diploma. If you have yet |
| who can be trained as such. For instance, the | | | | to complete you high school diploma, make it a |
| three most in demand jobs in Cleveland are in | | | | priority. There is less than a 19% growth rate for |
| order, registered nurses, physical therapists and | | | | workers will less than this. Put simply, to be |
| occupational therapists. | | | | competitive, workers will require more education |
| Of course, these specialized medical jobs come | | | | as well as on the job education help. As an |
| with a higher salary, typically topping out in the | | | | afterthought, a fun fact about Cleveland is that |
| upper ninety thousand dollars. Also amongst the | | | | Oberlin College was the first college to admit |
| highest paid jobs in Cleveland are the computer | | | | women in 1833. |
| field positions. For instance, computer systems | | | | |