Raleigh on top 10 for best paying jobs

By ABC11
RALEIGH, N.C.

The company says it studied the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas by median pay, cost of living, number of jobs, and the unemployment rate.

It defines high-paying jobs as managers, executives, software developers, engineers, lawyers, judges, doctors, surgeons and psychiatrists.

Here's the top ten:

  1. Salt Lake City
  2. San-Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif.
  3. Houston-Sugarland-Baytown
  4. Austin-Round Rock, Texas
  5. Provo-Orem, Utah
  6. Ogden-Clearfield, Utah
  7. Raleigh-Cary
  8. Omaha-Council Bluffs, Nebraska-Iowa
  9. Des Moines-West Des Moines, Iowa
  10. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue

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