What are some jobs that have to do with sciences?

What jobs pay well in the computer sciences field? (For lack of a better word)?

• Now in 2 years I will be done with high school, and moving on to college I suppose. As a career I am thinking now about doing something in the "computer sciences" field. ...show more

• Answer:

  Architecture and management. Development (programming) is fairly low pay. There is a lot of foreign competition and honestly, the work is not that hard. The best pay is in management and in fact, IT managers make more money than anybody but the CEO and other VP's at a lot of small to mid-tier firms. Something around $110k to $140k a year right now. Within Com-Sci, you have several fields: Development (Programming & Projects) Infrastructure (Machines & Networks) Engineering (Chip and computer design) Data (Database, Architecture) Analytics (Using computers to solve math problems) Engineering and Data pay the best, followed by Infrastructure then Development. Data is kind of odd becucase people misuse the titles a lot. Data Analyst is a low-pay job that is actually a type of keypunch or programmer. Database Administrator is a relatively good pay job (~$70k) that requires a fairly good mind for organizing information and finding problems. Data Architecture is the design and develpment of information and data storage and is a rather challenging field- it's hard to find people with a good mind at the multi-dimensional problem solving needed to be a great architect. True Analytics (Econometrics, Statisticians, Actuaries and SAS Programmers) are very well paid. Salaries start around $100k. Soft analytics (Financial Analytics, System Control) has starting pay in the $60s to $80s, so it's not bad either. These people use computer science extensively, particularly programming knowledge and the ability to order and organize information. However they are not "IT People" if you ask "IT People". Not sure why, it's a culture thing I think.