What are some high paying jobs that are easy to get into?

What high paying jobs may one get with Chemistry and Physics, excluding medical jobs, and what do they pay?

• I am willing to work my way all the way to PhD level in any non-medical or environmental course. I simply wish to know of the jobs which will give me over $100k Australian without having to work in a medical area or have to live in an obscure mining location. Having a salary of $60+ within 2 years is preferable. Thanks in advance.

• Answer:

  Physicists in particular are in heavy demand for mathematical finance, which can easily pay over $100,000 U.S. immediately. For chemistry there's always the pharmaceutical industry. That I don't know too much about but I'm relatively certain that you can have a job for a pharmaceutical company which just involves figuring out chemical syntheses without having any direct exposure to the medical aspects. I've also heard that a lot of professors can make a lot of extra money by working as expert witnesses in trials.