highest paying jobs in texas
After scrounging through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, we discovered that Anesthesiologists are the highest paid people in Texas. Everyoneâs favorite dentists place number 12 on the list of highest paid professions in Texas.
1 The highest-paying non-healthcare jobs are chief executives ($78.13), airline pilots/copilots/flight engineers ($66.00), engineering managers ($60.33), geoscientists ($57.45), and petroleum engineers ($56.59).  Far and away the best job on this chart is petroleum engineers. It has grown by 33%, adding almost 4,000 jobs in the past five years. Even more impressive is its location quotient (LQ) of 6.49, which means that these engineering jobs are more than six times as concentrated in Texas as they are in other states.