The top-paying jobs requiring an associate degree are air traffic controller (median pay of $108,040), construction manager ($83,860) and radiation therapist ($74,980). Jobs requiring a two-year degree are growing rapidly, lead by health care jobs.
Top job with 2-year degree: air traffic controller
December 28, 2012 by
About Joanne
The plethora of higher paying jobs in healthcare is a temporary phenomenon. As boomers die and as spending is reduced – either via Obamacare’s cost controls (ROFLMAO) or because we reprioritize due to economic failures, we will be reducing total expenditures on healthcare – we have to. Now, this cost cutting may happen at the high end rather than the low, and for the next 10-15 years these jobs may still be the best bang for the educational dollar.
I believe you can enlist to become an air traffic controller, back in the early 80s no college was required.