 In today's video, we're going to be talking about the top five highest paying business careers in 2023. We're going to be going over the business careers that can potentially get you to seven figures per year. I'm sorry, did I hear that correctly? That's right. A lot of these careers I'm going to be talking about can potentially get you to that seven figure mark where you're making over a million dollars a year. So if you appreciate videos like this, go ahead and let me know by smashing that like button harder than salt poppy smashes people with his poll counter left. And let's jump into the video right now. All right. So number five on the list is one I've talked about on this channel before I even interviewed somebody who is a financial controller. You can look that up on the channel. I interviewed Bill Hannah, who is the financial controller. And basically this is a very high level accountant. So this is basically someone who oversees the accounting activities within a large company. Now, according to Glassdoor, finance controllers make about $149,000 a year. And according to LinkedIn, there's about 31,000 results for financial controller. So it is a relatively high level position, but there's a lot of opportunities available out there. And I can tell you at some of the higher level companies, you can definitely make a lot more than, you know, 150, $200,000 a year. You can definitely get into the 300 to 500,000 or even more range. Next one on the list is going to be a sales director. And there's actually a lot of different sales related positions where you can make it to that million dollar mark. But sales director is the one I'm choosing specifically for this video. And this is basically someone who manages or oversees the sales operations within a large company. Now, according to Glassdoor, sales directors make $221,000 a year. And I just want you to notice that the base pay is 114,000 and the additional pay is 107,000. So as you can see, a significant amount of their money actually comes from commissions and bonuses. Now, according to LinkedIn, there's about 21,000 job results for sales directors. And if you want to see an example of somebody who is well on their way to hitting that million dollar a year mark, I actually interviewed somebody on this channel. His name is Antoine. He actually is another YouTuber. And last year he made over $540,000. This year he told me he's likely going to hit 600 or 700,000 a year. So I would not be surprised at all if he hits that million dollar mark within the next few years. Now he actually started off just working in technology in general, and then he shifted over to sales. And the reason he did this is because he realized that his hard work would be much better rewarded in a position like that. Sales and marketing positions tend to be more of a meritocracy, where if you work hard and you get better results, you're going to get a nice percentage of those results. Whereas in many other positions, if you work hard and get better results, you might get like a 5% raise or a 10% raise, even though you might have made the company an extra million dollars. Now if you're interested in how to get into tech sales, what Antoine recommends is this company called Course Careers. I've talked about them quite a bit on this channel. They have gotten insane results. I actually have an entire playlist of people who have gotten jobs using Course Careers. You can check them out. They actually have a free training for tech sales. I'll put that down in the description as well as the pinned comment below. They have a more advanced training that also gets you guaranteed interviews with their partner companies. And if you choose to use that, I have a coupon code Shane50, which you can check out down in the description below as well. Number three on the list is going to be an executive. So these are basically the highest ranking individuals within an organization and they oversee everything else. And not only are they responsible for the day-to-day operations, but they're actually responsible for growing the company. So they're going to be talking a lot about the direction that they take the company. Now according to Glassdoor, senior executives make about $137,000 a year. And according to LinkedIn, there's 55,000 results when you type in senior executive in jobs. Now that's just the average or the median, but there are many senior executive positions out there that can make well over a million dollars a year. So for instance, Jeremy Burton made $9.7 million. Alan Coburg earned about $9.5 million. And Stephen Chambers made about $7.6 million. An interesting thing is these are executives, but they're actually not the leader of the company. They're not the CEO. So you can actually make these insane numbers without having to be the number one person in charge. The next one on the list is going to be many different financial related career paths. Now the number one of course is going to be hedge fund manager, but there's actually a lot of other career paths out there that are phenomenal as well. For instance, private equity, venture capital, investment banking, etc. Now these types of jobs I will warn you are pretty much 100% for A type personalities, people who love working like 80 to 120 hours per week and people who like competitive environment. But with that being said, if you are one of those people, finance can be a great option for you. Now according to Glassdoor, hedge fund managers make about $135,000 a year. And there's this genius mathematician named James Simons, who made $3.4 billion last year. So yeah, you can make a lot of money as a hedge fund manager. And number one on the list will be no surprise to anybody out there. It's going to be CEO or chief executive officer. Now there's two ways to become a CEO. The first way is to start your own company and become a CEO. The second way is maybe somebody started a company and they either retire, they don't want to do it anymore or they sell the company, etc. And you take on that position of CEO. But either way you are in control of the future and success of the company. It is a high pressure position. You have to have a multitude of different skills to be a successful CEO. You can't just be good at like one thing. You have to be good at like 10 different things. So it's definitely not for everybody. But with that being said, being a business owner, especially if it's like a certain type of business, isn't that hard. But being a CEO that makes like billions of dollars a year is definitely going to be difficult. If you look up CEO and Glassdoor, they make about $401,000 a year. If you look it up on LinkedIn, you're going to see 26,000 results for jobs. And of course, Elon Musk was the highest paid CEO last year at 6.6 billion. And in 2020, his net worth grew by an absolutely ridiculous over $100 billion. I believe it was 110 billion. And then in 2021, he gained another 90 billion. But then of course, recently, billionaires have been losing money. And then I believe there was one day where he actually earned $36 billion, which is just, I mean, what can you say, that's ridiculous. Now, if you're interested in becoming a CEO or just making a lot of money in general, the most common career path that millionaires and billionaires went down is actually sales, right? That is the number one most common career path in the past of billionaires and millionaires. This has been well studied, well documented. And if you're interested in getting into sales, like I said, check out that free training down below and check out that interview that I did with Antoine right here.