The top 100 paying companies in the US by raw salaries are concentrated medicine, law, tech and finance.
It's no surprise that ambitious people flock to these disciplines.
Top paying one is OSF Medical Group where Cardiothoracic Surgeons make $750k.
Cardiac and neurosurgeons are the two highest paying professions (by base comp).
The number of tech companies, by employee count, makes up ~70% of the dataset. Much higher %age when N>>100.
Worth noting:
- Aggregates across 11 years. Market pay has changed
- Aggs across diff levels in the same role
- Aggs across diff functions in the same company
- Restricted to H-1B holders / immigrants
- Doesn't account for bonus / equity
- Minimum 100 records per company