The Ten Most Overpaid Jobs In The U.S.

misbach writes "Here is what the 'compensation experts' have to say are the ten most overpaid jobs [original article at CBS MarketWatch]. 'Almost no one in America would admit to being overpaid, but many of us take home bloated paychecks far beyond what's deserved. 'Fair compensation' is a relative term, yet human-resource consultants and executive headhunters agree some jobs command excessive compensation that can't be explained by labor supply-and-demand imbalances.'"

@subscribers

[Anonymous Coward]

thanks for slashdotting the site already, you ugly hairy subscribers

slashdotted

[dtfinch]

So much for alwayson-network

They missed one.

[Joseph Vigneau]

AlwaysOn Network Web Site Architect/Administrator

Without reading the article

[Bendebecker]

My guess at number #1 has got to be CEO of a major corp.

Slashdotted already?

[edwardd]

I mean, come on! are we all that afraid that WE'RE overpaid?

Re:#1 Most Overpaid Jobs

[bluethundr]

DOH! must...hit...preview!!!

Meant to say, I think I know the #1 most overpaid Jobs... [usatoday.com]

Kind of an ironic name for a website...

[ahem]

...given the current slashdotting.

http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id= 14 77_0_7_0_C

Heaven Forbid

[Anonymous Coward]

Heaven forbid that we just list the 10 things on slashdot... guess that would be asking too much.

What about HR people?

[tangledweb]

Is it too late to nominate human resource consultant to the list?

Re:Most overpaid job?

[Aardpig]

First poster!

Huh? First Poster is the most overpaid job? That's news to me, I thought the pay was pretty lousy. Which is a pity, since /. would clearly disintegrate without the terrific work of those unsung heroes, the First Post ACs.

and the top two most over paid jobs are

[Anonymous Coward]

#1 web administrator of www.alwayson-network.com

#2 slashdot reader who spend all day reloading /.

text in case of /.ing

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Re:Most overpaid job?

[Dutchmaan]

I can see the first poster as being most over moderated job.

Article Mirrored

[TrekCycling]

Here's the list.

#1 - Professional Athletes
#2 - CEO
#3 - CTO
#4 - CIO
#5 - Chairman of the board
#6 - Generic Executives
#7 - CEO
#8 - CEO
#9 - Guys at think tanks that produce articles like this
#10 - CEO

Talk about the pot and the freakin' kettle

[Glamdrlng]

...yet human-resource consultants and executive headhunters agree some jobs command excessive compensation that can't be explained by labor supply-and-demand imbalances.

You gotta be fscking kidding. Did the HR consultants and executive headhunters point out that their own astronomical salaries can't be explained by anyone? Anyone that is, except for other HR consultants and executive headhunters...

Ironic

[thomas.galvin]

alwayson-network.com is a wonderfully ironic name for a webserver that just got slashdotted...

Re:The article (Thanks /.!)

[Gherald]

> Once again, with formatting this time :P

Karma whoring at its best ;-)

Re:Slashdotted already?

[erice]

I mean, come on! are we all that afraid that WE'RE overpaid?

Not me. I'm unemployed.

Suggestion...

[GreggBert]

I would have thought that "Microsoft O/S Security Assurance Specialist" would have made the list. No ?

Re:@subscribers

[TheOtherAgentM]

Does anyone else find it amusing that the site that got /.ed is alwayson-network.com and it is down?

Re:I don;t know about 9

[0x20]

As fast as an elk? Is that some kind of Canadian measure of velocity? Can you get a speeding ticket for going 2 elks in a school zone? What is the speed of light in elks?

Re:I don;t know about 9

[geoffspear]

Which is why I say it fuels consumerism, same thing in as many words. ;) (I cancelled my cable as there is so little useful information on TV these days)

Then it's probably time to cancel your net access too.

Re:I don;t know about 9

[devphaeton]

Too bad the computer is what does the major work now on any modern jet-liner. You don't even need the pilot to land it anymore... Basically they are there as a backup to the computer system now.
And pretty soon, with a few more advances in AI, we'll also have computers with the attitude of "oh, fuck it" when the left engine fails.

Glaring Omission

[gmhowell]

One glaring omission: operators/'editors' of popular internet sites. A certain one has maintainers/editors who:

ignore user requests
play games all day
don't 'edit' anything
don't read submissions
don't read their own site
don't properly test proposed site changes
offend and namecall users

No specific sites in mind

(goodbye karma...)

Re:I don;t know about 9

[MarchHare]

It's a canadian unit of velocity AND mass. (So now that I think about it it's a unit of momentum). It's defined as the momentum of your average elk running at the average maximum elk speed. A football player with all his gear does about 0.2 elk.

Re:I don;t know about 9

[Anonymous Coward]

What is the speed of light in elks?
What do you mean? An African or European elk?

Re:Pet peeve about posts on /.

[R2.0]

You're new here, aren't you?

Re:slashdotted

[Heywood Yabuzof]

#11: Webmaster at alwayson-network.com

Number 10 is

[Alomex]

Wedding photographer.

Surely the most overpaid job in the world is supermodel photographer.

I would gladly do the job for ten grand, so long as I can pay in instalments...

Re:I don;t know about 9

[Have Blue]

What is the speed of light in elks?

Zero. Elks are opaque.

Re:Where is Gates on this list?

[Zathrus]

I'd say he's being paid a bit too much with that track record.

So taking a company from two employees with their only product being a BASIC interpreter for a home-built computer (the Altair) to an industry dominating software company that provides software for 95% of all PCs in the world is "underperforming" by your standard?

I guess to get "average" he would have to enslave all of humanity and force them to build his pyramid for him. (And, of course, some of the more rabidly vapid /.ers will say he's already done this).

Re:I don;t know about 9

[_J_]

Now that's funny because a german kid once referred to me as "ein grosse elk." The danger in using elks as a form of measurement is variation between jurisdictions; Elk is another word for moose in Europe while it refers to a large deer, also called a Wapiti, in North America. So this kid was calling me a big moose while I thought he was calling me a large, red deer.

However, since this is a Canadian measure Elk should refer to the deer and not the moose.

On another note, for the purposes of accident insurance, deer are considere flying objects in Canada.

IMHO, as per.

J:)

What do you mean?

[raehl]

It's the "Always-on Network", not the "Always-able-to-serve-pages Network".

Re:I don;t know about 9

[jovlinger]

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. ...
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.

Grouch Marx, what a cad!

Ultimate in being overpaid

[DownTheLongRoad]

I'm collecting unemployment. Typical day includes sleeping till 3pm them playing Allied Assault for a few hours.

Re:I don;t know about 9

[KILNA]

I'm upset that us yanks are still using Imperial Elk instead of Metric.

Re:I don;t know about 9

[AbbyNormal]

You are absoultely wrong. Advertising does not corrupt everything it touches. Take me for example.
Excuse me a second.

Sluuurrrrp. Mmmm...Nothing like a nice chilled Coca Cola Classic (TM) to calm the nerves.

Where was I? Oh right, advertising. So what if advertising is everywhere.

Re:I don;t know about 9

[QuantumRiff]

One minor correction, Pilot error is not the most dangerous thing about flying, Gravity is!..

Re:I don;t know about 9

[corbettw]

"On another note, for the purposes of accident insurance, deer are considere flying objects in Canada."

Not surprising, given your proximity to the North Pole.

Most Overpaid Jobs

[Man of E]

Steve Jobs?

sure, but from the OP:

[BrokenHalo]

but many of us take home bloated paychecks

To me, anyone who takes home a bloated paycheck belongs to the category of them not us. :-)