Name a job with median annual pay over $100,000 in the US

October 22, 2026 · Daily Dive #99

Explore 1,396 recorded answers and their points for question 2 on October 22, 2026.

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1,396 recorded names on October 22, 2026, 805 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Occupational pay tables rank hundreds of roles above the six-figure line, and many of them are not the obvious white-collar titles people shout out first. Any civilian occupation qualifies when official national wage data puts its median annual pay above $100,000; roles that only clear that bar at the top of their range do not.

1,396 recorded answers805 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut80485 pts
  • Rare52360 pts
  • Schooler6030 pts
  • Plankton810 pts
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Recorded answers

1,396 recorded answers

How to approach it

The efficient route is to treat the question as a memory dump over occupational wage tables rather than a search for one clever reply. Pick a handful of broad sectors, then walk each one from entry-level titles up through supervisory and specialist tiers, because the median is what matters and the middle of a pay distribution sits higher than most people assume. Write down every title that surfaces, even the awkward compound ones, and keep going until you have several dozen candidates. Then prune: anything paid by the hour with overtime-dependent earnings, or any role whose headline salary is really a top-decile figure, is a weak submission. Breadth first, hesitation last.

Get a hint

Start with the broad families where six-figure medians cluster: licensed professions, engineering and applied science, health care specialties, senior managers, and legal or regulatory roles.

A little more

Go narrower than the household names. The reveal is packed with hyphenated specialties, niche inspectors, program directors and technical leads whose titles almost never come up in ordinary conversation.

One step further

Aim for a title that appears as its own line in official wage statistics, often a field word welded to a role word, and remember that public-sector and utility employers pay these salaries too.

Reveal answers 1,396
  • Elevator mechanicOne in a Krillion100points
  • Accelerator OperatorDeep Cut85points
  • Accreditation ManagerDeep Cut85points
  • AcousticianDeep Cut85points
  • Activity Therapy TeacherDeep Cut85points
  • Administrative law judgeDeep Cut85points
  • Administrative services managerDeep Cut85points
  • Admiralty LawyerDeep Cut85points
  • Adolescent medicine physicianDeep Cut85points
  • Aerial firefighting pilotDeep Cut85points
  • Aerial survey pilotDeep Cut85points
  • AerodynamicistDeep Cut85points
  • Aeronautics Commission DirectorDeep Cut85points
  • AerophysicistDeep Cut85points
  • Agent-Based ModelerDeep Cut85points
  • Agricultural Services DirectorDeep Cut85points
  • Airship pilotDeep Cut85points
  • AnatomistDeep Cut85points
  • AndrologistDeep Cut85points
  • Animal Ride ManagerDeep Cut85points
  • Apparatus LinemanDeep Cut85points
  • Applications EngineerDeep Cut85points
  • Applications ScientistDeep Cut85points
  • Applied ScientistDeep Cut85points
  • Architectural managerDeep Cut85points
  • Armored Transport Service ManagerDeep Cut85points
  • Arts AdministratorDeep Cut85points
  • Automotive Services ManagerDeep Cut85points
  • Aviation psychologistDeep Cut85points
  • Avionics engineerDeep Cut85points
  • BariatricianDeep Cut85points
  • Behavioral scientistDeep Cut85points
  • BiogeographerDeep Cut85points
  • Bioinformatics EngineerDeep Cut85points
  • BiomathematicianDeep Cut85points
  • Biometrics InstructorDeep Cut85points
  • BiopsychologistDeep Cut85points
  • Blending CoordinatorDeep Cut85points
  • Blockchain Threat InvestigatorDeep Cut85points
  • Board of Education SecretaryDeep Cut85points
  • Boards and Commissions DirectorDeep Cut85points
  • Booster OperatorDeep Cut85points
  • Branch ChiefDeep Cut85points
  • Branch Office ManagerDeep Cut85points
  • Brand AnalystDeep Cut85points
  • Bridges and Buildings SupervisorDeep Cut85points
  • Brief writerDeep Cut85points
  • Brownfield redevelopment managerDeep Cut85points
  • Building services engineerDeep Cut85points
  • Bureau ChiefDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The scoring is a reminder that this puzzle rewards volume and specificity, not celebrity. Only one recorded answer reached the full 100, which means the reveal's top tier was reserved for a genuinely rare reply; the bulk of the credit sat at 85 for titles that are unusual yet clearly occupational, and at 60 for the merely plausible. Look at the 85-point band and a pattern appears: narrow compound titles such as Accelerator Operator, Accreditation Manager or Acoustician, plus institutional posts like Bureau Chief or Campus Director. These are real jobs with real payroll data behind them, but almost nobody names them at a party, so the crowd-sourced rarity score stays high. Familiar six-figure staples presumably clustered so densely that they fell to the lower bands, since a title everyone types is worth little. The practical lesson: one odd, verifiable specialty outscores a page of obvious ones.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 22 Oct, 04:00 UTC

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