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

October 22, 2026 · Daily Dive #99

Explore 1,420 recorded answers and their points for question 2 on October 22, 2026.

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1,420 recorded names on October 22, 2026, 814 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.

1,420 recorded answers814 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut81385 pts
  • Rare53760 pts
  • Schooler6130 pts
  • Plankton810 pts
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Recorded answers

1,420 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 1,420
  • Control Board OperatorDeep Cut85points
  • Control Integration EngineerDeep Cut85points
  • Control Room OperatorDeep Cut85points
  • Conversion SpecialistDeep Cut85points
  • Core AnalystDeep Cut85points
  • Cornea SpecialistDeep Cut85points
  • Corporation SecretaryDeep Cut85points
  • Correctional Agency DirectorDeep Cut85points
  • Correctional Facility Industries SuperintendentDeep Cut85points
  • Correctional Therapy DirectorDeep Cut85points
  • Correctional Therapy TeacherDeep Cut85points
  • Corrosion engineerDeep Cut85points
  • Cost Accounting ManagerDeep Cut85points
  • Counterespionage AnalystDeep Cut85points
  • Country managerDeep Cut85points
  • County administratorDeep Cut85points
  • County OrdinaryDeep Cut85points
  • Court AdministratorDeep Cut85points
  • Court CommissionerDeep Cut85points
  • Court MasterDeep Cut85points
  • Craft Center DirectorDeep Cut85points
  • Craniofacial surgeonDeep Cut85points
  • Credentialing ManagerDeep Cut85points
  • Credit Products OfficerDeep Cut85points
  • Cross Enterprise IntegratorDeep Cut85points
  • Cryogenic engineerDeep Cut85points
  • CrystallographerDeep Cut85points
  • Crystallography TeacherDeep Cut85points
  • Customer EngineerDeep Cut85points
  • Customer Equipment EngineerDeep Cut85points
  • Cyber IT Knowledge ManagerDeep Cut85points
  • Cyber Operations PlannerDeep Cut85points
  • Cyber Operations SpecialistDeep Cut85points
  • Cyber Workforce ManagerDeep Cut85points
  • Cybersecurity All-Source Collection ManagerDeep Cut85points
  • Cybersecurity Exploitation AnalystDeep Cut85points
  • Cybersecurity Multi-Disciplined Language AnalystDeep Cut85points
  • Cybersecurity Target DeveloperDeep Cut85points
  • Cybersecurity Target Network AnalystDeep Cut85points
  • CytopathologistDeep Cut85points
  • Dance Studio ManagerDeep Cut85points
  • Data center technicianDeep Cut85points
  • Data CoordinatorDeep Cut85points
  • Data Governance AnalystDeep Cut85points
  • Data integration specialistDeep Cut85points
  • Data Integrity SpecialistDeep Cut85points
  • Data Migration SpecialistDeep Cut85points
  • Data visualization developerDeep Cut85points
  • Data warehousing specialistDeep Cut85points
  • Dealership ManagerDeep 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, 05:15 UTC

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