This chart shows the average wage for nearly all American jobs

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last updated 8 January 2015

Endeavoring Reddit user Dan Lin used data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to create a comprehensive chart of the average wage for nearly every job in America.

Lin's chart is color-coded by industry, and the parenthetical number at the right of each bar shows the mean wage (in thousands). The various shapes demonstrate the salary range in each field.

Unsurprisingly, the highest wages are all in medical fields, which are fuchsia on the chart, while the lowest wages are in the hospitality and food industries, which are pea green and lime green on the chart, respectively. The top mean wage is for anesthesiologists at $235,100 a year, followed closely by surgeons at $233,200 a year. The lowest mean wage goes to fast food cooks at just $18,900 a year.