A leading online recruitment company listed the top ten highest paying jobs abroad, with doctors and "oil & gas" engineers topping the list.
Looking for a job abroad that pays high?
According to JobStreet.com's Salary Report for Overseas Jobs, the jobs that pay more overseas are the medical and engineering professions, followed by the tourism and hotel jobs.
The figures, taken from January 1 to December 31, 2013, are based on the jobs postings on their website, coming from the employers themselves, which they gathered and put on averages. The employers are all licensed agencies by the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA).
You can find below the Top 10 List of Highest Paid Overseas Jobs (Managers, Supervisor and Junior Executives):
MANAGERS:
1. Oil & Gas Engineers- P186,913/month
(Site managers, engineer managers, projects managers etc.)
2. Civil/Construction/Structural engineers – P181,841/month
(Structural engineers, design managers, urban planning managers etc.)
3. Hotel Management/Tourism Services - P175,573
(Hotel general managers, housekeeping managers, assistant guest managers etc.)
4. General Engineers- P169,667/month
(Project managers, technical managers, senior safety managers etc.)
5. Electrical Engineers - P167,617/month
(Electrical engineers/managers, power plant managers, team managers etc.)
6. Marketing and Business Development - P152,583/month
(Marketing managers, brand managers, outlet managers etc.)
7. Architecture/interior design - P149,912/month
(Project managers, senior scale model makers, design managers etc.)
8. Finance/Cost Accounting - P126,342/month
(Finance managers, finance and admin managers etc.)
9. Machine Repair & Maintenance - P121,845/month
(Facilities managers, maintenance managers, equipment section managers etc.)
10. Food & Beverage - P108,507/month
(Sous chef, restaurant kitchen mangers, assistant fast food managers etc.)
SUPERVISORS:
1. Doctor/Diagnosis - P124,699/month
(OB gyne, Endocrinologist, plastic surgeon etc.)
2. Banking & Finance Services - P113,048/month
(Finance consultant, branch supervisor, analyst etc.)
3. Oil & Gas Engineering - P88,868/month
(Safety supervisor, senior piping designer, senior drilling engineer etc.)
4. Finance/Cost Accounting - P87,662/month
(Senior accountant, management accounting supervisor, financial analyst etc.)
5. Education - P87,301/month
(Senior librarian, professor (respiratory therapy, medical ultrasonography technology etc.)
6. Electronics & Communications Engineer - P82,119/month) (Electronics and communications engineer, transmission engineer etc.)
7. General Engineer - P81,505/month
(Senior product engineer, factory engineer, planning engineer etc.)
8. IT/Software - P80,672/month
(Senior VB net developer, IT systems analyst, lead software engineer etc.)
9. Database/Network Administrator - P78,920/month
(Training project coordinator, Oracle database field application etc.)
10. Chemical Engineering - P78,459/month
(Lab chemist, plant supervisor, lab supervisor etc.)
JUNIOR EXECUTIVES/ENTRY LEVEL POSITION:
1. Doctor - P73,403/month
(General practitioners, optometrists, veterinarian etc.)
2. Aviation - P69,435/month
(Tutors in aviation, logistics, aircraft mechanic, airport representative etc.)
3. Banking & Finance - P63,063/month
(General accountant, assistant controller, cost asset officer etc.)
4. Oil & Gas Engineer - P59,305/month
(Design engineer, shaker man, derrick man etc.)
5. IT Software - P56,655/month
(Business system analyst, software engineer, IT programmer etc.)
6. Education - P53,450/month
(Instructor in IT, swimming; English tutor etc.)
7. Quantity Surveying - P50,022/month
(HVAC quantity surveyor, cost estimator, statistician etc.)
8. Database/Network Administrator - P48,479/month
(Network installer, IT document controller, IT staff etc.)
9. Human Resources - P46,183/month
(Compensation and benefits specialist, recruitment officer, payroll analyst etc.)
10. Nurse/Medical Assistant - P46,049
(X-ray technician, nurse, nursing aide etc.)
Last year, about 1.5 million Filipino workers were deployed in different parts of the world. The POEA said the Top 10 destinations are Saudi Arabia, UAE, Singapore, Hong Kong, Qatar, Kuwait, Taiwan, Malaysia, Bahrain, and Italy.--Source: POEA/JobStreet/ABS-CBN News