If you want to be a ________ in Arkansas, you’ll make $_______.

Fill in the blanks with our guide to Arkansas occupations and the average salaries professionals make in that field.

• Accountant—$55,520
• Advertising Sales Agents—$40,010
• Aerospace Engineers—$70,870
• Aircraft Mechanics—$42,420
• Art Director—$58,470
• Athletic Trainers—$43,040
• Audio & Video Technicians—$32,100
• Automotive Service Technicians—$30,950
• Bartenders—$18,480
• Brick Masons—$40,560
• Carpenters—$33,780
• Chemical Engineers—$89,650
• Chemists—$66,990
• Childcare Workers—$17,400
• Chiropractors—$68,830
• Civil Engineers—$72,920
• Clergy—$39,210
• Coaches/Scouts—$47,980
• Computer Programmers—$62,120
• Computer Support Specialists—$39,210
• Computer Systems Analysts—$63,070
• Computer Application Software Developers—$67,650
• Court Reporters—$37,840
• Credit Analysts—$54,390
• Dental Hygienists—$60,850
• Desktop Publishers—$31,480
• Detectives & Criminal Investigators—$51,950
• Dieticians & Nutritionists—$50,370
• Electricians—$40,880
• Electrical Engineers—$82,930
• Elementary School Teachers—$43,380
• Emergency Management Directors—$39,160
• Engineering Technicians—$43,730
• Environmental Engineers—$72,630
• Explosives Workers —$34,370
• Film & Video Editors—$41,530
• Financial Analysts —$41,530
• Firefighters—$35,660
• Floral Designer—$21,620 
• Food Scientists & Technologists—$52,050
• Forest & Conservation Worker—$40,720
• Funeral Attendants—$21,220
• Graphic Designer—$36,580
• Hairdressers/Hairstylists—$28,260
• Home Health Aides—$18,360
• Industrial Engineers—$67,710
• Insurance Sales Agents—$58,340
• Interior Designers—$35,460
• Interpreters & Translators—$44,380
• Janitors—$20,330
• Judges—$58,430
• Landscape Architects—$52,070
• Librarians—$51,250
• Mechanical Engineers—$67,320
• Microbiologists—$68,870
• Middle School Teachers—$45,210
• Multimedia Artists & Animators—$60,780
• Nuclear Medicine Technologists—$65,240
• Nuclear Engineers—$85,760
• Occupational Therapists—$76,790
• Optometrists—$91,180
• Paralegals—$35,240
• Pest Control Workers—$27,010
• Personal Financial Advisers—$97,390
• Pharmacists—$101,010
• Pharmacy Aides—$19,100
• Photographers—$26,090
• Physical Therapists—$74,340
• Physical Therapist Assistants—$45,860
• Physician Assistants—$71,500
• Police Patrol Officers—$36,620
• Public Relations Managers—$81,580
• Radiation Therapists—$72,070
• Radio & Television Announcers—$28,850
• Radiologic Technologists—$44,490
• Real Estate Agents—$38,660
• Registered Nurses—$56,500
• Reporters/Correspondents—$28,590
• Secondary Education Teachers—$44,890
• Secretaries—$26,100
• Social Workers—$37,250
• Speech-Language Pathologists—$60,390
• Special Education, Elementary Teacher—$45,340
• Technical Writer—$45,660
• Telemarketers—$25,520
• Truck Drivers—$37,320
• Veterinarians—$77,940
• Waiters/Waitresses—$18,220
• Welders—$33,060
• Zoologists—$55,350

This is just a sampling of jobs you can get in Arkansas; for more options and salary amounts, visit www.BLS.gov/oes/current/oes_ar.htm. It’s where we found the above – the latest figures (2010) from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Top 25 Highest-Paying Jobs in America

• Surgeon—$225,390
• Anesthesiologists—$220,100
• Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons—$214,120
• Obstetricians and Gynecologists—$210,340
• Orthodontists—$200,290
• Internists, General—$189,480
• Physicians and Surgeons, All Other—$180,870
• Family and General Practitioner—$173,860
• Chief Executives—$173,350
• Psychiatrists—$167,610
• Pediatricians, General—$165,720
• Dentists, All Other Specialists—$162,190
• Dentists, Genera—$158,770
• Prosthodontist—$139,620
• Podiatrist—$133,410
• Lawyer—$129,440
• Natural Sciences Manager—$129,320
• Petroleum Engineer—$127,970
• Architectural and Engineering Manager—$125,900
• Computer and Information Systems Manager—$123,280
• Marketing Managers—$122,720
• Financial Managers—$116,970
• Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineer—$115,300
• Sales Managers—$114,110
• Industrial-Organizational Psychologists—$114,040