Securing a high-paying remote job offers you the opportunity to make money from home through other ventures
Ever wondered which remote jobs are the most lucrative?
It turns out that working from home doesn’t necessarily indicate a decline in pay after all. The greater the demand and the more highly specialized the role, the greater your chance of making six figures.
What’s more, landing a well-paid remote job gives you the opportunity to use the time you have back from the commute to focus on other interesting pursuits such as your hobbies and interests. Some of these hobbies and interests can be turned into high-income endeavors later, making you even more money while working from home.
When searching for remote jobs, it’s best to look out for the ones that are in high demand. This ensures that there is a steady flow of positions available, and it gives you more options when it comes to choosing employers.
FlexJobs recently analyzed more than 60,000 companies and their job posting histories in their database for the first half of the year—between January 1 and May 31, 2024, and the findings were very intriguing. They revealed that the top 10 companies in their job board that are hiring for hybrid remote and fully remote jobs include employers such as Robert Half International, Veeva, AECOM, Lee Hecht Harrison, and CVS Health.
The remote jobs analysis also concluded that, out of the vacancies listed on the FlexJobs website since the start of the year, the 10 remote jobs listed below were the most popular—meaning employers posted and hired for them more than any other job category.
Accountant (average salary $90,540)
Software engineer (average salary $130,050)
Customer service representative (average salary $38,993 but has the potential to move into management with a salary of $100,744)
Product manager (average salary $149,827)
Executive assistant (average salary $71,873)
Account executive (average salary $105,673)
Sales development representative (average salary $66,577 plus uncapped commission in many instances)
Business development representative (average salary $65,980 plus uncapped commission in many instances)
Project manager (average salary $143,357)
Product marketing manager (average salary $141,223)
Skills Required For These High-Paying Remote Jobs
What’s noteworthy about this list is that FlexJobs created another report with recent analysis of work-from-anywhere jobs, and some of the roles from that list cross over to the jobs mentioned here. For example, product manager and account executive were both cited as the most popular remote jobs, within the remote jobs category (where one works from home all or part of the time) and also in the work-from-any-location-in-the-world category.
Another interesting insight is that, although the above-listed roles are unique and require job-specific skills, when you look at the skills required for these high-paying remote jobs, they share quite a few in common. To give an example, think about three of the jobs above: customer service representative, sales development representative, and business development. All three jobs work to ultimately serve the customer and share the skill set of communication skills (to present, sell, and understand customer needs), problem-solving skills (to solve client pain-points), and relationship-building (to establish trust and credibility).
Communication is the number one skill in demand by employers for 2024, according to LinkedIn, and this is evidently a necessary prerequisite for success in all 10 of these high-paying jobs. Communication is more than the mere act of talking or receiving information; it is when you make an intentional and deliberate effort to understand another’s point of view, and convey your ideas in a way that can be easily grasped.
Especially when working remotely, communication skills are needed, since you will rely more heavily on digital mediums for communication with co-workers and customers, and digital communication can easily be misunderstood.
Some of the other skills that appear frequently amongst the jobs listed above include critical thinking, adaptability, time management and organization, analytical thinking, and strategic thinking, and they are fundamental for career progression, pay raises, and your leverage to secure competitive salaries.
Don’t just wish for a high-paying remote job. Work for it. Show you have what it takes to be a stellar remote employee, by demonstrating these skills throughout your application, and highlighting examples of where you’ve worked remotely recently.
