There are nearly 300,000 construction managers in the U.S., but the most common job that doesn’t require a college degree was first-line supervisors of construction trades and extraction workers, with over 626,000 workers. Over 81% of those workers don’t have college degrees, according to BLS.
The highest-paid job in the country without a college degree, the study found, is nuclear power reactor operators, who earn an annual median salary of $100,530. Several other construction-related jobs are in the top 25 highest-earning jobs without a degree.
