26 Highest-Paying Jobs That Let You Work From Home

• Salary: $86,341, according to PayScale

Marketing communications directors oversee the programs that market products and services to specific populations. They use analytics and data to make their decisions and have strong leadership skills to help steer their teams to meet performance goals.

The highest-earning marketing communications directors can make $144,000 per year.

• Salary: $93,935, according to PayScale

Marketing directors oversee the entire marketing team to ensure a company’s marketing campaigns are successful. Their job tasks include developing concepts and budgets for marketing campaigns, resolving issues that arise within their team and maintaining open communication with their company’s clients and vendors, as well as with other managers within their company.

The top 10% of earners with this title can make an average salary of $153,000.

• Salary: $132,006, according to PayScale

The primary responsibility of a senior product marketing manager is to create marketing strategies that increase brand loyalty and sales. They do this by analyzing market trends, developing pricing strategies, establishing marketing goals and evaluating product performance.

The top-earning senior product marketing managers can make $166,000 per year.

• Salary: $151,543, according to PayScale

These VPs develop strategies to improve or maintain the market shares for the goods or services their company sells. They also oversee the various departments that provide the data that help them create these strategies. The vice president of marketing typically reports directly to the company’s CEO or COO.

The top 10% can bring in a $209,000 salary.

• Salary: $77,177, according to PayScale

These analysts implement the security measures necessary to protect an organization’s computer networks and systems. Cyber security analysts typically have a bachelor’s degree in a computer-related field as well as experience in a related occupation.

The highest 10% in this position can earn a $116,000 salary.

• Salary: $96,078, according to PayScale

Privacy officers make sure all departments within their company follow company privacy practices, and they perform privacy-related departmental audits to ensure that this is the case. They help assess and reduce risks to privacy and respond to privacy breaches.

Top-paid privacy officers can earn $153,000 a year.

• Salary: $92,131, according to PayScale

Security consultants can work in various fields, usually for companies that have large digitized databases. These consultants design or improve systems that protect their institution against internal and external data theft, and come up with emergency plans for what to do in case of a data breach.

The top 10% of security consultants earn an average salary of $147,000.

• Salary: $105,000, according to PayScale

Clinical trial managers create and carry out protocols for clinical trials to meet regulations and standards. They also manage budgets and schedules for clinical trials, track and write reports on the progress of trials, develop enrollment strategies and come up with solutions for day-to-day issues.

Top earners with this job title can make $141,000 per year.

• Salary: $212,455, according to PayScale

Medical director is the highest-paid work-from-home job on this list. These directors manage the operations of a healthcare organization. Responsibilities include developing guidelines, managing clinical staff and supervising quality assurance. Typically, you’ll need an MD or DO to do this job, according to FlexJobs.

At the high end of the payscale, Medical Directors can earn up to $276,000. 

• Salary: $81,040, according to Payscale

Becoming a psychologist typically requires a doctoral degree and certification. Some psychologists work in research roles, while others work directly with patients to help improve their cognitive, social or emotional behaviors. Those with a private practice can easily work from home by either having a home office or conducting sessions using a video messaging service.

The highest-paid 10% of psychologists can earn $119,000.

• Salary: $132,700, according to PayScale

Cloud solutions architects design, manage and monitor cloud computing strategies for companies. If you want to be a cloud architect, you should have experience with networking, programming languages, operating systems and cloud security, according to FlexJobs. 

The top earners in this profession can earn $168,000.

• Salary: $141,256, according to PayScale

Solutions architects turn business objectives and requirements into products and services that meet these needs. Senior solutions architects oversee technical pre-sales support, set and monitor sales goals, and inform workers around issues such as solutions, structure, and growth. Senior solutions architects typically oversee developers and junior architects. They must be skilled with computer software such as Microsoft applications, JavaScript and SFDC.

Top-tier earners can command a salary of $178,000.

• Salary: $83,734 according to PayScale

These managers resolve customer issues, identify problems and come up with improvements for technical support processes. They also oversee a company’s technical support team.

The top 10% of tech support managers earn an average salary of $127,000.

• Salary: $131,490 per year, according to Payscale.

Research engineers invent and design innovative approaches to technology and find new uses for existing technology. This fast-growing occupation typically requires a master’s degree.

Top tier earners can make as much as $208,000 per year.

• Salary: $111,896, according to PayScale

Senior systems engineers are in charge of the planning, design and implementation of system engineering projects. They are proficient in Windows/Linux servers and usually also have a special area of expertise such as storage, virtualization or large-scale platforms.

Top earners can make $152,000 annually.

• Salary: $90,745, according to Payscale

These engineers develop applications or systems for computers and similar devices. Software engineers typically have a bachelor’s degree in computer science as well as strong computer programming skills.

Top earners can make $133,000 annually.

Jordan Rosenfeld and Andrew Lisa contributed to the reporting for this article. 

All salary information is sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Payscale unless otherwise indicated.