20 high-paying jobs you can get with just an associate degree

Number of workers employed: 43,150

Job description on O*NET: Directly supervise and coordinate the activities of clerical and administrative support workers.

Number of workers employed: 205,590

Job description on O*NET: Take X-rays and CAT scans, or administer nonradioactive materials into patient's blood stream for diagnostic purposes. Includes technologists who specialize in other scanning modalities.

Number of workers employed: 24,900

Job description on O*NET: Prepare wiring diagrams, circuit board assembly diagrams, and layout drawings used for the manufacture, installation, or repair of electrical equipment.

Number of workers employed: 42,660

Job description on O*NET: Assist occupational therapists in providing occupational therapy treatments and procedures.

Number of workers employed: 129,600

Job description on O*NET: Assess, treat, and care for patients with breathing disorders. Assume primary responsibility for all respiratory care modalities, including the supervision of respiratory therapy technicians.

Number of workers employed: 181,360

Job description on O*NET: Analyze, test, troubleshoot, and evaluate existing network systems, such as local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), and Internet systems or a segment of a network system.

Number of workers employed: 83,360

Job description on O*NET: Lay out, build, test, troubleshoot, repair, and modify developmental and production electronic components, parts, equipment, and systems, such as computer equipment, missile control instrumentation, electron tubes, test equipment, and machine tool numerical controls, applying principles and theories of electronics, electrical circuitry, engineering mathematics, electronic and electrical testing, and physics.

Number of workers employed: 18,860

Job description on O*NET: Install, inspect, test, adjust, or repair avionics equipment, such as radar, radio, navigation, and missile control systems in aircraft or space vehicles.

Number of workers employed: 126,950

Job description on O*NET: Lay out, build, test, troubleshoot, repair, and modify developmental and production electronic components, parts, equipment, and systems, such as computer equipment, missile control instrumentation, electron tubes, test equipment, and machine tool numerical controls, applying principles and theories of electronics, electrical circuitry, engineering mathematics, electronic and electrical testing, and physics.

Number of workers employed: 10,110

Job description on O*NET: Operate, install, calibrate, and maintain integrated computer/communications systems, consoles, simulators, and other data acquisition, test, and measurement instruments and equipment, which are used to launch, track, position, and evaluate air and space vehicles.

Number of workers employed: 127,300

Job description on O*NET: Design, create, and modify websites. Analyze user needs to implement website content, graphics, performance, and capacity.

Number of workers employed: 38,540

Job description on O*NET: Operate Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners. Monitor patient safety and comfort, and view images of area being scanned to ensure quality of pictures.

Number of workers employed: 71,130

Job description on O*NET: Produce ultrasonic recordings of internal organs for use by physicians.

Number of workers employed: 215,150

Job description on O*NET: Clean teeth and examine oral areas, head, and neck for signs of oral disease.

Number of workers employed: 18,810

Job description on O*NET: Prepare, administer, and measure radioactive isotopes in therapeutic, diagnostic, and tracer studies using a variety of radioisotope equipment.

Number of workers employed: 7,230

Job description on O*NET: Assist nuclear physicists, nuclear engineers, or other scientists in laboratory or production activities.

Number of workers employed: 8,400

Job description on O*NET: Plan, direct, or coordinate the services or resources of funeral homes.

Number of workers employed: 18,260

Job description on O*NET: Provide radiation therapy to patients as prescribed by a radiologist according to established practices and standards.

Number of workers employed: 22,390

Job description on O*NET: Control air traffic on and within the vicinity of an airport and movement of air traffic between altitude sectors and control centers according to established procedures and policies.