Teaching adults at work: designing courses, coaching leaders, running simulations, and training everyone from surgeons to salespeople.
Top pay: highest pay, longest training
Chief Learning Officer: Executive who leads all training and employee development at a large company. Typical pay $210k.
Training & Development Manager: Manages a company's training team and programs, from onboarding to leadership development. Typical pay $127k.
Executive / Leadership Coach: Coaches business leaders one-on-one to become better managers and communicators. Typical pay $110k.
Medical Device Clinical Educator: Trains surgeons, nurses, and hospital staff to use new medical devices, often in the operating room. Typical pay $115k.
Mid pay: solid pay, degree or apprenticeship
Instructional Designer: Designs online courses, training programs, and learning experiences that actually teach people. Typical pay $80k.
eLearning Developer: Builds interactive online training modules, videos, and simulations using tools like Articulate and Adobe. Typical pay $78k.
VR & Simulation Training Developer: Creates virtual-reality and simulation training, like practicing surgery, repairing a jet engine, or handling a difficult customer. Typical pay $95k.
Sales Enablement Specialist: Trains a company's sales team on products, pitches, and tools so they sell more. Typical pay $90k.
Customer Education Specialist: Teaches a company's customers how to use its product, through tutorials, webinars, and certification programs. Typical pay $82k.
Workplace Safety Trainer: Teaches workers how to stay safe on construction sites, factories, and other hazardous workplaces. Typical pay $81k.
Flight Simulator Instructor: Trains airline and military pilots in full-motion flight simulators, throwing emergencies at them to practice. Typical pay $90k.
Healthcare Simulation Educator: Runs realistic practice scenarios with robot patient mannequins to train nurses and doctors. Typical pay $82k.
Ship Bridge Simulator Instructor: Trains ship captains and harbor pilots on full-size bridge simulators that recreate storms, tight harbors and engine failures. Typical pay $95k.
Flight Attendant Instructor: Trains new and experienced flight attendants in evacuations, firefighting, first aid and service, using cabin mockups and ditching pools. Typical pay $68k.
AI Enablement Specialist: Teaches coworkers to use AI tools safely and well, building trainings, prompt guides and examples for each team. Typical pay $85k.
Starter: fastest way in
Training Coordinator: Schedules training sessions, manages enrollment, and keeps training records. Typical pay $50k.
Frontline / Retail Trainer: Trains new hires at stores, restaurants, or call centers on how to do the job. Typical pay $45k.
eLearning Course Production Assistant: Helps build online courses by uploading content, editing videos, captioning, and testing modules. Typical pay $48k.
Contact Center Trainer: Trains new customer service reps on systems, policies, and how to handle tough callers. Typical pay $52k.
Employee Onboarding Specialist: Plans and runs the first days and weeks for new employees at a company. Typical pay $54k.
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