When you envision successful individuals, you might picture people in fancy professional attire rubbing shoulders with each other in some corporate office environment.

But time is proving that is not the only pathway to success. In fact, many great careers can be had in the comfort of your own home. Smooth Remote compiled some of the best remote jobs for this year, but here are the top earners of the bunch.

Product Designer

Combine your creative side with market research to help a company design new products. Doing so comes with a typical salary of over $105,000.

Product Manager

A step up from the previous role, the product manager oversees the entirety of product development from start to finish. It comes with a salary of around the $113,000 mark.

Finance Director

If you are good with numbers, put it to use managing the accounts and budgets of an organization. It will earn you around $114,000 per year.

Front-End Developer

In short, this job is for coders who know how to design websites and apps. If that sounds like you, you can make nearly $120,000 on average for such work.

Business Development Manager

This person assists with the business’s development by scouting out new ventures to get involved in, from clients to appealing markets. The average salary is just over $127,000.

Machine Learning Engineer

Essentially programmers are tasked with creating systems that can eventually be automated to analyze data on their own. Pay is often around $131,000.

Cloud Architects

Experts in understanding and managing cloud databases, which includes ensuring that all the company data being stored there remains secure. You will frequently see salaries above $137,000 for this position.

As you can see, these are not only lucrative careers to get into, but also have vital importance to the company. Any stigma against remote work has diminished drastically, and you will find many positions that will help further your long-term career goals.

For the complete list of remote jobs and their earning potential, consult the article from Smooth Remote here.

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