--- title: High-Paying Remote Jobs Are Getting Much Easier to Find description: More and more jobs that pay $80,000 or more are remote. High-paying remote jobs include those in finance, insurance, accounting and law. authors: - name: Mallika Mitra role: Contributing Editor url: https://money.com/author/mallika-mitra/ bio: Mallika Mitra is a contributing editor for Money, based in Chicago. She has covered investing and retirement for seven years and her work has appeared in CNBC, Bloomberg, Kiplinger, AARP, Barron’s, Bankrate, The Daily Upside, ETF.com, The Bond Buyer, PLANADVISER, PLANSPONSOR and Investopedia. education: Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY Kalamazoo College at_money_since: 2020 articles: 395 covers: - Career Advice - Banking - Business - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology also_seen_in: - CNBC - Bloomberg - Kiplinger - Barron's - Bankrate - WGN-TV - CBS News Radio - This Morning With Gordon Deal - Everyone's Talkin' Money social: - https://twitter.com/mitra_mallika - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mallika-mitra-4577a386/ published: '2021-10-13T17:40:36.000Z' modified: '2024-01-10T13:01:54.000Z' section: Career Advice tags: - News word_count: 528 canonical: https://money.com/high-paying-remote-jobs-increase/ type: NewsArticle source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Woman On Teleconference At Home](https://img.money.com/2021/10/News-High-Paying-Remote-Jobs-Soaring.jpg) Nowadays, you can make a lot of money working from home. Remote jobs rose to nearly 15% of all job listings that pay $80,000 or more in the U.S. and Canada in the third quarter of this year, according to [research](https://www.theladders.com/press/research-remote-work-now-accounts-for-nearly-15-of-all-high-paying-jobs) from high-paying jobs listing site Ladders. Those high-salary jobs made up just about 13% in the previous quarter — and only 4% in early 2020. The finance and insurance industries have had the largest increase in the number of high-paying remote jobs, followed by the legal and accounting, retail and consumer goods, aerospace and media industries. “The commute from your bedroom is here to stay,” said Ladders CEO Marc Cenedella in a press release accompanying the findings. The pandemic has significantly altered what it means to "go to work" — and it looks like the changes are here to stay. When COVID-19 hit the U.S. in March of 2020, many companies had to quickly adjust to having their employees working at home, finding new ways to communicate and attempting to stay connected despite offices closing. Workers suddenly had to make their homes into their own offices. The transition had speed bumps and headaches, but now that nearly 57% of the U.S. population is vaccinated and businesses have been welcoming employees back to the office, many workers have gotten used to the perks of remote work. The research from Ladders is the latest evidence that companies have to be flexible to attract and retain workers, especially as [employers are desperate to fill jobs](https://money.com/labor-shortage-jobs-no-drug-tests/). More than [40% of employees said they would seek a new job or quit](https://money.com/work-from-home-employee-survey/) if they were told they had to return to an office full time, according to recent data from monthly online surveys of 5,000 U.S. employees conducted by the University of Chicago, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and Stanford University. Of course, not everyone is able to work from home. There is a large disparity between the number of Hispanic and Black workers and white workers who can work remotely. One in six Hispanic workers and one in five Black workers are able to telework due to COVID-19 compared to one in four white workers, according to a June report from the [Economic Policy Institute](https://www.epi.org/blog/only-one-in-five-workers-are-working-from-home-due-to-covid-black-and-hispanic-workers-are-less-likely-to-be-able-to-telework/). And low-wage workers have the least flexibility. But in some cases, workplaces are being more flexible and there is more opportunity for candidates to have conversations upfront about what environment they work best in, Alison Sullivan, a career trends expert at the employer review site Glassdoor, [previously told Money](https://money.com/job-hunting-tips-vaccine-mandates/). “It’s a little bit of a clean slate,” Sullivan said. Because employers have had to broaden their scope to keep up with hiring, she suggests that if you want to try to work remotely at a job that doesn't specify that option, you should reach out to the recruiter or hiring manager and ask if they would consider a remote candidate. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/high-paying-remote-jobs-increase/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Career Advice", "item": "https://money.com/career-advice/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Employment", "item": "https://money.com/employment/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "High-Paying Remote Jobs Are Getting Much Easier to Find" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/high-paying-remote-jobs-increase/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/high-paying-remote-jobs-increase/", "name": "High-Paying Remote Jobs Are Getting Much Easier to Find", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2021-10-13T17:40:36.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/high-paying-remote-jobs-increase/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/high-paying-remote-jobs-increase/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-01-10T13:01:54.000Z" }, { "@type": "NewsArticle", "headline": "High-Paying Remote Jobs Are Getting Much Easier to Find", "articleSection": "Career Advice", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2021/10/News-High-Paying-Remote-Jobs-Soaring.jpg", "width": 2883, "height": 1920, "caption": "News-High-Paying-Remote-Jobs-Soaring" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Mallika Mitra", "url": "https://money.com/author/mallika-mitra/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/mallika-mitra/#author", "description": "Mallika Mitra is a contributing editor for Money, based in Chicago. 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