20 of the Best Jobs to Have Now

We know the companies with the best employee ratings—but what about the jobs delivering the most satisfaction?

InHerSight’s list of the best companies is based on millions of anonymous ratings and reviews by women who are working at these companies or have worked there. Employees rate their experience on a scale of one to five stars, giving feedback on 18 metrics, including Salary Satisfaction and Ability to Telecommute, aka to work remotely.

We pulled the highest ratings for one of the metrics, Overall Satisfaction, and looked at the jobs those raters have to make this list of 20 of the best jobs to have right now. All data is current as of March 15, 2022.

Most of these top jobs can be found in multiple industries, and nearly all have open positions you can apply for today. (Also, you can help make this list even better—just share your experience by anonymously rating your company here.)

The best jobs to have: 20 highly ranked roles, based on employee ratings

The best jobs for helping people and customers

Talent acquisition manager

Talent acquisition managers are human resources “matchmakers.” They work with companies to help find the best candidates for open positions, and they work with job seekers to help them find roles they are a good match for. They are pros at networking and communication. For more detail on what it’s like to have this job, read our interviews with two women on their experience as talent acquisition managers.

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 4.5 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $121,405

Real estate agent

While talent acquisition managers match people with their best jobs, real estate agents match people with their best homes. This job also involves a lot of networking and communication with your clients or potential clients. It comes with flexible hours, a lot of time not having to sit at a desk, and the chance to meet a lot of people in your community.

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 4.1 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $94,031

Flight attendant

Flight attendants handle everything that happens in the airplane cabin during a flight, and we mean everything—some days it’s calming down unruly passengers, while others it’s delivering a baby mid-flight! It often requires a lot of patience, time management, and excellent customer service skills. It’s not a job for those who don’t like the unexpected or prefer to avoid high-stakes situations. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 4.0 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $79,472

Reservations agent

Reservations agents help travelers plan and book their trip accommodations. They could work for travel agents, hotels, resorts, or any company involved in the travel experience. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.8 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $40,369

Customer success manager

Customer success managers help customers after they’ve bought a new product like software, to make sure they’re using all the product’s features and they’re happy with their purchase. They work in B2B and B2C, looking to strengthen partnerships and keep customers happy (and returning for more products). You can read our interviews with three women on their experience as customer success managers.

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.8 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $68,689

Speech and language pathologist

Speech and language pathologists help everyone, from babies to adults, with any problems tied to speaking, voice, verbal communication, and even swallowing. If children are having trouble saying words or if they develop a stutter, they’ll often go to a speech pathologist. They can work at hospitals, run their own practice, or work in rehab facilities.

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.6 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $86,387

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Financial advisor

Financial advisors help individuals or businesses with their money. They might do a budget and risk/reward analysis to give guidance on how to reach financial goals, or have total investment responsibility over an individual’s or business’s finances. They usually pass qualifying exams and need licenses to operate. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.5 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $76,423 (as a base salary, often with commission on top of that)

Human resources manager

Human resources (HR) managers can oversee everything from employee benefits, to recruiting, to hiring and firing, to workplace issues between coworkers, and company networking events. Often people in HR focus on a specialty—like finding new talent or managing conflict or standing up for employees’ rights. HR employees tend to be great communicators and operate with patience and discretion. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.5 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $109,742

The best jobs for working with a team 

Product manager

Product managers develop a company’s products—pitch ideas for them, improve them, analyze their effectiveness, and solve problems they have. Their goal is to make a company’s products more competitive, to increase sales and improve product ratings. Here are three firsthand accounts of what being a product manager is like. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.8 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $72,039

Communications manager

Communications managers handle a company’s internal (management-to-employee) and external (company-to-public) messaging. That includes press releases, company-wide memos, formal announcements, and social media presence. They should have excellent communication skills (surprise!), as they’re called on to write and speak constantly. Sometimes the job is similar/identical to what public relations professionals do, and you can read two women’s experiences in PR here. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.7 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $111,770

Event manager

Event managers oversee everything associated with an “event,” whether it be a party, conference, or corporate retreat. They try to create an experience even better than what the hosts envision. They scout and book locations, handle vendor communication and hiring, work on the logistics of layout and timing and rentals. It’s a lot of planning and attention to detail—which is why event planners never seem to be far from their phones. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.6 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $100,655

The best jobs for working with numbers or getting technical 

Data scientist

Data scientists help solve problems using large sets of research results, facts, figures… aka, data. They need a strong understanding of math and science and how to use the two to find answers to complicated questions. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.7 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $135,537

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Software engineer

Software engineers work on developing website systems and software programs. They typically need to know a lot of coding, software tools, and how websites work. We asked four women to share their experience as software engineers for a better idea of how to become one (turns out you don’t need a computer science degree!) and what a typical work day looks like. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.7 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $72,313

Research assistant

Research assistants work with a team or a Lead Researcher to conduct experiments or gather data. They could work in a lab, an office, or in the field where they’re studying subjects. A lot of research assistants work at schools, but they’re also hired at private companies, government organizations, and nonprofits. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.6 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $53,560

Operations analyst

Operations analysts are problem solvers. They identify and fix issues with how a company or business operates. They use statistics, research, and modeling to find and present solutions. As the title says, it’s a good job for an analytical thinker—and also lets people interact with lots of teams in a company. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.6 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $63,931

Scientist

If you loved science class in school, be a scientist and get paid to study what you like—human bodies, animals, Earth, space, disease… You can spend your days in a lab or in remote areas of the world, and what you discover could actually be life-changing. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.6 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $70,000 - $100,000 (depends on the type of science)

Financial analyst

Financial analysts review investments and related opportunities for businesses. They look into trends, performance, and budgets to determine how a company can make more money. They’re often using reports and presentations to guide management on “big money” decisions. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.5 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $96,630

The best jobs for getting creative

Stylist

Stylists’ jobs vary greatly depending on where they work, but it usually means creating the look of a photo shoot, event, or person (especially celebrities). They might be in charge of finding the right fashion and dressing models or clients from head to toe, or styling an event and all the decorations and accessories that go with it, or interior designing a physical space. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.5 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $82,734

Director of marketing

Directors of marketing oversee everything with a company’s advertising and promotion efforts. This includes where to advertise, what to say, when to distribute, how it’s working, how much it costs, and what value it’s driving—and the list goes on. The salary can depend on the company’s marketing budget, years of experience, and how well-known the brand is. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.5 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $151,031

Copywriter

Copywriters are in charge of the words in advertising and marketing material. Like marketing directors, their specific roles and compensation depend on how big the company and the advertising campaign is and how much money it brings in. Good copywriters know how to use emotions to get us to act, so they can charge a lot more when they have successful examples in their portfolios. 

• Average Overall Satisfaction rating: ★ 3.4 stars
• Average U.S. salary: $52,815 (with commission opportunities available to make into the millions)