Top 10 best paying jobs

10 – Accountant
Average Annual Salary – 8,400 GHS
If you like numbers, spreadsheets, office chairs, and
double checking math, and office jobs, this is the
career for you. The main duties of accountants are to
prepare and examine all the financial documents, check
for errors and discrepancies, and make sure the taxes
are paid for the company.
One perk of the job is that you know what everyone
makes at the company. It’s also a downside because
you have to keep it a secret.
9 – Human Resources Manager
Average Annual Salary – 12,000 GHS
If you like dealing with people and filling vacancies,
then consider a job in human resources. In this
position, you manage all of the recruiting, interviewing,
and hiring of employees. You also meet with the
executives to ensure you understand what the company
wants and where it’s headed.
Unfortunately, you also have to handle a lot of
disgruntled employees if they blow a fuse or feel
disrespected.
8 – Sales Representative
Average Annual Salary – 12,000 GHS
If you want to earn just as much as a human resources
manager and deal with people but want to more fluidity
to your work, consider becoming a sales representative.
In this position, your main duty is to sell product. Use
your charm, your knowledge, and your intelligence to
sell your company’s products to customers and
businesses.
This is not a good position for you if you don’t handle
stress well.
7 – Business Analyst
Average Annual Salary – 24,000 GHS
If you’re good at many things, but especially
communication, here you go. Business analysts rarely
have one strong job description, although they
generally fall under the description of IT jobs. Their
main objective is to be a communicator between the
executives and administrators and the staff. Sometimes
business analysts represent the company in public
speaking gigs, sometimes they negotiate prices, and
sometimes they oversee projects.
If you hate consistency in your daily life, consider this
field.
6 – Operations Manager
Average Annual Salary – 48,000 GHS
Congratulations — if you’re working at an operations
manager you’ve climbed the ladder. No, you’re not at
the top, but there are few above you. You’re overseeing
the production of your products or services, and you’re
making sure everything is completed correctly.
Sometimes, you’ll change the workflow pattern to
improve efficiency and cut costs.
One thing you will not do is sleep if a run of product
goes out that upsets the public. The executive will
make sure of it.
5 – English Professor
Average Annual Salary – 60,000 GHS
Are you surprised? Maybe you shouldn’t be. English
professors are one of the higher, and more respected)
jobs in Accra, as well as the rest of Ghana. Here, you’ll
mold and shape the critical thinking processes of the
future. You’ll teach students how to construct
arguments and put them into words.
You’ll also find yourself with 72 hours’ worth of grading
to complete in 48 hours around the end of each course.
4 – Project Manager
Average Annual Salary – 70,000 GHS
Consider this one of the many marketing jobs you can
do. As a project manager, it’s your job to take abstract
ideas and concepts, and form executable plans from
them. From there, you send them to the operations
managers, who oversee the process below. Project
managing positions are one of the fasting growing jobs
in Ghana, too.
In this position, you’ll have to accept failure as part of
the process. Otherwise, you’ll suffer from a mental
breakdown.
3 – Account Manager
Average Annual Salary – 73,000 GHS
Many companies have many accounts with customers,
contractors, and other businesses. As an account
manager, it’s your job to take this marketing job and
keep the relations between your company and its
customers on good terms. It’s also your job to find
ways to increase the number of accounts your company
has.
This is the type of job for someone who felt as though
they wanted to be a police negotiator, but realized they
only wanted half the stress.
2 – Transportation/Shipping Supervisor
Average Annual Salary – 108,000 GHS
This is one of the many office jobs in Accra that has
seen an incredible rise in employment the last decade.
Transportation/shipping supervisors oversee the logs
of all merchandise shipped and received from a
company. They also maintain schedules, communicate
with customers, and, in some cases, plan routes.
If you’re good with complex problem solving, record
keeping, and communicate with angry people, you’ve
found your niche.
1 – Fuel Handler
Average Annual Salary – 120,000 GHS
Here it is, the best way to make the big bucks in
Ghana. There aren’t a lot of vacancies in this position
because the job pays well and requires effort. If you
hate IT jobs, marketing jobs, and office jobs but love
being out in the elements, here you go. Fuel handlers
ensure that aircraft and other vessels are properly
fueled. Extreme accuracy and caution needs to be used
in filling aircraft because of the distances traveled and
the weight. Fuel handlers usually have to undergo a set
amount of training before they can be certified.
One downside to this job are the headaches you’ll
experience from the smell of fuel all day — that and
when the weather turns vicious.