(Shutterstock)This story appeared in the June 21, 2017 issue of Level Up by Forbes newsletter. SubscribeThe grass isn’t always greener for white-collar workers. Some of their blue-collar counterparts are making a pretty penny, reports Jeff Kauflin for Forbes. Take nuclear power reactor operators, who earn an average of $91,370 a year. As an added bonus, these occupations typically don’t require extensive, debt-inducing education—graduates of the Pittsburgh Institute of Aeronautics, one of America’s top two-year trade schools, see early-career salaries of $52,900.

Source: Forbes June 21, 2017 19:07 UTC