Top 5 High Income Skills To Earn $10k/month For Students

If you are in search of the skills that you can learn to get high paid jobs and that can make you financially secure, then my friend you are in the right place. Here I am gonna tell you the top 5 high-income skills that you can learn and be wealthy.

High-income skills are those skills that can make you a minimum six-figure income annually or $10k or more per month.

These are those skills which have high demand in the market place and every business or company are in search of people who are master in these.

So, if you are a teenager or a student in college, you should start learning any one of these which best suits you. Or if you are doing any job, then you can also learn these as a side hustle.

And after you have learned a skill, then you can either start a 9-5 job or do freelancing or even better you can start a business.

So, let's see which are the high-income skills that can make you wealthy very easily.

High-income skills that you should learn in 2020

#1 Software Developer

Software development is one of the highest-paid jobs currently in the world. It has many areas like web development, app development, and game development and all of these have high demand in the marketplace.

In this world, where everything is online and digital from currency to business, communication to transportation, there is a really high importance of a coder/programmer nowadays.

Since, java is used in 90% of websites, creating software, games and even android apps that we use on our regular basis.

Many big companies like Linkedin, eBay, Amazon, and many others are using this language for their backend development.

If you know how to code or can make programs, then believe me you are really necessary for the market. And if you don't know to program, start learning it.

Yes, it will take time to learn to program and being master at that but it worth this time.

How much can you make out of it?

According to money.usanews.com, the median salary of software developers is $103k in 2018. and the highest 25% made $130k  while the lowest 25% made around $79k.

So, as you can see the software development jobs are growing in both measures that are salary and job volume in the market. Thus it is high time for you to learn to code. And if you are in college, then it is highly recommended to learn this skill, it has so much scope in the future.

#2 Copywriting

Copywriting is nothing but selling through words. You have seen many articles or sales page which force us to read each and every line on the page and even sometimes buys the product they are seeling.

This is a copywriting skill that grips your attention and compels you to read an article or writing page and even inspire us to buy something (if they want to) by his written words.

That's why copywriting skill is required in marketing/advertising. Copywriters are used to writing copy for marketing, advertising page/sales page, email, newsletter, social media captions, product descriptions and many more that convince readers to buy product or marketing communications.

Since copywriting is used to sell, so there are high returns of using a copywriter. Hence copywriters are valuable in the marketplace.

And not only copywriting is necessary for advertising marketing. You should know this skill if you want to excel in blogging or social media because it also involves writing and wherever writing comes, there is copywriting skill which makes it successful.

Don't think that it is a simple writing skill, you can learn it easily within some days. It is not that simple. You have to put moneths in learning and practicing this skill to become perfect in it.

How much can you make as a copywriter?

First of all the salary is different for different locations and experience (you know very well that experience matters!!). So, it is not necessary you will get this pay only, it can be different for your location.

According to payscale and salary.com, the median average salary of a copywriter is around $47k and in which 80% of them have a salary range of  $35k-$65k per annum.

#3 Video/Content Creator

A content creator is one who contributes to information on digital media. It can be in the form of a blog post or videos on youtube, email newsletter, ebooks, and many other things.

If you are either of digital photographers, videographers, video editors, audio producers or content writers, then you all are content creators and can maximize your potential here.

As a videographer, for example. you can start a business where you will provide content ideation to your client and give services of video documentation and this ill make you a good amount of money.

You can also earn amazing passive income from creating your own youtube channel and upload your videos in your niche or can start a blog where you can provide content in your niche.

How much a content creator make?

This is different for different professions. Digital photographers earn around $65k annually, with some people making even higher up to $150k. The videographer makes $66k-$125k per annum. Audio producers have an income of $40k-$75k and video editors $70k-$120k (this depends on where you work and how much you work).

And if you start your own business, then there is no limit on your earnings.

#4 Digital Marketing

Digital marketing has a huge demand in this era of the digitalized world. Every company wants a good online presence and digital marketers do that only.

They promote the company's products on the internet increasing their following, customer reach, and sales. Basically, you as a digital marketer would help your client to grow their business.

Digital marketing is a very wide niche that involves social media advertising, search engine optimization, email marketing, and content marketing.

You as a digital marketer have to write optimized content, posts, description and also emails. You would do everything for the marketing of the product of your clients like creating backlinks for the SEO of the blog, researching keywords for SEO and video, running ads and interacting with users for social media and many more marketing tasks.

How much can one earn being a digital marketer?

Digital marketers are mostly paid well. The average income of a digital marketer is approximate $73k per year in the US. And the average salary of a freelance digital marketer in us is around $66k per year.

Pro tip:

After learning digital marketing, start as a freelancer and then afterward thinks something bigger like starting an organization/agency, just like Neil Patel Agency.

#5 Public Speaking

There are many people who fear this because it involves going to stage and speaks in front of the public. Yes, it's hard, but this skill is probably the highest paid skill on this list for you.

If you have a good speaking and influential skill or you are able to convince people around you and being good at engaging with people and the most important thing can you motivate the public to take some action, then public speaking can be the best option for you. 

A good public speaker is one who brings positive change and convinces people to take action by his speech. They motivate people through storytelling and have an attractive personality and a strong voice.

As a public speaker, you have to prepare speeches that is compelling to the listener and deliver speeches at conferences, business meetings, community events or gatherings. This job also has an advantage that is travel also comes with this job.

Corporate from industry especially from the education sector is always in search of powerful speakers to motivate/inspire their work team and students.

How much would you earn as a public speaker?

The income of a public speaker (higher income range) is about $123k per annum. But it mostly depends on how many speeches did you give in the year as their pay is per speech. 

Pro tip:

In beginning speaks for free. Start off for free and get involved in speaking events, show off your public speaking skills to others. Most of the public speakers start in this way only. 

Where can you learn these skills?

There are many platforms out there to learn these skills. But I would recommend skillshare and Udemy. 

Skillshare has courses on everything and for everyone, it doesn't matter you are a beginner or intermediate or an expert. You will find courses that you are in search of.

Most of the courses are under the premium section which will costs you $8.73/month only.

Another platform is Udemy. It is my top recommendation. It has more variety and detailed courses than skillshare. But it has nothing free and no monthly plan, you only have to buy individual courses.

You can get all these skills on Udemy easily and learn and practice it to master them. After that, it is upon you how you will monetize that skill- job, freelancing or staring business or consulting.

If you want a free platform then you can go out on Coursera or Edx, they are on the top free learning platform. You can search more on the internet about these and choose that best suits you.

Conclusion

Learning a high-income skill is becoming a necessity in this financial uncertain world. You should learn these to have financial security.

It will take time to learn and being an expert in the skill but this worth it as there are only fruits after learning any one of these skills.

If you have any doubts regarding high-income skills, ask me in comments, or if you have any suggestions or tips you think I should add on, please tell me in comments.

So, what are you thinking? JUST GO and START LEARNING!!