Market Watch Jillian Berman July 26, 2017 There are 30 million jobs in the U.S. that don’t require a four-year college degree and pay an average salary of $55,000. And they’re a lot different than the jobs that paid a good wage to people without degrees a generation ago. More... Don Some goods info. But what's rarely mentioned, and not mentioned here, is that most workers work different jobs in different industries over their working lives.