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Sick of pinching pennies? Maybe you need to switch jobs.

Glassdoor, a jobs-posting and -reviewing Web site, recently surveyed American workers to see who hauled in the biggest paychecks this past year.

And — shocker! — poets and philosophers didn’t make the grade.

Those who really are bringing in the bacon are physicians, who notched the No. 1 spot with a median salary of $180,000. Trailing behind were lawyers ($144,500) and research and development managers ($142,120). By way of comparison, the mean income in America in 2014, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, was $47,230.

The rest of Glassdoor’s report is a roll call of staid occupations: tax managers, data scientists and pharmacists.

But can higher salaries buy happiness?

In a separate survey, Glassdoor found that the biggest drivers of job satisfaction are strong company values and trustworthy bosses — not fat wallets.

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