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High paying entry level jobs in Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC

These occupations in Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC ask for no prior experience in a related job and no on-the-job training period: you are expected to be productive on arrival. That is precisely why most of them want a specific qualification instead — the credential does the work the experience would have. Read the line under each title for what that qualification is; several here are doctorates. If you need something you can start without one, use the no-experience list.

Cost of living: prices in Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC run 11.7% below the national average (2024), so a Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC salary is worth about 1.13× its face value in national terms. That scales every wage here by the same factor — it changes what the numbers mean, not their order.

Local wage estimates are suppressed more often than state ones — BLS withholds any figure too few local employers report — so an occupation missing here simply has no published local estimate.

Wages: BLS OEWS, May 2025 · Cost of living: BEA regional price parities, 2024

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Bars run from the 10th to the 90th percentile; the middle half is shaded darker, and the tick is the median.

Ranked among the occupations common enough to employ roughly one in every three thousand workers in Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC. The rarer ones are real jobs — but a 1,190-person occupation at the top of a list answers a different question than the one most readers are asking.

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The same fields, narrowed to what you can enter without one. Fields missing here have too few such occupations in Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC to rank honestly.

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