Jobs For Math Lovers That Pay $50K + Up!

Get paid to play with numbers with these four jobs.
By Jason Latshaw
If you love math, and want to make a living working with numbers, you're in luck. With some planning and knowledge, you can easily parlay your mastery of math into some very attractive numbers - a high salary.
The fact is that nearly every industry relies on numbers in one sense or another, whether it's for forecasts, analysis, or research.
Here are four high-paying, fulfilling careers for people who love to crunch numbers.

Many industries - insurance especially - need someone to figure out the probability that certain events will occur, and how to protect their bottom line in the event that they do.
Salary: The median annual wage for actuaries is $82,800, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. And those on the top end of the pay scale can easily pull in more than $100,000 a year.
Forget probabilities...what if you were able to predict the demand for a certain product or offering? Or had the ability to identify new markets and competitive threats posed by other companies? These kinds of predictions are made every day by marketing professionals. Nearly every company relies on marketers in their day-to-day operations and for their long-term planning.
Salary: Not surprisingly, the person who manages this work, the marketing manager, is paid quite well, with an annual mean wage of $118,160.