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Current position: Executive director, Providence ElderPlace Seattle.
Current position: Principal, Group Design Leader, MulvannyG2 Architecture, Bellevue.
Over her 20-year career at The Westin in downtown Seattle, Kim Williams has puffed more pillows than she can count — but her job is anything but cushy. As one of the 14,157 housecleaners serving hotel and motel guests in the greater King/Snohomish counties area, Williams is part of the team that has the often grueling task of tidying rooms for many of the nearly 8.73 million overnight guests King County sees each year. In downtown Seattle alone, this covers 9,797 nightly guest rooms.
Current position: General manager, Trader Vic's Bellevue Restaurant.
Current position: Executive vice president consulting, Baldwin Resource Group in Bellevue, a diversified professional-services firm that specializes in business consulting, risk management, commercial insurance and employee-benefits and wealth management.
The average annual pay for a dentist in the Seattle area is $120,000, with most making from about $100,000 to $144,000 a year.
For many older Americans, finding a doctor who specializes in caring for their myriad of chronic later-life aches is as much a pain as the ailments themselves. And from the looks of it, there's no cure in sight for the anemic number of physicians who specialize in geriatrics. But that means good career opportunities for such doctors, making it another area of demand in the field of health care, which has been best-known to job seekers in recent years as a place to find work as a nurse.
Current position: Senior associate, PRR, a communications, marketing, public-relations, design and public-affairs consultancy, with offices in Seattle and Washington, D.C.
The median salary for a patrol officer in the Seattle area is $42,691, with most making from about $31,000 to $52,000.