Like every year, the job specializing in employment, Indeed, has published its classification of the best paid trades in France. And a job stands out for its significant salary despite a few years of study.
The job tender site Indeed unveiled its 2025 ranking of the best paid professions in France. A study based on the salaries of the French, between May 2024 and April 2025, which highlighted the 20 professions which hold the top of the pavement.
First blatant observation, the attractiveness of health and digital sectors is no longer to be proven. On the first step of the podium, we thus find the profession of dentist; With an annual remuneration around 95,000 euros, it remains the best paid job in France. And he is closely followed by one of his colleagues, the orthodontist, who earns an average of 78,750 euros per year. In third position, there is a job that moves away from the medical community since it is the network architect, the specialist in digital connection in business. With an annual median salary of 72,361 euros, he has something to attract new candidates.
But, this year, it is the fourth best paid job in France that has attracted all our attention. And for good reason, it requires quite a few years of study. With an average salary revolving around 70,000 euros per year, it is a subtle mixture of business and medical. It is a profession of contact whose aim is to establish links between the pharmaceutical industry and health professionals such as doctors and pharmacists. Attached to a laboratory, he is responsible for highlighting his drugs. We are talking here about the profession of medical delegate.
Promoting drugs to those who will be led to prescribe them, or sell them, is therefore the main mission of the medical delegate. Who is a kind of health salesperson! And to become a medical delegate, and earn up to 70,000 euros per year, the process is quite simple: once the baccalaureate in your pocket, you will have to pass a university diploma, such as a professional license, preferably. So count one to three years of study only before they can claim a position like this. To your CVs!
