Also I'm motivated in like Accounting/Management/Finance sort of things. They interest me, but i dont know about how much I will be getting paid after, are they generally good choices.
Accounting/Management/Finance is apparently now the best combo for the CFO job in the future, according to the author of the upcoming ICAA/KPMG CFO of the future research report (Management coming from a MBA of course, not ugrad management)
Salary wise Management is paid the highest, but its not something you just do and get into I don't think. The average salary for a CEO would be well beyond 100K. But the thing about Management is you have to work your way up first, and its area that by its nature has people in it from all sorts of backgrounds.
Accounting and Finance are similar salaries on average. Investment Bankers get much higher than your average Accountant, and so do good dealers, but a good Accounting often gets more than a broker or data modeller. It depends on the job more so than the field. Finance probably has more variance in its pay scales. You could be a 35K analyst or a 10million a year head of department banker.
In Accounting, its unlikely you top 1 or 2 million unless you are a CFO of a top company, though you'd be hard pressed to find any Accountant with reasonable experience (2,3, years PQE) to be paid anything less than 80-90K nowadays. Those ambitious types who go for Finance Manager (the name is screwed, its really a role for Accountants) roles and above are almost always 100K+
Thats all a bit bullshitty in terms of the figures, so I wouldn't go with it much, its just a rough estimate I'm giving, through the vibe of the industry I've picked up from too many salary surveys)
Like redruM said, money isn't good to go by. Personally I'd rather be the External Administrator for say the Ajax company at the moment (i.e. Stephen Longley), rather than Frank Quattrone (a banker who was on at least $300 million a year at his peak)...but thats just me
