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Top 20 jobs with the biggest salary increases this year

In a Wednesday, March 18, 2015, file photo, Holly Ainslie, a barista at a Starbucks store in Seattle, puts a "Race Together" sticker on a customer's cup. Starbucks baristas will no longer write "Race Together" on customers' cups starting March 22, 2015, ending as planned a visible component of the company's diversity and racial inequality campaign, according to a memo.
In a Wednesday, March 18, 2015, file photo, Holly Ainslie, a barista at a Starbucks store in Seattle, puts a "Race Together" sticker on a customer's cup. Starbucks baristas will no longer write "Race Together" on customers' cups starting March 22, 2015, ending as planned a visible component of the company's diversity and racial inequality campaign, according to a memo.
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Oct 7, 2015

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Are you a barista?

Maybe you're a chef or restaurant cook?

If so, you can look forward to growing your bank accounts.

Glassdoor just released a list of the top 20 jobs with the biggest pay raises.

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Salaries for these jobs have grown up to 10 percent over the past year, much more than the national average increase of 2.2 percent.

Here's the full list:

Business systems analyst

Sales consultant

Pharmacy technician

Barista

Customer service manager

Certified nursing assistant

Financial analyst

Systems analyst

Personal banker

Research scientist

Programmer analyst

Branch manager

Cashier

Project engineer

Cook

Software engineer

Web developer

Network engineer

Security officer

For more information including the total pay for each job, the percentage increase in total pay and the number of job openings for each role, click here.

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