1 The highest-paying non-healthcare jobs are chief executives ($78.13), airline pilots/copilots/flight engineers ($66.00), engineering managers ($60.33), geoscientists ($57.45), and petroleum engineers ($56.59).  Far and away the best job on this chart is petroleum engineers. It has grown by 33%, adding almost 4,000 jobs in the past five years. Even more impressive is its location quotient (LQ) of 6.49, which means that these engineering jobs are more than six times as concentrated in Texas as they are in other states.