Tommy Walker always knew he wanted to travel.

Living in a small, working class town in Northeast England, the now 29-year-old remembers dreaming of somewhere exotic, somewhere "far, far away from here" as a child, he told Business Insider.

In his early 20s, he finally got the chance to go. Tired of a 9-5 corporate job at a product management company, he bought a ticket to Sweden, intending to work his way down by the Eurorail to explore the continent.

Then, his dad got sick, and he postponed his trip, settling for shorter-term stays instead.

In 2011, his father died, leaving Walker and his brother an inheritance through his workplace that Walker chose to split into pieces: about 60% on longer-term investments, and 30% on travel, starting with an ambitious trip to Southeast Asia.

He acknowledges that some people might consider his windfall a stroke of luck, but says he wishes some things had turned out differently. "Sure, I got an inheritance," he said, "but at the end of the day it's my father. It's no compensation for what happened, but obviously, it helped me get to where I am today."

His inheritance stopped fully funding his travels — which you can follow via Facebook, Instagram, or through his website — before the first of four years was up. Since then, he's been in a cycle of working, saving, and traveling. "I've always been lucky enough to find work and make money," he said, "so once I started this travel journey, I always felt that I'd always find money if I wanted to buy something later on."

Below, Walker explained the gritty reality behind long-term travel, why you don't need a windfall to leave home, and how he now affords to stay on the road.

SEE ALSO: A 31-year-old who's been traveling the world for 5 years explains how she affords it

Walker started his adventure with a ticket to Bangkok, to backpack Southeast Asia. He chose his destination in part because his father, a Buddhist, wished later in life that he would have traveled more.

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In Bangkok, Thailand.

"That feeling of being in Asia, I'll never get that back," Walker reflected. "Any traveler who’s been traveling for more than two years will say you can't get that initial feeling back — you're naive and you don't really know a lot, and everything is new and there's no expectation. Southeast Asia is perfect for that, because it's so different to Western culture. It's such an incredible vortex to be pushed into."

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In India.

After 10 months backpacking Southeast Asia, Walker moved to Australia to find a job and shore up his savings again. He ended up in Melbourne with two: a day job working in IT, and a part-time gig as a host at a restaurant.

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In Melbourne, Australia.

Private colleges tend to be more expensive than their public counterparts.

However, at the following schools, the payoff is worth the extra cost.

PayScale, the creator of the world's largest compensation database, recently looked at the starting and mid-career pay for over a million college grads — including professionals who graduated with a bachelor's from 963 colleges and universities.

For its College Salary Report, which was compiled using data from employees who successfully completed PayScale's employee survey, PayScale sorted the results by college major, degree, college, and type of school.

Students with a bachelor's degree from these private colleges go on to earn the highest salaries 10-plus years into their career:

SEE ALSO: 25 college majors with the highest starting salaries

18. Wabash College

Early career median pay: $59,000

Mid-career median pay: $121,000

Alumni who believe their work makes the world a better place: 55%

Undergraduate enrollment: 926

16. (tie) Williams College

Early career median pay: $54,900

Mid-career median pay: $122,000

Alumni who believe their work makes the world a better place: 56%

Undergraduate enrollment: 2,072

16. (tie) Santa Clara University

Early career median pay: $62,500

Mid-career median pay: $122,000

Alumni who believe their work makes the world a better place: 49%

Undergraduate enrollment: 5,486

Contrary to popular belief, it’s not intelligence or education that holds back the average person from getting rich.

It’s the middle-class beliefs around money that keep them struggling to survive in a world of abundance. That’s why the wealthy consciously build beliefs about money that serve their best interests and help them develop substantial sums.

If you truly want world-class wealth, copy the beliefs of the wealthy, knowing you will eventually begin to behave based on those beliefs.

While most people are searching for the answers on the outside, the great ones know building wealth starts on the inside. First you build world-class beliefs around money, then you take action based on those beliefs. Your results will follow your actions.

Here are eight quotes that will change your outlook on money, and put you in the right frame of mind to earn more of it.

SEE ALSO: I'm a self-millionaire— here are 7 things I think everyone should understand about money

“Self-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.” 

— Patricia Sampson

You have two choices when it comes to money: believe that it is the responsibility of other people to take care of you, or believe that every citizen in a free market economy has the opportunity to become wealthy.

Self-made millionaires believe in self-reliance as a guiding principle in their lives. When you drop the victim’s mentality and take responsibility, you are free to make as much money as you want.

“Wealth flows from energy and ideas.”

— William Feather

Figuratively speaking, money does grow on trees; and the trees are ideas. As long as man walks the earth, he will have problems that need to be solved by creative ideas. And the more problems the performer solves, the richer she becomes.

So, while the average person is operating from the faulty belief that money is scarce and difficult to earn, the rich are operating on the belief that money is abundant and earning it is as easy as solving a problem through persistent, creative thought.

“Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper’s bell of an approaching looter.”

— Ayn Rand

The average person has been brainwashed to believe rich people are lucky or dishonest. The biblical passage that states the love of money is the root of all evil has been misquoted to say that money itself is the root of all evil.

As a result of poor programming and ignorance, most people focus on lack and limitation regarding money and are uneducated about what it means to be wealthy. Decide to be proud of your ambition, and ignore people who tell you that wanting to be rich is wrong.

On October 3, 1992, Barack Obama married Michelle Robinson.

Since Barack became President of the United States in 2008, the Obamas have captured our hearts with their love for one another. Obama mentions his wife in almost every speech he gives, and often showers her with PDA, even when the cameras are rolling.

To celebrate the Obamas' 24th wedding anniversary, we have collected a few of our favorite photos of their most romantic moments.

Barack and Michelle Obama were married on October 3, 1992. Michelle worked as a Chicago city government as an assistant to the mayor while Barack taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School.

Here's the night where Obama formally announced his campaign for US President in the 2008 election on February 10, 2007.

Campaigning at the Iowa State Fair in 2007, Barack gives his wife a playful kiss.

Water crises are the biggest risk in the next 10 years, according to a World Economic Forum survey of experts released in January.

When you look at the big picture, it's not surprising. In short, we don’t have enough fresh water, and things are getting worse.

Four billion people already face severe water scarcity at least one month each year, according to a recent study. Supply will tighten as populations grow and demand rises for not only drinking water but also use in manufacturing, electricity, and more. At the same time, the world faces rising temperatures and many areas will suffer declining precipitation.

 We’ve gathered some worrying insights on what's coming.

SEE ALSO: The first foods that will disappear in a water crisis

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Four billion people already face water scarcity at least 1 month of the year.

Source: Mekonnen, Mesfin M. and Arjen Y. Hoekstra (2016), "Four billion people facing severe water scarcity" in "Science Advances."

Things will get a lot worse by 2050. Extreme water scarcity is expected to cover nearly all of the Middle East, large parts of Africa and Asia, and significant parts of the Americas too.

Source: UN World Water Development Report 2012

Global freshwater demand is expected to rise around 50% from 2000 to 2050. Most of that will be for manufacturing and energy.

Source: UN World Water Development Report 2016

Each year in music, one album stands out from the crowd as the most critically acclaimed work of the year.

Since the turn of the new century, review aggregator Metacritic has compiled an annual list of the year's most well-received albums by assigning scores based on their composite critical reception.

We selected the top album from each year starting with 2000, and the resulting list includes some expected appearances from great artists like Bob Dylan, Brian Wilson, and Kanye West, as well as a few lesser-known but incredible LPs. 

Check out the best album of each year in the new century so far:

SEE ALSO: The 50 best-selling albums of all time

2000: Outkast — "Stankonia"

Metacritic score: 95/100

User score: 8.9/10

What critics said: "Stankonia reeks of artful ambition rendered with impeccable skill — or as one song title so concisely has it, 'So Fresh, So Clean.'"— Entertainment Weekly

Notable songs:"So Fresh, So Clean,""Ms. Jackson,""B.O.B."

2001: Bob Dylan — "Love and Theft"

Metacritic score: 93/100

User score: 8.8/10

What critics said: "The remarkable achievement of 'Love and Theft' is that Dylan makes the past sound as strange, haunted and alluring as the future."— Rolling Stone

Notable songs:"Mississippi,""Bye and Bye,""High Water (For Charley Patton)"

2002: The Streets — "Original Pirate Material"

Metacritic score: 90/100

User score: 8.9/10

What critics said: "'Original Pirate Material' is England's first great hip-hop record mostly because it isn't a hip-hop record. It's hard to say exactly what it is."— Village Voice

Notable songs:"Has It Come To This?,""Let's Push Things Forward,""Weak Become Heros"

Marie Kondo is a Japanese lifestyle celebrity who has the miraculous ability to help people declutter their homes for good.

She’s written two books —"The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up" and "Spark Joy"— and even earned a spot on Time's 2015 "Top 100 Influential People" list. 

Kondo helps her clients and readers tidy their homes with the ‘KonMari Method’ that she says has been honed since she was an organization-obsessed teenager in Japan.

The trick? Only keep things that “spark joy” or make you feel happy. If something in your home doesn’t spark joy, Kondo believes you should thank it for its service in your life and get rid of it.

To find out how to apply this technique, keep reading to see 19 easy steps on how to ‘Kondo’ your home.

Marie Kondo believes you should purge your home of everything that doesn't spark joy. By tidying all at once, “you can dramatically change your mind-set.”

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Before you start tidying, visualize how you want your place and your life to look. “Think in concrete terms so that you can vividly picture what it would be like to live in a clutter-free space,” she writes in "Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up."

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In her new book “Spark Joy,” Kondo recognizes the importance of creating your own zen space — whether it’s your bedroom, kitchen, or a corner of a room — where it will make you happy and give you energy.

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We all have annoying habits, and travel tends to bring out the worst in people.

If you have any sympathy for your flight attendants, who, day in and day out, are privy to some of the most extreme human behavior, you'd make a concerted effort to avoid them.

The first step is knowing just what you're doing wrong.

Luckily for you, we asked flight attendants everywhere to share the annoying things they wish passengers would stop doing, and more than 60 were happy to chime in.

Here are 21 things you may not have even known you were doing wrong:

DON'T MISS: Flight attendants share 22 things they'd love to tell passengers but can't

SEE ALSO: Here are some of the most bizarre things flight attendants have seen in their line of duty

Hogging the overhead bins

"Put the suitcases in the overhead and put your small bags underneath the seat in front so we don't have to run out of space and have to check bags."

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Not saying, 'hello'

"I wish passengers would acknowledge the crew when they board."

Poor timing

"Stop trying to hand us trash on the beverage cart or asking us to take your trash while we're handing out food."

In the six years since college graduation, I've learned a few things — not including how to roast vegetables, or that New York City post offices are to be avoided at all costs.

Consider them more ... hard truths about life.

I'm not for a moment saying I know close to everything, or even most things. In fact, I probably don't even know what I don't know. (Wait for my follow-up post a decade from now: "Everything I thought I'd learned by age 28 was completely wrong.")

But along the way, a few things have become clear to me.

SEE ALSO: 14 ways I trick myself into going to the gym

There's no such thing as 'shy'

Growing up, I wouldn't ever raise my hand in class because everyone would look at me. I was that kid who covered her ears when people sang "happy birthday." I blushed at the drop of the hat (I still do) and I never accepted anything adults offered me because I was desperate not to inconvenience them.

I was shy.

But one day — I can't put my finger on when — I realized that "shy" is not an excuse that carries into adulthood. Think back to the last time you saw an acquaintance who didn't say hi, or you hung out with someone who didn't say more than two sentences in a group. Remember the person who wouldn't meet your eyes, or mumbled, or gave you one of those awful limp-wrist handshakes.

Did you think "oh, that poor person, he/she must be shy!" No, you didn't. You thought something along the lines of: "What a jerk."

Eventually, no matter how hard it is, you have to consider how your shyness makes the people around you feel and how it makes them view you. It isn't good. At some point, you just have to get over it.

(I understand it's a different issue for people with severe and diagnosed social anxiety, and I can't begin to imagine how that feels. This insight is for those with garden-variety anxiety — of the ducking-down-grocery-store-aisles-to-not-say-hi type.)

Nothing will change if you don't change anything

I tell myself this whenever an opportunity is on the horizon: a new project, a new job, a new date, a new apartment.

If you want something different, it's up to you to go out and seek it. You can wait for a change to fall into your lap, but you're probably going to be waiting a long time — and frankly, the type of changes that fall into your lap are rarely good.

Everything is temporary

On a similar note, everything is temporary. You will only be this age, living here, with this job, with this team, in this state of health, in this state of mental health, for so long. 

You could choose to see this as a bad thing (Happiness is fleeting! Things will never be this good again!), but I consider it reassuring in two ways. Firstly, knowing that your life won't always be this good forever inspires gratitude for the things that are going well right now. Secondly, if things aren't good, you can take comfort in knowing that things won't always be so bad.

Working for a candy company can be pretty sweet— especially if your employer is Mars.

According to employees at Mars Chocolate — a segment of the $33 billion Mars candy, pet care, and beverage company — the free Snickers and M&Ms aren't even the best part of their job.

"Mars Chocolate is a truly unique place to work," one associate told Business Insider during a visit to the Hackettstown, New Jersey, office in May 2016. "Everyone is passionate about the work they are doing — and the people are incredible. We are one big family and that's not something you get everywhere."

Mars — which was ranked on Fortune's "100 Best Companies To Work For" list in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 — employs 72,000 people (who they call "associates") worldwide and over 25,000 in the US. About 16,000 of those global associates work for Mars Chocolate.

Here are some photos from our tour of the Mars Chocolate North America office in Hackettstown:

SEE ALSO: Meet the woman who makes a living taste-testing chocolate for a $33 billion candy company

Four friendly M&Ms greet you at the main entrance of the building.

Of the 16,000 Mars Chocolate associates around the globe, about 1,200 of them are in Hackettstown.

Mars Chocolate produces 29 candy brands in total, including the billion-dollar global brands M&M's, Snickers, Dove, Milky Way, and Twix. The Mars Chocolate North America campus is also home to the M&M's factory, where 50% of all M&M's sold in the US are made. When you walk through the front doors of the office building, giant M&M's greet you with bins of complimentary candy.

"We can do it!"

That's the slogan that appeared alongside fictional icon "Rosie the Riveter" during the famous WWII-era advertising campaign targeted toward American women on the home front.

"Rosie" was just one part of the US propaganda effort to encourage women to take on traditionally male-dominated occupations — especially in the field of war supply production — as mass conscription depleted the workforce.

The message took hold. By 1945, almost one out of four married women worked outside the home, according to History.com. However, once peace was restored, many women found themselves ousted from their wartime jobs.

Here are pictures of some of the real life women who helped make the war effort possible, all taken from 1941 to 1943. These images and captions are all courtesy of the Library of Congress.

SEE ALSO: Hitler's secret Nazi war machines of World War II

Assembly and Repairs Department supervisor Virginia Young (right) lost her husband during the attack on Pearl Harbor. She watches as Ethel Mann (left) operates an electric drill.

Former housewife Lucile Mazurek assembles black-out lamps at Heil and Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Riveters work on a Liberator Bomber fuselage.

It's no secret that people of all ages love reading Young Adult (YA) books even though they're meant for ages 12 to 18, but New Adult (NA) fiction is the best genre you've never heard of.

Targeted at ages 18 to 30, New Adult bridges the age gap between Young Adult and Adult novels.

NA deals with common themes of self-discovery, emerging independence, and complicated relationships, but without the backdrop of high school hallways or impending middle age. Protagonists are college students and recent graduates — no college application angst. They have their own apartments — no white picket fences yet. Sometimes they're single parents. Sometimes they've never had a partner at all.

With its older audience, it can also take more risks than YA. NA often contains bold sexual content and explores mental health struggles like depression, anxiety, substance abuse, and suicide. There are also hints of subjects that would bore older adults to sleep but feel all too real to 20-somethings, like financial independence.

Here are 10 NA novels you don't want to miss.

"Easy" by Tammara Webber

"Easy" is the quintessential NA book, and in many ways set the standard for what a good one is.

Sophomore Jacqueline narrowly escapes an attempted assault thanks to a mysterious boy who sits in the back of her econ class. As she learns more about him, she also learns to fight back. '

As a former undergraduate academic adviser, Webber's depiction of campus life is spot-on. Every college-aged person should read this book, both for its important lessons about consent and the swoon-inducing romance between Jacqueline and Lucas.

Buy it here

"Slammed" by Colleen Hoover

An NA classic that straddles YA, "Slammed" weaves breathtaking poetry through a deeply romantic story shaped by loss, confusion, and hope.

Layken and Will immediately hit it off after their first date to a poetry slam. When the truth comes out about who they both are, they're forced to remain apart and communicate only through stolen moments and rhythmic lines. 

There will be more Colleen Hoover to come in this roundup, since she's an incredibly prolific NA author who seems to pop out books faster than her beloved "CoHorts" can read them. 

Buy it here

"Just One Day" by Gayle Forman

This book screams NA. Post-graduation solo travel? Check. Relationships with best friends changing when you no longer live in the same place? Check. Wanting to please your parents but be your own person? Check. Feeling inadequate when you don't have your life together the way you thought you would? Check.

Getting lost, but ultimately understanding yourself better as a result? But of course.

Buy it here

At its event on Wednesday, Google made a slew of announcements about its new home products, including Daydream View, its virtual reality headset launching in November.

The headset, which is made of a soft fabric and foam rather than hard plastic, launches in November for $79. You'll need a Daydream-compatible smartphone to use it, since that's what functions as the headset's screen. As of right now, the only phone that's confirmed to work with Daydream is Google's own smartphone, the Pixel.

Here are all the apps, games, and video content Google announced for Daydream VR:

SEE ALSO: Google's got a new virtual reality headset — this is 'Daydream View'

The "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" VR experience turns the Pixel's remote into a magic wand.

"Gunjack" is a space shooter from the developers of "EVE Online" that's also coming to other VR headsets.

Other games announced for Daydream include "Wonderglade,""LEGO BrickHeadz,""Mekorama,""Need for Speed,""EarthShape,""Danger Goat,""Home Run Derby" and "Hungry Shark World."

A VR version of "Star Chart" converts your remote into a laser pointer, letting you gesture at various stars and constellations to learn more about them.

In the early 1900s, Ellis Island served as the United States' largest immigration station, processing up to 12 million immigrants between the years 1892 and 1954.

One amateur photographer by the name of Augustus Sherman, who served as Ellis Island's chief registry clerk sometime between 1906 and 1917, photographed a handful of immigrants who passed through. According to the New York Public Library, his subjects were most likely asked to wear their best holiday finery or national dress. 

These stunning portraits, originally published in National Geographic in 1907, have now been brought back to life and colorized by Jordan Lloyd of Dynamichrome. Lloyd's technique includes historical research for accuracy, as well as retouching at an expert level. His book "The Paper Time Machine," includes these portraits, and is currently raising funds to be published.

All captions are by Dynamichrome.

SEE ALSO: 23 fascinating photos that show how presidential elections have changed since the 1960s

"Gákti is the traditional costume of the Sámi people inhabiting the arctic regions spanning from northern Norway to the Kola peninsula in Russia. Traditionally made from reindeer leather and wool, velvet and silks are also used, with the (typically blue) pullover being supplemented by contrasting colored banding of plaits, brooches and jewelry."

"The decorations are region-specific and the gákti is used in ceremonial contexts such as weddings, or signified whether or not one was single or married, but also served as working dress when herding reindeer."

"Hailing from the Germanic-speaking region of Alsace now in modern day France, the large bow known as a schlupfkàpp was worn by single women."

The final quarter of 2016 is set up to be one of the year's most exciting.

Third-quarter earnings season will unofficially start next week, and it is expected to mark the sixth straight quarter that the largest public companies report a decline in profits, according to FactSet.

In November, Americans will vote in one of the most contentious presidential elections in modern history.

And in December, the Federal Reserve could raise its benchmark interest rate for only the second time in this economic cycle.

These events and others will be huge for markets. This quarterly guide from David Kelly and his team at JPMorgan Asset Management provides a bird's-eye view of where we stand, and will inform what should be top of mind right now.

Thanks to JPMorgan Asset Management for giving us permission to feature this presentation.

Google announced two new smartphones called Pixel and Pixel XL on Tuesday.

As you could probably guess, the Pixel "XL" is the larger of the models, but both models differ from each other in some other subtle ways.

SEE ALSO: The limited edition 'Really Blue' Google Pixel phone is already sold out

The regular Pixel has a 5-inch display. The Pixel XL has a 5.5-inch display.

The screens also differ on resolution. The Pixel has a 1080p screen, and the Pixel XL features a sharper 1440p display.

Google rates the Pixel's battery life for up to up to 26 hours of talk time; the Pixel XL gets around 32 hours.

You don't need a pet tiger or private island to live luxuriously.

As thousands of Redditors recently avowed in an AskReddit thread, sometimes high-quality toilet paper and a soothing cup of tea can make you feel sufficiently pampered.

Here are some easy, cheap ways to live the high life for next to nothing:

Adding a memory-foam mattress topper to your bed can provide added comfort, and it costs far less than a new mattress.

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Brewing coffee in a French press is simpler and, some say, offers a richer flavor than traditionally brewed coffee.

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Subscribing to a streaming services like Netflix or Spotify Premium gives you access to huge catalogs of TV shows, movies, and music for around $10 a month.

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One of the most common refrains this election season — and every election season, really — is people swearing they'll move to Canada, a land where healthcare is free, people are friendly, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explains quantum computing just for laughs.

But to actually become a Canadian citizen, you'll first need to go through several steps, like living in the country for at least six years, staying on your best behavior, and knowing a thing or two about the country you'll soon call home.

For those who actually want to head up north, here's how you move to Canada.

SEE ALSO: How to move to Sweden and live in the future

Preface: Make sure you're not already a Canadian citizen.

Before you go through the hassle of applying for citizenship, take a short quiz to see if you may already be Canadian.

The government outlines several caveats for being a citizen even if you weren't born there, many of which depend on your parents' citizenship. Maybe you secretly inherited their status at some point along the way.

Be at least 18 years old.

If you're not a legal adult, you've got an uphill climb ahead of you.

Minors need their parent or legal guardian to fill out the application for them; they need to be permanent residents in Canada (more on that later); and the parent must either be a citizen or applying to become one at the same time.

Or enter the pool for skilled immigrants.

Canada has a fast-track system for immigration called Express Entry. It's how skilled workers transition into a role in the country.

All applicants into Express Entry are given specific scores based on their specific talents and job prospects and then ranked with other applicants. Those at the top of the rankings are invited to become permanent residents.

How much is Hollywood shelling out for its top TV talent? 

In this age of wall-to-wall TV programming, stars have become essential in bringing sizable audiences to shows.

Variety talked to actors, executives, agents, managers, attorneys, and others who are in the know about how much TV stars are making these days and found that the gap between the salaries of main stars and supporting ones has become larger.

Star salaries can range from $1 million an episode for the main players of CBS's "Big Bang Theory" to as small as $20,000 per episode for the actors who play the Lyon kids on Fox's "Empire."

Here's a look at the biggest salaries across comedy, drama, and reality/news/talk series*:

*Salaries are per episode, unless otherwise indicated. Some salaries may include producing fees and profit participation.

SEE ALSO: Here's how much money reality TV stars actually make on shows — it's not what you think

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$1,000,000 — Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS)

$1,000,000 — Kaley Cuoco, "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS)

$1,000,000 — Johnny Galecki, "The Big Bang Theory" (CBS)

The gender wage gap is pervasive in many industries, especially those still dominated by men.

But there are some fields where women not only make up a high percentage of the workforce, but they earn competitive pay doing it.

PayScale recently looked at occupations with the highest median pay for women with five to eight years of experience. To highlight jobs in which women frequently work, only those where at least 40% of workers identified as female were included.

A number of well-paying healthcare occupations feature high concentrations of women. More than 90% of nurse practitioners and almost half of general physicians are women, for example.

Check out the full list of jobs where women earn the most:

SEE ALSO: Women are rarely picked to be CEO, and it's not because they're all dropping out to have babies

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20. Category manager

They determine the layout of products in a store.

Percentage of women: 42%

Median pay: $90,400

19. User experience researcher

They investigate ways to improve the end-user interaction with computer programs to increase satisfaction, brand loyalty, and overall use.

Percentage of women: 65%

Median pay: $91,300

18. Senior operations project manager

They fulfill important oversight positions for large firms or companies.

Percentage of women: 42%

Median pay: $91,700