Career | HR among highest paying jobs that don't require formal training

New data from the job search engine Adzuna has found that you can earn in excess of £39,000 with no formal training, if you get in the right industry.

One of those industries is HR, according to research of over one million live job ads that don’t require degrees.

Below is the table of unskilled, high earning jobs:

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