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More jobs offer $100K a year, according to new analysis of salaries in the South

By Leoneda Inge,

Published January 29, 2024 at 1:32 PM EST

Salaries in certain industries in the South increased significantly during the pandemic recovery – and some of them reached the coveted $100,000 per year mark for the first time.

Joanne Drilling, National Data Reporter for American City Business Journals, ran the numbers and joins co-host Leoneda Inge to talk about what types of jobs offer six-figure salaries in Charlotte, the Triangle, and other regions, where the increases continued or cooled in 2023, and what the forecast looks like for 2024.

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Joanne Drilling, National Data Reporter, American City Business Journals

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Leoneda Inge

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.

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Rachel McCarthy

Rachel McCarthy is a producer for "Due South." She previously worked at WUNC as a producer for "The Story with Dick Gordon." More recently, Rachel was podcast managing editor at Capitol Broadcasting Company where she developed narrative series and edited a daily podcast. She also worked at "The Double Shift" podcast as supervising producer. Rachel learned about audio storytelling at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. Prior to working in audio journalism, she was a research assistant at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC.

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