A.T. Kearney is an American global management consulting firm that focuses on strategic and operational CEO-agenda issues facing businesses, governments and institutions around the globe. The consulting company is nearly a century old and boasts its worked with more than 75% of Fortune’s Global 500 companies. Its median total salary is $175,000, slightly more than second place Strategy& ($172,000), a consulting firm working in the automotive, chemicals and aerospace and defense industries among others. Next were the multi-faceted VMware ($167,050), which specializes in cloud computing and storage among other services; the machine-data specialists at Splunk ($161,010) and Cadence Design Systems ($156,702), which touts its work with electronic design automation and semiconductor intellectual property. Google, with a median total compensation of $155,250, placed sixth on this year's list, followed by Facebook with a median pay of $155,000.

Twenty-four of the businesses atop the job search website Glassdoor's 2017 list of the 25 Highest Paying Companies in America were either tech or business companies. The positions at tech and consulting companies, share two characteristics that warrant high pay. They require a skill set in which demand highly outpaces supply and cannot be replaced by computers or robots. Glassdoor created the report using salary reports from employees who anonymously and voluntarily shared their pay over the last year.

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