Dan Martell - August 16, 2026


Careers with $1M a year earning potential

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Dan Martell
Boss vs. Manager vs. Leader These AI Hacks Will Get You Ridiculously Ahead of Most People (Q&A)

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1 minute

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232.37

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391

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36

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4

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00:00:00.000 Registered nurse. 1.00
00:00:00.940 One, impossible. 0.99
00:00:02.500 There's no scenario that a nurse within a year 0.99
00:00:04.600 can make a million.
00:00:05.500 You get paid for the value solved
00:00:08.060 and unless inflation increases,
00:00:09.720 I don't think anybody's gonna pay a nurse
00:00:11.200 a million bucks a year. 0.99
00:00:12.100 Doctor.
00:00:12.600 Three, I don't even know if there's a government
00:00:14.580 that's willing to pay for an operation
00:00:16.020 for one person as a doctor to make a million bucks a year.
00:00:19.040 Software engineer.
00:00:19.960 Four out of 10.
00:00:20.920 A million new programmers a year created in the world.
00:00:24.100 What percent of them in their career
00:00:26.140 are ever gonna get paid a million dollars a year?
00:00:28.240 It's very small.
00:00:29.440 AI consultant.
00:00:30.600 Six out of 10 for most people.
00:00:32.180 For somebody to be good enough to manage themselves
00:00:34.060 productivity-wise, package their offer,
00:00:35.820 to be able to charge eight people 10 grand a month.
00:00:38.380 That's not easy.
00:00:39.240 Skilled traits, electrician, plumber, HVAC.
00:00:41.580 One.
00:00:42.280 The highest paid people in these industries
00:00:44.340 are people that are willing to work
00:00:45.660 in very dangerous situations.
00:00:47.480 A real estate agent.
00:00:48.420 Three out of 10.
00:00:49.040 You got to do $100 million a year worth of transactions.
00:00:52.040 Count them.
00:00:52.540 Two out of 10.
00:00:53.300 You'd have to be able to save me 50 million in taxes.
00:00:57.520 Teacher.
00:00:57.760 If you're really good at social media and you want to be an AI teacher, 8 out of 10.
00:01:02.060 But most people are never going to be that.
00:01:03.440 General teachers, it's a 1 out of 10.
00:01:05.560 They usually work in an environment where the salaries are set.
00:01:08.620 Sales rep, 6 out of 10.
00:01:10.160 You just got to find an opportunity to sell a product that's high demand at a high price point.
00:01:14.980 Yeah, I have a guy on my team that makes a million a year.
00:01:16.860 A lawyer, 3 out of 10.
00:01:18.200 Social media manager, 4 out of 10 with the potential as long as you're getting paid for performance.
00:01:23.280 Financial advisor, 4 out of 10.
00:01:25.380 Falls in the same bucket as a real estate agent.
00:01:27.020 content creator three out of 10 most of them suck at brand deals they suck at building a brand they
00:01:32.080 suck at being consistent real estate broker eight what is one that you would say is a 10
00:01:36.520 ai data scientist it's just you're gonna have to go to school for like eight years and get a phd in 0.97