User Support Specialist. Salary: $44,000 

This is a great place to start after college: you're setting up workstations, trouble-shooting, and learning the system from the ground up. And you're already making as much as some college professors. Not too shabby.

Database Analyst. Salary: $60,000

You're moving on up, collecting and analyzing specific data to help make the business more efficient from the sales and project perspectives. The only downside? You think your company might be doing something shady. Time to get another certification and jump ship.

Database Developer. Salary: $80,280

Expanding ranges, putting the "fun" in functionality, and migrating data from one system to the other is all part and parcel of your new—totally legal—company job. And you're getting a sweet dental plan, too.

Network and Systems Administrator. Salary: $95,000

You're setting up networks, checking server loads, and doing disaster recovery. You're already pretty high on the ladder. Hope you aren't scared of heights.

Database Administrator. Salary: $100,000

Problem-solving, removing redundancies, designing databases, and protecting info—it's just another day of being the company superhero. Could they make it without you? Not a chance.