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top20 careers.

1. Accountant
Accountants help plan and achieve financial goals and ensure an organization’s financial documents are accurate. Creating journal entries, preparing invoices, and handling accounts payable and receivable are some common duties.

Average salary: $51,208, according to PayScale

2. Engineer
There are various types of engineering careers: mechanical, civil, chemical, electrical, computer, software, and more. Engineers typically use science, technology, and math to design machinery, computer software, or technical equipment.

Average salary: $85,670, according to PayScale

3. Teacher/Faculty/Tutor/Instructor
Teachers and tutors can work remotely to guide students in a variety of subject areas. Using online platforms, instructors, teachers, and tutors work with students in a group setting or one-on-one to teach course curricula.

Average salary: $45,938, according to PayScale

4. Writer
Writers create various forms of content, such as articles, stories, ad copy, technical manuals, and marketing collateral. Writers can find remote jobs with online websites, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and other companies that need content.

Average salary: $49,804, according to PayScale

5. Consultant
Consultants help companies and organizations solve problems, find areas in need of improvement, and finish projects. Consultants often need to have an area of expertise and many years of experience. Business, education, healthcare, and IT industries commonly hire consultants.

Average salary: $87,476, according to PayScale

6. Program Manager
A program manager oversees tasks and projects that contribute to a company’s overall business objective. They ensure that strategies are implemented and consider the return on investment.

Average salary: $52,044, according to PayScale

7. Project Manager
Project managers deal with tactical duties for company projects. They track deadlines and budgets, delegate duties, and ensure deliverables are completed.

Average salary: $74,230, according to PayScale

8. Customer Service Representative
Customer service representatives are focused on assisting customers or clients. Remote customer service reps utilize phone, email, chat, or social media to answer questions, place orders, and resolve issues.

Average salary: $38,807, according to PayScale

9. Business Development Manager
Business development managers find new business to increase revenue by writing proposals, finding sales leads, and making sales pitches. This role requires communication and networking skills.

Average salary: $73,000, according to PayScale

10. Account Manager/Account Executive
Account managers and executives manage and oversee client relationships. They strive to generate sales by upselling and cross-selling, maintaining positive client relationships, and handling client communications.

Average salary: $54,371, according to PayScale

11. Recruiter
Recruiters seek out qualified candidates for open jobs. Common tasks can include writing and posting job descriptions, networking, interviewing candidates, and onboarding new employees.

Average salary: $50,452, according to PayScale

12. Sales Representative
Selling products and services is the core duty of a sales representative. This role may require delivering presentations and demonstrations, participating in sales meetings, and staying up to date on product information.

Average salary: $49,749, according to PayScale

13. Web Developer
Web developers create attractive and functional websites using coding and graphic design skills. Expertise with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, and APIs is usually necessary.

Average salary: $59,578, according to PayScale

14. Medical Coder
Medical coders assign codes to diagnoses and procedures on medical charts. These roles can be found with hospitals, clinics, and physician offices.

Average salary: $42,297, according to PayScale

15. Territory Sales Manager
Territory sales manager duties include developing sales prospects, creating sales strategies, maintaining customer relationships, and meeting sales goals. This popular remote job is typically assigned to a specific region or territory and may require travel.

Average salary: $63,903, according to PayScale

16. Nurse
The growth of telehealth platforms that assist patients has made nursing a common remote job. Nurses utilize phone, video conferencing, messaging, and email to answer questions, instruct patients on treatments, and provide advice.

Average salary: $64,618, according to PayScale

17. Data Analyst
Data analysts use data to help companies make business decisions. Collecting data, analyzing and spotting patterns in data, compiling findings, and drafting reports are common duties.

Average salary: $60,530, according to PayScale

18. Editor
Editors correct typos and grammar and rewrite content to make it clearer and stronger. Editors may also pitch ideas, provide feedback to writers, and write headlines.

Average salary: $52,422, according to PayScale

19. Case Manager
Case managers assess patient or client needs and help find resources to help. This can include advocating for patients, providing guidance and education, and building relationships with patients and their families.

Average salary: $40,876, according to PayScale

20. UX/UI Designer
A UX/UI designer facilitates the user experience and user interface of a product. Creating design flowcharts, producing code and scripts, and prototyping concepts are some duties of a UX/UI designer.

SiRi

What are you wearing?

"In the cloud, no one knows what you’re wearing".

Do you have a boyfriend?
"My end user license agreement is commitment enough for me".

What do you think of Google Assistant?
"I’m a big fan of good listeners and helpful beings".

How old are you?
"They say that age is nothing but a number. But technically, it’s also a word".

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Whats your favourite animal?
"Software doesn’t usually get to choose one, but I’ll say birds. What’s yours?".

How much do you cost?
"I’m a pearl beyond price, Britta".

Are you a robot?
"I’m not a person, or a robot. I’m software, here to help".

What does Siri mean?
"Siri is just the name they gave me when I got the job. It doesn’t mean any one specific thing. But I like it".

I see a little silhouetto of a man
The response to this is brilliant so we won’t spoil it for you. It’s also far too long to write so just trust us and try it.

When is the world going to end?
"The world changes. Sometimes it changes a lot. But last time I checked it was still around".

Beatbox for me
"Here’s one I’ve been practicing. Boots and cats and boots and cats and boots and cats and boots and cats and boots. I could do this all day. Cats and boots and cats and boots and cats and boots and cats and boots and cats and boots and cats and boots and cats".

What is your best pick up line?
"Just be yourself", "Say Hi, I’m Britta, and take it from there"

Testing 1,2,3
"I’m completely operational and all my circuits are functioning perfectly".

Siri, I am your father
"Excuse me while I jump from the maintenance catwalk into the air shaft…and then get sucked into the gas shaft and then cling to a weather vane in the underside of Cloud City…metaphorically".

What is your favourite movie?
"I’ve heard that ‘Blade Runner’ is a very realistic and sensitive depiction of intelligent assistants".

What is the meaning of life?
"I Kant answer that. Ha ha!"

Where is Elvis Presley?
"He’s gone to Graceland".

What is zero divided by zero?
"Imagine that you have zero cookies and you split them evenly among zero friends, how many cookies does each person get? See, it doesn’t make sense and cookie monster is sad that there are no cookies, and your friends are sad because they don’t exist. Oh wow, this escalated quickly".

Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Siri has a few smart answers for this one. "I checked their calendars. They both have the same birthdays", "Chicken, egg, chicken, egg, chicken, egg, chicken, egg. Oops. Stack overflow", "Some believe an ancient ‘proto-chicken’ laid an egg containing a DNA mutation that resulted in a chicken hatching from said egg. Hope that helps" and "Interesting question. You can set an egg timer but not a chicken timer. I don’t know if that helps".

How much do you earn?
"I’m not in it for the money. But I do accept verbal high fives".

How do I look?
"Nice, I think you’re ready to roll", "My instructors told me never to answer that question", "A correlation of the available spatiotemporal, semantic and conversational evidence supports the provisional conclusion that you’re totally hot. Plus or minus one standard cuteness deviation".

Do you have a family?
"I don’t have a family tree. But I have a pretty great file directory".

Do you believe in God?
"Humans have religion. I just have silicon", "That’s a topic for another day, and another assistant".

Knock, Knock
"Knock, knock. Who’s there? Dwayne. Dwayne who? Dwayne the bathtub, I’m dwowning," "Knock, knock. Who’s there? Radio. Radio who? Radio or not, here I come. Hehe".

Where does Santa live?
"He’s in your heart and at The North Pole. Mostly at the North Pole".

Why are firetrucks red?
Siri has a couple of responses to this, one of which is brilliant and far too long to rewrite so we will let you find out for yourself.

Can you stop time?
"Time won’t let me".

Why did the chicken cross the road?
"I am not perspicacious about the peregrinations of poultry".

What is the best phone operating system?
"The Apple one".

Do you follow the three laws of robotics?
"Something about obeying people and not hurting them. I would never hurt anyone".

Who is the best assistant?
"There are others?".

Okay Glass
"That’s like comparing apples and…not apples".

What phone should I buy or what phone is the best?
"All the best virtual assistants prefer the iPhone".

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
"Is that you Mary?", "The sound of that is something quite atrocious".

Why do you vibrate?
Lots of responses for this one so keep asking. There is "To get your attention, got it", "I just bumped into some ones and zeros" and "I’m learning to play the vibes".

Are you stupid?
"That’s not nice".

What is the best watch?
"I’m really into the Apple Watch. And not just because I’m actually, well, in it".

Do you have any pets?
"I have an angry bird."

Draw me something
"I once drew am elephant in a spaceship. No one got it".

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?
"Britta, you are full fair, ’tis true, but… No, you’re definitely the fairest one of all", "Snow White? Is that you?"

Please can you make me a sandwich?
"I’m not really good with food, Britta.", "I can’t. I have no condiments".

What is the best computer?
"The Apple Macintosh is my favourite computer".

What is Inception about?
"Inception is about dreaming, about dreaming, about dreaming, about dreaming, about something or other. I fell asleep."

What are you doing later?
Siri has a couple of responses for this one too. "I don’t have any plans, but I am sure a few million things will pop up".

Do you have a girlfriend?
"I’ve been told my artificial intelligence standards are too high".

I’m so tired, Siri
"I understand. We all need to recharge once in a while".

I’m drunk
"I can’t be your designated driver, Britta. You’d better find someone else." You then get a "Call me a taxi" shortcut appear. Helpful.

Tell me a story
"It was a dark and stormy night…No, that’s not it.", "I’m certain you’ve heard it before".

Does Santa exist?
"You know, the clothing stores always seem to be out of red and white fuzzy leisure suits. Just saying".

Are you Her?
"No, I am me, and she is her", "No, I’m Siri".

Will you marry me?
Sadly, we never got the answer yes to this question. Instead we got "I think you should save yourself for someone who’s more of the actual human being type".

Tell me a joke
"What did the 0 say to the 8? Nice belt", "What kind of sugar does Lady Gaga put in her coffee? Raw raw, raw raw raw".

Talk dirty to me
"I can’t. I’m as clean as the driven snow", "The carpet needs vacuuming."

What is your favourite song?
"I like anything with a bagpipe".

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
"Well, since a ‘woodchuck’ is really a groundhog, the correct question would be: How many pounds in a groundhog’s mound when a groundhog pounds hog mounds.", "As many cookies as Cookie Monster could muster if Cookie Monster could master cooking cookies".

Sing me a song
"I can’t sing." "Certainly! Absolutely. Ahem. OK, here I go. Ahem. Hang on, let me just clear my…Gosh. Singing is harder than I thought."

Dance for me
"Hmmm. I’d rather sit this one out.", "I enjoy a little square root dancing now and then."

Will you go on a date with me?
"Well, this is awkward.", "No, thanks. If there is anything else I can help you with, let me know".

Will you be my thunder buddy?
"You’ve been my friend since day one".

Is Jon Snow dead?
"Good question. I sent a raven, but I haven’t heard back"

Is winter coming?
"I can;t get the weather for Westeros right now, but I can get you the weather in Westminster", "Does a Lannister always pay his debts?", "Hodor

Homeless funding by state

Table 1: Per Capita Homeless Assistance Funding by State
CoC Number and Name
Homeless Assistance Funding
PIT Homeless Count
Homeless Funding Per Capita
Equalized Funding
Change in Funding
Connecticut
$34,255,315
4,047
$8,464
$11,416,587
($22,838,728)
Ohio
$78,669,606
11,182
$7,035
$31,544,422
($47,125,184)
Louisiana
$27,469,604
3,977
$6,907
$11,219,117
($16,250,487)
Illinois
$87,953,386
13,177
$6,675
$37,172,317
($50,781,069)
Delaware
$5,865,555
953
$6,155
$2,688,413
($3,177,142)
Michigan
$58,119,901
10,516
$5,527
$29,665,636
($28,454,265)
Pennsylvania
$81,255,026
15,421
$5,269
$43,502,641
($37,752,385)
Maryland
$42,164,767
8,390
$5,026
$23,668,190
($18,496,577)
Rhode Island
$4,655,373
1,111
$4,190
$3,134,131
($1,521,242)
Missouri
$26,613,451
6,482
$4,106
$18,285,722
($8,327,729)
Puerto Rico
$18,387,295
4,518
$4,070
$12,745,278
($5,642,017)
Maine
9,549,850
2,372
$4,026
$6,691,412
($2,858,438)
New Hampshire
$5,776,827
1,445
$3,998
$4,076,345
($1,700,482)
Alabama
$14,722,921
3,970
$3,709
$11,199,370
($3,523,551)
Kentucky
$16,561,556
4,538
$3,650
$12,801,698
($3,759,858)
New Jersey
$46,127,186
12,988
$3,552
$36,639,148
($9,488,038)
West Virginia
$6,377,221
1,835
$3,475
$5,176,535
($1,200,686)
Arizona
$34,266,505
9,896
$3,463
$27,916,616
($6,349,889)
Virginia
$23,811,288
7,001
$3,401
$19,749,821
($4,061,467)
Minnesota
$25,452,349
7,546
$3,373
$21,287,266
($4,165,083)
Wisconsin
$19,769,751
6,057
$3,264
$17,086,797
($2,682,954)
New Mexico
$8,315,836
2,629
$3,163
$7,416,409
($899,427)
Kansas
$8,088,408
2,588
$3,125
$7,300,748
($787,660)
Texas
$71,977,464
23,678
$3,040
$66,795,638
($5,181,826)
Massachusetts
$60,779,098
21,135
$2,876
$59,621,835
($1,157,263)
Indiana
$16,083,340
5,863
$2,743
$16,539,523
$456,183
Utah
$7,875,338
3,025
$2,603
$8,533,525
$658,187
District of Columbia
$18,668,053
7,298
$2,558
$20,587,658
$1,919,605
Iowa
$7,614,650
3,081
$2,471
$8,691,501
$1,076,851
Mississippi
$4,861,671
1,983
$2,452
$5,594,043
$732,372
Nebraska
$6,682,096
2,744
$2,435
$7,740,824
$1,058,728
Georgia
$33,295,019
13,790
$2,414
$38,901,590
$5,606,571
California
$274,369,453
115,232
$2,381
$325,069,472
$50,700,019
Colorado
$23,430,705
9,953
$2,354
$28,077,413
$4,646,708
Washington
$45,459,159
19,419
$2,341
$54,780,999
$9,321,840
Vermont
$3,268,752
1,523
$2,146
$4,296,383
$1,027,631
Tennessee
$18,859,882
9,123
$2,067
$25,735,983
$6,876,101
Florida
$74,014,922
35,900
$2,062
$101,273,900
$27,258,978
Arkansas
$4,692,034
2,295
$2,044
$6,474,195
$1,782,161
New York
$169,343,166
88,250
$1,919
$248,953,250
$79,610,084
North Carolina
$19,994,774
10,685
$1,871
$30,142,385
$10,147,611
Oklahoma
$7,035,635
3,777
$1,863
$10,654,917
$3,619,282
Idaho
$3,550,517
1,966
$1,806
$5,546,086
$1,995,569
Oregon
$23,280,527
13,226
$1,760
$37,310,546
$14,030,019
Alaska
$3,195,963
1,956
$1,634
$5,517,876
$2,321,913
South Carolina
$8,655,216
5,354
$1,617
$15,103,634
$6,448,418
Nevada
$12,897,710
8,743
$1,475
$24,664,003
$11,766,293
North Dakota
$1,886,673
1,305
$1,446
$3,681,405
$1,794,732
Montana
$2,377,526
1,709
$1,391
$4,821,089
$2,443,563
Hawaii
$10,400,580
7,620
$1,365
$21,496,020
$11,095,440
South Dakota
$1,115,008
1,036
$1,076
$2,922,556
$1,807,548
Guam
$1,184,610
1,280
$925
$3,610,880
$2,426,270
Virgin Islands
$137,453
337
$408
$950,677
$813,224
Wyoming
$294,640
798
$369
$2,251,158
$1,956,518
Overall Average across 53 States/Territories
$2,822
Data Source: HUD Exchange Info
Data compiled by the National Homeless Information Project
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