Want to earn $100K-$200K a year in SC? Here are the highest paying open state jobs in March

Of the 1,639 jobs South Carolina state government is looking to fill, almost 100 have annual top salaries of $100,000 a year or more.

Among them are four that pay more than $200,000, according to the state Human Resources website.

You’ll have to be either a doctor or lawyer to qualify for those four jobs.

Two of them are a psychiatrist and a child psychiatrist at the Department of Mental Health-MHC Coastal Empire in Beaufort County. The salary range is $200,000 to $230,000 a year.

Applications for both will close on April 17 after being advertised since January 2023, the state government website says.

Of course, the successful applicant will need to be licensed or eligible to practice medicine in South Carolina and have completed the full four-year residency in psychiatry and a two-year fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry.

The jobs come with standard state government benefits: health, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance for employee, spouse, and children, 15 days vacation and 15 days sick leave, 13 paid holidays, paid parental leave and State Retirement Plan and Deferred Compensation Programs.

The state also needs to hire two Circuit Public Defenders, one for the 8th Judicial Circuit in Laurens County, the other in the 14th Circuit in Beaufort County. They each pay $212,786 annually.

Part of the Commission on Indigent Defense, the public defender carries a four-year term providing and overseeing the legal needs of people charged with crimes who cannot afford a lawyer.

A juris doctor degree is required as well as experience as a practicing attorney. The job post does not specify how many years. The applicant must be at least 25 years old and admitted for the bar for at least five years.

The University of South Carolina is looking for a senior associate for organizational excellence to work on various projects designed to save money or streamline processes for consumers. One just getting underway is designed to improve IT purchases. Another is improving the graduate application process.

The job pays $81,388 to $150,585.00 a year. Requirements are a bachelor’s degree in relevant fields, such as organizational development, higher education, business administration, operations and four years experience.

Analytical, critical thinking and listening skills are important, the job post says.

A job for a nurse practitioner, paying $81,388 to $150,585 annually, is open in Greenville County at the Greater Greenville Mental Health Center.

The job requires a master’s degree in nursing, licensure as a registered nurse with official recognition as a nurse practitioner by the SC Board of Nursing.

In all, the state is looking for more than 100 nurses in various agencies across the state, including a nurse practitioner in Aiken County, also for the Department of Mental Health. Pay range is the same: $81,388 to $150,585 a year. The requirements are the same but with the added requirement of five years of experience treating individuals with SPMI, which includes major depression, bipolar disorders, schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder.

Also paying $81,388 to $150,585 annually is the job of human resources director III with the Department of Public Health.

This job oversees State Human Resources regulations, chairs the Agency Policy Review Committee, “develops and implements new policies and provides policy interpretation to agency management.”

Requirements are a bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, or a related field; six years of work experience in human resources including three or more years of supervisory experience.

A Master’s degree and eight years experience are preferred.

The Department of Mental Health is also looking to fill two Psychologist II jobs for the Forensic Evaluation Service. The salary range is $81,388 to $150,585 annually.

This job entails working with adult defendants who are committed to G. Werber Bryan Psychiatric Hospital in Columbia from the Court of General Sessions. Most often it is due to a judge finding the defendant lacks capacity to stand trial due to mental illness or who have been found not guilty by reason of insanity.

A doctorate in applied psychology is required.