Heh, the corporate world still has its perks, that's sure, but being your own boss? Priceless. REALLY priceless, non just in the trivial Mastercard ad sense.
I would expect a data warehouse manager should make the list, usually they are bosses of data architects. Not many IT jobs needs more political and technological skill that a DW manager.
I admit I don't really come from a corporate IT background, but don't a lot of those pretty much sound like almost the same job: "Guy in charge of some big ugly database system"?
Why do people write articles like this? $100_000/yr in Kansas is much different from $100_000/yr in New York. But the data doesn't say anything about location, so it's probably irrelevant.
The article even mentions this disparity, but it doesn't do anything to correct it.
As far as I can tell, these jobs are all in expensive cities.
CTOs make more money than normal employees? No way!