Hemophobe. Salary: $30,000 or less 

You faint while conducting routine blood work and have decided to look for a new career. Better get on it—those student loans aren't going to pay back themselves.

Toxicology Tyro. Salary: $65,000 

Bachelor's degree in chemistry? Check. Master's in toxicology? Check. Potential job openings? Check…check…checkcheckcheck. You may be new, but with multiple laboratories in need of your skill set, offers are already pouring in. And people say job hunting is hard.

Toxicologist. Salary: $80,000 

After years of binge-watching all the CSIs on Netflix, you couldn't imagine taking your toxicology skills anywhere other than forensics. Sure, your work takes more than half an hour—and you're definitely not magically available the moment a plucky detective rolls into your office at noon with a new priority—but it's close enough to make you feel as though you've accomplished your dream.

Toxicological Supervisor. Salary: $92,000 

Who knew those extra three letters after your name—P, h, and D—could open so many doors? After all that training, you're now supervising a clinical team at your local hospital and things couldn't be better. Now if only you could convince your paranoid neighbors to stop calling you in the middle of the night every time they think they've "smelled something."

Toxicology Titan. Salary $103,000 

After transitioning to pharmaceutical drug development, you've become a key player in the fight against cancer. After you resolved a recent toxic outbreak in Shanghai, you've been dubbed the Bill Gates of toxicology. Not bad.