MAKING BIG MONEY: The ultimate guides to breaking into careers with 6-figure salaries

• You want to increase your salary in your current position but you don't know how to get that promotion, or you're thinking about a career change and hoping to bolster your earnings.
• These guides will point you in the right direction to start making more dollar signs by shifting toward freelancing or learning new skills.
• Business Insider regularly interviews career experts about making more money in your current job or at a new one. You can read them all by subscribing to BI Prime.

Looking for a career move that can boost cash flow? These professions and positions help add the good kind of zeros to your salary. Read these articles to help you combine a career you love with a paycheck you want — and for advice on how to get there.

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Engineer: The best way to teach yourself to code and land a six-figure job, from 5 people who've done it

Freelancer: The ultimate guide to going freelance — and making more than you did at a full-time gig

Ghostwriter: How to become a freelance ghostwriter, according to someone who left her $50,000-a-year banking job and now makes $80,000 a year on her own time

Graphic designer: The best way to build a client base and make 6 figures as a freelance graphic designer, according to 6 people who are currently doing it

Web designer: How to find clients and market your business as an independent web designer, according to 6-figure freelancers who did it

Presentation designer: The exact email one freelance presentation designer uses to increase her rates — and how she plans to make $400,000 this year

Marketing consultant: The ultimate guide to breaking into marketing consulting and making 6 figures, from people who did it

Independent consultant: How 5 executives who left their jobs to become independent consultants now make 6 figures on their own time — and how you could do the same

Real estate agent: How to make 6 figures as an independent real estate agent, according to someone who did it

Dietitian: How to earn a 6-figure salary as a dietitian or nutritionist, according to 4 renowned entrepreneurs in the industry

Personal trainer: How to earn a 6-figure salary as a personal trainer, according to 3 people who are doing it

Poshmark seller: The ultimate guide to earning 6 figures on Poshmark, according to star sellers who've done it and gained boatloads of customers

VC: How to break into venture capital and land a job at a top firm, according to recruiters, managing partners, and executive coaches in the VC space

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