5 High Income Skills for Students to Learn in 2026

Summary by Krater

Ali Abdaal breaks down five high-income skills that can increase your personal stock price and earning potential, drawing on examples of people making money from software consulting, copywriting, design, web development, and coding.

From the video

Answers: What are high-income skills you can learn as a student to make money?

• High-income skills for students
• Personal stock price concept
• Software consulting for businesses
• Copywriting and ghostwriting
• Design for business assets
• Web development and building websites
• Coding and app development
• Selling to businesses versus consumers

What it concludes

• Everyone in the modern capitalist marketplace is an entrepreneur with a personal stock price determined by their skills.
• Selling services to businesses yields significantly higher returns than selling to consumers because businesses have more money to spend and value services differently.
• Software consulting for applications like Notion can be a high-income skill for students who understand software better than traditional business owners.
• Copywriting is a high-income skill because improving a sales page's conversion rate by a few percentage points can dramatically scale a business's revenue.
• Design assets such as branding, website UI/UX, and marketing materials command high rates because businesses place a high value on them.
• Coding is a high-income skill that allows individuals to build their own products and tech businesses, with self-taught coders earning six figures right out of university.