remunerative jobs

Michael Sandelの "What Money Can't Buy" に出てきた覚えたい単語を取り上げています。今日の単語は次の個所にありました。
The corruption objection is about institutional integrity. This objection points out that higher education not only equips students for remunerative jobs; it also embodies certain ideals--the pursuit of truth, the promotion of scholary and scientific excellence, the advancement of humane teaching and learning, the cultivation of civic virtue.
一般的に高等教育により良い仕事に就ける可能性は高くなると言われているので、"remunerative jobs" の "remunerative" には良い意味があるに違いありませんが、どんな良い事でしょうか？ "remunerative" の意味を辞書で確認します。
・Oxford English Dictionary: Financially rewarding; lucrative: highly remunerative activities: The result of several years of research has not proved very remunerative.
・Vocabulary.com: When something is remunerative, it means people get paid for it. Your job is remunerative, and if your research into new farming methods leads to a big government contract, then that also could be called remunerative.
Remunerative can also mean that something generates a lot of money, like the remunerative ice cream truck that appears at the park entrance on the hottest days of summer. In Latin, munus and muner- mean "gift." Re- means "again," emphasizing that the reward keeps coming, whether it is a weekly paycheck or something that continues to generate sales, like the ice cream truck.
なるほど、だけどこの単語を知るには私には遅すぎた気がします。