If you are not good/not interested in programming, not that interested in
finance, then you pretty much don't want to go for MFE.
You could consider actuarial science, but be prepared to work very hard to
get what you want. Your top20 school in midwest means nothing in this field,
and you will need to find way to make up the gap in terms of actuarial
courses, exams, actuarial internships, etc. Another way is to go for a
master's degree in actuarial science in one of those big actuarial science
schools, like UConn, Columbia, Madison, Iowa, etc..
Your salary level is the result of all your hard work, plus a lot of luck.
After passing all actuarial exams and attaining Fellowship(and with several
years of experience), people frequently earn 120k+ and maybe a little bit
bonus. Senior actuaries can make 200k, but that has much to do with how you
develop yourself professionally down the road (not too much of your concern
right now), and most actuaries do make a lot less than that.
