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- Metalcard, on 10/29/2009, -2/+72Social worker: $43,200
Special events coordinator: $35,900
Probation/parole officer: $38,400
News reporter: $32,900
Music ministry director: $40,800
Membership manager: $42,600
Fundraiser: $42,700
Commercial photographer: $43,600
Assisted living director: $46,000
Minister: $45,300
Marriage/family therapist: $44,400
Curator: $46,500
Substance abuse counselor: $32,400
Film/TV producer: $47,600
High school teacher: $43,000
15 pages and the print button only shows the current page, ***** that. - sexyloser, on 10/29/2009, -5/+45It's not all on one page. So, ***** it.
- devildog1633310, on 10/29/2009, -3/+37As a combat US Marine Veteran I must say shame on you for not including the most stressful job on earth with the ***** pay and even worse working conditions. I've worked as a deputy sheriff dealing with the worst society has to offer that was no picnic either. I'm shocked that a combat serviceman isn't #1 and appalled that it wasn't even considered as a top #15. You should be ashamed to be a journalist. Oh by the way the average pay of a 1st year journalist is $22-31K. Average pay of a private E-1 in any of our armed forces. $18K.
- GeekvsDork, on 10/29/2009, -0/+26No debt collection agent? No puppy killing technician? Something tells me they didn't really go in depth with this study...
- brad3378, on 10/29/2009, -1/+25I was also expecting to see a few more like
Paramedic / EMT (Median salary $35,000)
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=EMT/Sal ...
With such a low pay & high burnout & suicide rates I would have expected this to be at the top of the list. - Codik, on 10/29/2009, -3/+18I hear you, but I think you forgot that the military gets more than just a salary: housing allowance, food allowance, free healthcare, etc. Plus most journalists have to work in big, expensive cities. So you can't really compare, or if you do, you might be surprised: http://www.goarmy.com/benefits/total_compensation. ...
- 33PercentGod, on 10/29/2009, -0/+15The first thing I thought was EMT and it's not even on there. They have to see grotesque ***** daily plus the they get paid dog ***** jones.
Also,what about a male pornstar? They get paid ***** for scenes and the amount of stress to do what they need in front of everyone must be stomach wrecking. - facelessrage, on 10/29/2009, -4/+16As a Marine stationed overseas, the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline was "they better have the United States Marine Corps."
Sad it was not included. - PotbellyJoe, on 10/29/2009, -0/+12So they found bad paying jobs and asked people if their job was stressful. What a crap study.
If you asked the average American if they have a stressful job they would say yes. It doesn't surprise me that these jobs are highlighted, I know people in a lot of these roles and they bitch a lot about anything. The parole officer is the only one I agree with.
If it was stress experienced/pay, the military would own the first spot. Followed by police officers. Followed by any job where you have to worry about being shot at while not making a ton of money, so postal worker. - johnn11238, on 10/29/2009, -1/+13No restaurant jobs at all?
No military jobs at all?
TWO pastoral jobs?
*****. - swoopdog, on 10/29/2009, -4/+16it didn't say hobbies
it said jobs. ***** poetry is not a job *****. - RockCosmos, on 10/29/2009, -4/+13The great "benefits" for the military? They are better than they were two years ago but they were STRIPPED under the Republican regime over 2 decades.
Even McCain didn't want a GI Bill stating it would just give servicemen and women an excuse for not re-upping....In fact the great war hero has one of the worst voting records for funding anything for the troops from GI Bill to increasing the budget for medical personnel and supplies; from protective gear to updated equipment; from VA facilities treating the injured in battle to pay raises giving noncoms and privates a salary on which they can LIVE.
Those great paying jobs that keep families on food stamps and their military family member in a revolving door of combat operations until they are burnt out, injured or dead...Women in the service at a 1 in 3 chance of rape and men fragged, threatened or punished if they have a moral compass that does not allow for protecting the bad and the ugly....
Give us a break...The men and women in uniform have some of the worst jobs, highest death rates (try being an IED scout) and least amount of support - REAL consistent support...a lot of talk about "support the troops" only after demands for them to be ordered in to "kill the bastards" , whoever the bastards are this week .
We need to understand once and for all that sending troops into a war zone is not a game. IT is life and death ordered at the whim of the pentagon and old men who have never experienced battle or have forgotten what horror is as they brainwashed themselves with visions of their glory days as they sent OTHERS to die on their behalf.
Those in the military are REAL men and women with hearts and minds and blood and guts that think and feel and have families that love them and are in pain and fear at the prospect their father or mother or brother or sister or son or daughter will never ever be seen again..
Children crying for their fathers and mothers (did you know the suicide rate for children of combat troops in battle is sky-rocketing?)...
Our military personnel - the REAL personnel and not the officers sitting behind the lines with layers and layers and layers of protection from so much as a hangnail - those REAL people are underpaid, overstressed - many (not all by any means but many) are the best social workers, therapists, priests, nuns, caretakers, nurses, doctors, friends and family and superheroes to the indigent, shell shocked and destroyed caught in the middle of old men's dick waiving contests on both sides of any conflict. Unfortunately we don't respect them enough to pay them what they are worth, treat them with the concern and respect they actually deserve and understand the damage wrought by our insistence that they go bleed on our behalf. - revslaughter, on 10/29/2009, -0/+9I've got one more: Collection's Agent.
I know, "they're evil", but it's a terrible ***** job. I only lasted about 6 months, had to get a baby's birth covered by insurance, but total pay (before taxes/insurance) was about $20k/yr.
The company wants you to collect a certain amount of money per hour or else (hard times, after all), but nobody can pay you because the company you work for has pretty much ***** over their life, and it's pretty much your typical, terrible office environment. You basically get paid to have people scream at you for 9 hours a day about things you can't do anything about because the morally dubious company that employed you pretty much engineered your position such that you really have no choice but to get a payment or set up a payment arrangement.
I became a socially reclusive jerk with ulcers, and it took me about 3 weeks to start feeling like myself again after I quit. - Jonjonr6, on 10/29/2009, -0/+8At one point, telephone customer service/tech support had overtaken air traffic controller as the world's most stressful job. They often aren't paid much, and are chained to a phone taken inbound calls, and listen to people bitch and complain and basically vent all over them.
I know, I've been doing tech support for 9 years. - AngryDeuce, on 10/29/2009, -0/+8Retail (large chain) should be on that list. Doesn't matter what, if you work in retail, chances are you get paid ***** and get ***** on constantly.
- KenSPT, on 10/29/2009, -2/+8I refuse to click through 15 pages ...
- alwo, on 10/29/2009, -2/+8Quite a few of them do not require college degrees so at least they do not have to worry about loan repayments...
- spworm, on 10/29/2009, -3/+9Drug dealer is very stressful job, pays next to nothing(if you live at your mom's it's not hard to buy a gold chain once in a while) and is likely to get you killed.
- phosphite, on 10/29/2009, -0/+6Ya it's just too stressful.
- gkiltz, on 10/29/2009, -0/+6Retail Pharmacist belongs on that list.
Those guys, and gals will, at a busy store, do over 200 prescriptions a day EACH.
You lay up at night wondering how many you might have gotten wrong. - barcra, on 10/29/2009, -0/+6Only high school teachers need to deal with those things? You've got to be kidding! Elementary school teachers need to write lesson plans and prepare for all subjects day in and day out, often with less than 30 minutes a day of time dedicated for preparation. Within that time they also have to do that "cooperative planning" that needs to occur with every specialist, paraprofessional and team member that comes around. They run into parents doing the kid's homework too (only it is more obvious) but are often the first people to have to tell parents little junior isn't the genius they thought he was. Plus, there is a much greater burden on them to put up fancy bulletin boards, hall displays, and school plays/concerts. They're also being counselors, nurses, and mediators to all those kids. Dang, is it any wonder I don't teach any more?
- inactive, on 10/29/2009, -2/+8All jobs are stressful and pay badly.
- daunity, on 10/29/2009, -4/+9...no military? How disappointing.
- furatail, on 10/29/2009, -0/+5"some areas of the US"
- joeTaco, on 10/29/2009, -0/+5yes. food service industry, you ***** *****.
See how I snapped there? It's cuz I'm a waiter.
Our brothers in the kitchen have it pretty rough too. - regularsteven, on 10/29/2009, -0/+5if 33K is the median for news reporter, whats the low end? Cause i reckon the high end (for a few) would be sky high
- LokitheComplex, on 10/29/2009, -0/+5I'd go for most stressful jobs pay badly.
- AussieJames, on 10/29/2009, -3/+7Waiters don't have stressful jobs?
- philomatic, on 10/29/2009, -0/+4Music ministry directors make more than news reporters?!?
- PowderedToasty, on 10/29/2009, -0/+4fighter, parent, and beggar aren't really jobs.
- Jhonka, on 10/29/2009, -0/+4The overall median income for all 155 million persons over the age of 15 who worked with earnings in 2005 was $28,567.
Being that many of these don't require a degree, they're not that *****. Also, I think its safe to assume most people don't become photographers or ministers in search of huge salaries. - inactive, on 10/29/2009, -0/+4jobs that pay bad 50,000 dollars is not bad pay, it's very good pay
- shauncorleone, on 10/29/2009, -1/+5Being a studio exec or a high profile athlete isn't stressful?
- AmazingSteve, on 10/29/2009, -0/+4Fifteen pages? I don't think so...
- cornfeed, on 10/29/2009, -0/+4I agree. As an EMT I don't get paid squat for what I do and the scheduling sucks. But we tend to really like a good trauma. It's like I hope you don't ever get hurt, but I want to be there if you do.
- erictheninja, on 10/29/2009, -1/+5Yes. Most execs I know a very lazy and didn't work hard to get where they are. Same with professional athletes.
/sarcasm - codyman, on 10/29/2009, -0/+4I call ***** on the producer position
Of all the people who make the most, it's the producer whom takes a percentage of the film gross usually plus up front fees... hell, even my lower level associate producer friends are making a hell of a lot more money than me, the lowly sound designer whom basically sees nothing anymore because the producer assumes that "pro tools just takes the sound files and does the work for you, why do you even need people even more to DESIGN the actually sound of the film" as though Pro Tools is creative by itself and just designs a film - shauncorleone, on 10/29/2009, -1/+5Fail for probation officer. Maybe it's a little different depending on locale, but my probation officer sat on her fat ass and met with her clients, going over a "did you do anything illegal" checklist once monthly that everyone lies about anyway. So you have to violate people who screw up? Oh well, I'm sure after a couple dozen times you get used to people pissing their lives away.
- inactive, on 10/29/2009, -0/+3Yep, and it's used specifically to minimize outliers that are making bank.
- Rioracer916, on 10/30/2009, -0/+3In my experience it seems to be all levels except for the uptight executives on the east coast (Tommy Hilfiger).
Why didn't we sell $10,000 worth of merchandise today? Because people didn't want to buy it...what...oh...not a good enough excuse? *face palm*
Glad I got out of retail and got my degree in accounting. Now I'm unemployed and "over-qualified" for retail, or so they tell me...wait a minute... - Charlotte_Web, on 10/29/2009, -1/+4The median is simply the middle number, IIRC. In this list of numbers:
1, 2, 5, 10, 900
the median is 5. - FuckRepublicans, on 10/29/2009, -1/+4Man, if you could literally ***** poetry, I'd think that a lotta people would pay to see that!
- barrimon, on 10/29/2009, -1/+4They're important, but it's not a job.
- AnthonyFTMFW, on 10/29/2009, -0/+3Anne Giapapas is a hottie...
- MrSteamTank, on 10/29/2009, -0/+3How about an actual stressful low paying job.
The Afghanistan Police. 8) - rmxz, on 10/29/2009, -0/+3"As a combat US Marine Veteran I must say shame on you for not including the most stressful job on earth"
I bet the most stressful and lowest paying job on earth is actually the guys fighting *against* the US armed forces. - newsmonster, on 10/29/2009, -2/+5I have always thought that the pay system is screwed up. People who work the hardest and have the most stress are often paid so badly, then at the other end you have TV execs and sports stars earning piles of cash.
- furatail, on 10/29/2009, -0/+3You can't make $40k a year and complain you get bad pay. Someone in good health can survive quite well in some areas of the US with just $20k. Besides, if you're job is stressful consider finding a new one. Money is not worth loosing your sanity and your health over.
- LeroyJenkems, on 10/29/2009, -0/+3You, sir/ma'am, are a mentlegen and a scholar. Thank you.
- toonworld, on 10/29/2009, -1/+3@devildog1633310
I don't want to take away anything from your point. I do agree with you for sure, but I wanted to add one that should be blatantly obvious: Airline pilotes. Depending on the country and airline, some make as low as 18k to 30k a year. -
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