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13 high-paying jobs for people who don't want to stare at a computer all day

Jacquelyn Smith   

13 high-paying jobs for people who don't want to stare at a computer all day

If the idea of sitting at a desk and staring at a computer all day is something you find to be completely intolerable - or you're just not all that tech-savvy - we've got some good news: There are plenty of jobs out there that don't require your eyes to be glued to a screen 40 hours a week.

And the better news is that some of these pay really well.

Business Insider recently combed through the Occupational Information Network (O*NET), a US Department of Labor database that compiles detailed information on hundreds of jobs to find positions where "using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information" is just a small part of the job.

O*NET ranks how important "interacting with computers" is to every profession, assigning each an importance score between 1 and 100.

We looked at the median annual pay for each job with a computer use importance score below 50 to find which ones typically pay more than $58,000 a year.

Here's what we found:

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