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- Not every job that pays well requires workaholic hours.
- Using Census data compiled by the Minnesota Population Center, we found 15 jobs that pay above-average earnings where the average worker spends less than 40 hours per week at work.
- Pharmacists, college professors, and actors all made the list.
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Not every job that pays well requires workaholic hours. We found 15 high-paying occupations where the average worker spends less than 40 hours per week at work.
Using Census data from the Minnesota Population Center's 2017 American Community Survey Integrated Public Use Microdata Series, we found the average number of hours usually worked in a week and average annual earnings for people employed in each of the 478 occupations tracked in the data.
Here are the 15 occupations with the least average hours worked, among occupations with average annual earnings above the overall average of $51,736: