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I stumbled across this article<\/a> listing careers that earn more pay working fewer hours. Basically, it’s a listing of 33 jobs, most of which you haven’t heard of before, that have some combination of pay that is above average ($37,037), and\/or work in hours per week or hours per year that is below average (40 and 2080 respectively).<\/p>\n

While it might put my weekly hours over my personal limit (which is very close to zero), I thought it would be fun to analyze the data in a little more detail to determine which ones really are the best. Among their list, several ‘bests’ could be found. Here are the top few in several categories:<\/p>\n

Total pay per year:
\n1: Psychiatrist – $135,671
\n2: Aircraft pilots, copilots and flight engineers – $127,501
\n3: Law teacher, post-secondary – $101,678
\n4: Optometrist – $100,419<\/p>\n

Pay per hour (annual shown, weekly top-3 ranking is the same):
\n1: Aircraft pilots, copilots and flight engineers – $109.82
\n2: Psychiatrist – $71.94
\n3: Law teacher, post-secondary – $66.24<\/p>\n

Hours per year:
\n1: Aircraft pilots, copilots and flight engineers – 1161
\n2-4: Post-secondary teachers: Business – 1488, Physics – 1489, Law – 1535
\n5: Speech-language pathologist<\/p>\n

Hours per week:
\n1: Aircraft pilots, copilots and flight engineers – 22.3
\n2: Interpreters and translators – 32.4
\n3: Dental hygienist – 34.6<\/p>\n

Work weeks per year:
\n1-3: Post-secondary teachers: Business – 38.15, Physics – 38.88, Law – 40.39
\n4: Speech-language pathologist – 43.3
\n5: Clinical, counseling and school psychologists – 44.09<\/p>\n

So, the best careers depend on the specific kind of lazy you’d like to be. The two that stick out, though, air pilots (and flight engineers), and post-secondary teachers. Pilots work more weeks per year (~52 v.s. <40). If you want several months per year off, Law professor sounds like a real great deal. Good money (over $100k \/ year) and plenty of time off in big blocks. For a little better pay overall with more weeks per year of work, but fewer overall hours and far fewer weekly hours, pilot is the clear winner of lazy person's career. <\/p>\n

Of course, that data is all based on averages. What's the reality? I went on a trip that started January 3rd and ended January 17th. I'm leaving again tomorrow for training and will be gone through February 11th. So I will have had 6 days at home in January. Starting Wednesday, not only will I work 8 hours a day 5 days a week in training, but I'll have to study for countless hours evenings and weekends. That pace will continue all the way through February as I do my sim training. 22.3 hours a week? I don't think so…<\/p>\n

V-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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