
(They too reported high stress.) Financial analysts have the same rate of finding "meaning" in their work as lawyers do, but they make slightly less-$64,900. Lawyers, the top-earners of the bunch, make on average $89,800 and 40 percent said their jobs made the world better. Those employed in legal services (which includes lawyers in addition to paralegals, clerks, title examiners, etc.) were doing the best of the low-meaning jobs, making $49,000 a year. No professions at all fell in the chart's upper-left-hand reaches: highly remunerative and not very meaningful. Low-paying service jobs-food prep, cashiers, fast-food cooks-were both poorly compensated and not meaningful (the chart's lower-left area). Of course, many jobs earn little in both cash and fulfillment. Size of the circle represents job satisfaction. The report noted that jobs in these fields are more likely to be filled by women and that, in general, female-dominated professions were more likely to be high-meaning and low-earning, the lower right-hand corner of the chart below. Unsurprisingly, this group isn't getting rich in a pecuniary sense: Clergy had a median annual pay of $45,500 directors of religious programs made $35,900 marriage and family therapists came in at $47,100. Clergy, in particular, thought their work was making the world a better place: 97 percent answered in the affirmative. PayScale found that people employed in a group broadly labeled as "community and social service workers"-therapists, clergy, directors of religious programs-were most likely to report that they found their work meaningful, at 84 percent. They did, however, also report high levels of stress. Using data collected from about 374,000 PayScale site visitors, researchers at PayScale found that doctors tended to have the best combination of high compensation and a positive response to the question "Does your job make the world a better place?" Overall, the group with the best combination of meaning and money is surgeons, 94 percent of whom report finding their work meaningful and whose median compensation was just shy of $300,000. That's the finding of a new study from the online salary- and benefits-tracking company PayScale. Not for those who choose to go into medicine. and Shutterstock, Inc.Does a preference for "meaningful" work necessitate a lifetime of modest compensation? Shutterstock may also be known as or be related to Shutterstock, Shutterstock Inc, Shutterstock Inc. The data presented on this page does not represent the view of Shutterstock and its employees or that of Zippia. None of the information on this page has been provided or approved by Shutterstock.
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