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Athletic coach
- Median pay: $43,500
- % who say their job is stressful: 89.2%
Each game day, "you do get butterflies as if you're playing the game," said George Smith, head football coach at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Since Smith has had plenty of on-the-field successes -- he has recorded 361 wins and 66 losses in his 34-year career -- he has faced little pressure to improve his teams' records. But not all coaches are so lucky.
In many towns across the nation, sports are an obsession and the pressure to win is high.
And then there are the pressures off the field. "Our job is to take the young guys and do the best we can to make sure they're responsible for their own future," said Smith.
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Methodology: Starting from a database of more than 9,000 jobs, PayScale used data from over 120,000 respondents who rated their jobs for quality of life factors. The top 15 were selected based on the national median pay for workers with at least five or seven years' experience and the percent of workers surveyed who said their jobs were "fairly stressful" or "extremely stressful." They were then ranked in order of pay, lowest to highest. Only jobs with median pay less than $50,000 were eligible., and only one job per "job family" was included. PayScale conducted the survey between August 2010 and August 2012.
Methodology: Starting from a database of more than 9,000 jobs, PayScale used data from over 120,000 respondents who rated their jobs for quality of life factors. The top 15 were selected based on the national median pay for workers with at least five or seven years' experience and the percent of workers surveyed who said their jobs were "fairly stressful" or "extremely stressful." They were then ranked in order of pay, lowest to highest. Only jobs with median pay less than $50,000 were eligible., and only one job per "job family" was included. PayScale conducted the survey between August 2010 and August 2012.
- Last updated March 07 2013 08:59 AM ET
