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2017’s best and worst jobs

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If you’re part of the workforce long enough, you’re bound to have a day that makes you believe you have the absolute worst job in the world. Similarly, there will be times when you feel your job simply couldn’t be better.

To make things slightly more scientific than your personal opinion, every year job site CareerCast ranks 200 jobs to find out which ones actually are the best and the worst of the lot. The different jobs are rated across a variety of sectors, based on growth outlook, income, environmental conditions, and stress.

Similar to last year, the worst jobs of 2017 are some of the most indispensable to our society. As the CareerCast report points out: “Great careers for those with the personality types able to face stress (and sometimes danger) head-on.”

While the data used for the ranking comes from the US Bureau of Labour Statistics, especially the environment and stress factors that give a job its good or bad rating are likely to be somewhat universal.

So without further ado, here are this year’s top 10 best and worst jobs.

Best jobs of 2017:

1. Statistician Overall Rating: 93 Median Salary: US$80,110 Projected Growth: 34.00%

2. Medical services manager Overall Rating: 101 Median Salary: US$94,500 Projected Growth: 17.00%

3. Operations research analyst Overall Rating: 102 Median Salary: US$79,200 Projected Growth: 30.00%

4. Information security analyst Overall Rating: 104 Median Salary: US$90,120 Projected Growth: 18.00%

5. Data scientist Overall Rating: 105 Median Salary: US$111,267 Projected Growth: 15.75%

6. University professor Overall Rating: 110 Median Salary: US$72,416 Projected Growth: 15.24%

7. Mathematician Overall Rating: 128 Median Salary: US$111,298 Projected Growth: 22.31%

8. Software engineer Overall Rating: 129 Median Salary: US$100,690 Projected Growth: 17.00%

9. Occupational therapist Overall Rating: 130 Median Salary: US$81,910 Projected Growth: 29.04%

10. Speech pathologist Overall Rating: 131 Median Salary: US$73,250 Projected Growth: 22.65%

Worst jobs of 2017:

1. Newspaper reporter Overall Rating: 739 Median Salary: US$37,820 Projected Growth: -8.00%

2. Broadcaster Overall Rating: 731 Median Salary: US$38,870 Projected Growth: -9.00%

3. Logger Overall Rating: 726 Median Salary: US$37,590 Projected Growth: -4.00%

4. Enlisted military personnel Overall Rating: 674 Median Salary: US$27,936 Projected Growth: 0.00%

5. Pest control worker Overall Rating: 666 Median Salary: US$33,040 Projected Growth: -1.00%

6. Disc jockey Overall Rating: 656 Median Salary: US$30,830 Projected Growth: -11.00%

7. Advertising sales person Overall Rating: 643 Median Salary: US$50,380 Projected Growth: -3.00%

8. Firefighter Overall Rating: 642 Median Salary: US$48,030 Projected Growth: 5.00%

9. Retail salesperson Overall Rating: 634 Median Salary: US$22,900 Projected Growth: 7.00%

10. Taxi driver Overall Rating: 625 Median Salary: US$24,300 Projected Growth: 13.00%

ALSO READ: 2017’s most and least stressful jobs

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