Stress Less, Make More

If you’ve been tempted to play hooky because your current gig is stressing you out, get this: There is such a thing as a high- paying, low- stress job. We combed through the website Payscale, which gave us the average annual salaries of professions in Canada, and the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Information Network, which ranks the stress level of careers, and found 10 plum gigs that pay an average of $ 60,000 per year and have relatively low levels of on- the- job anxiety. One caveat: You’re going to need quite a bit of schooling for some of these occupations ( hello, orthodontist), but others require only a bachelor’s degree and a healthy dose of motivation. Who knows? More relaxing Mondays to Fridays (and more dollar signs) may lie ahead.