CareerCast Rated A Number Of Careers Based On Multiple Criteria

Glamorous, prestigious, and respected are some of the adjectives that come to mind when someone mentions the words "airline pilot".

Now, CareerCast says you can add another, less enticing description: "stressful".

Piloting an airliner is the world's third most stressful jobs, according to job seekers website. 

CareerCast rated numerous careers based on multiple factors, including:

• Travel
• Career growth potential
• Physical demands
• Environmental conditions
• Hazards encountered
• Meeting the public
• Competition
• Risk of death or grievous injury
• Immediate risk of another’s life
• Deadlines
• Working in the public eye

The online magazine Travel and Leisure says that it makes sense that being an airline pilot is a stressful position, given that they can be responsible for hundreds of lives sitting in the back of the airplane to destinations around the world.

According to CareerCast, airline pilots have a median income of $102,520, but the Stress Score came in at 60.54, and the growth outlook for the industry is only 5 percent, according to the report.

That does seem to run counter to the "pilot shortage" that is often discussed by the industry.

As a side note, and of interest to at least the person sitting at this keyboard … newspaper reporter and broadcaster made the list of most endangered jobs.

The most stressful job as rated by CareerCast.com is enlisted military personnel. The median income is $27,936 and the stress score is 72.74. The growth outlook was "not applicable."

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FMI: http://www.careercast.com/jobs-rated/most-stressful-jobs-2017