The least stressful jobs of 2017

The 11 criteria that define a stressful job are: travel; career growth potential; physical demand; environmental conditions; hazards encountered; meeting the public; competition; risk of death or grievous injury; immediate risk of another’s life; deadlines; and working in the public eye.

A job with little-to-no travel, no immediate urgency, or risk of death or severe harm, promising growth opportunities, or relative anonymity from the public eye, the jobs site explains, scores as less stressful.

The least stressful jobs of 2017, and their corresponding stress score, can be seen below.

1. Diagnostic medical sonographer – 4
2. Compliance officer – 5.73
3. Hair stylist – 5.8
4. Audiologist – 7.31
5. University professor – 8.17
6. Medical records technician – 8.57
7. Jeweller – 8.95
8. Operations research analyst – 9.02
9. Pharmacy technician – 9.1
10. Medical laboratory technician – 10.31 

The ten most stressful jobs of 2017, also compiled by CareerCast, can be found here.