Have you ever felt like you were underpaid at your job? Well, seriously. Imagine - you work hard all day, spend all your energy, and most likely get much less than that guy over there. It's like that, don't you agree? And the most interesting thing is that the "guy" who works less but gets more, according to others, may be you.
In fact, everything in this life is relative, and this or that profession, depending on various angles, can seem both completely low-paid and with an unreasonably high salary. It depends on the country, on the level of education, and a number of other factors. But there is still a whole pool of professions whose representatives, by all accounts, are still criminally underpaid in almost every country.
The AskReddit community once asked members just one simple question: "Which profession is criminally underpaid?" The resulting thread got 31.1K upvotes, as well as 19.6K various comments, which, of course, indicates how painfully sensitive this topic is for many people.
In the original thread, as we have already noted, there is a huge number of comments, so Bored Panda compiled a selection of the most popular and often-mentioned ones. Apparently, these professions are indeed dramatically underpaid all over the world. In any case, feel free to scroll to the very end and, perhaps, if you don’t find an option you'd like to add, you may for sure leave it in the comments section.
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#22 Resident Physicians
Resident physicians. Some make less than minimum wage for 80 hour work weeks despite saving countless lives.
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42points
#23 Scientists
Scientists, imagine studying 10 plus years, holding the highest academic title possible and earning less than most common 9 to 5s that require little to no education. But hey, its honorable right.
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41points
#24 Lab Techs
Lab techs, we do so much work for doctors to get to the results and never get any recognition for it. Drawing blood, performing quality controls, run stats and bring blood when there is a big trauma.
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40points
#25 Cops Or Prison Work
Cps or prison work. I worked at a group home with jdc kids at a direct care facility. We made $10/h. I make more at walmart now and I get hit with way less chairs now.
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34points
#26 Folks In This Online Group Pointed Out 27 Professions That Are Criminally Underpaid Considering How Demanding They Are
Administrative assistants. They literally do everything and anything to keep a place running. They know everything from the top down but get paid a fraction of what everyone else does as the profession is still seen as lower education and a less important role in the company. We have to know our bosses' jobs as well as our own and need to cross-train across the company. OH! We know all the secrets as we all talk to each other.
34points
#27 Person Asks: "Which Profession Is Criminally Underpaid?" And 27 People Online Deliver
I think any job that pays below or at the poverty line for that region is criminal underpaid. When corporations have employees relying on government assistance and other poverty aide organizations that is an indirect form of corporate welfare. The excuse supposed "low skill" entry level job or just any job that's paid like a entry level job) are "just for students living at home" is so narrow-minded and dim-sighted, and manipulative to deflect societies attention to the actual problem for people argue about.
Every job that is paying below the liveability line is underpaid.
Every job that is paying below the liveability line is underpaid.
31points
#28 Pilots
Pilots. Yes, older pilots do well but new pilots have to take on so much debt, only to make maybe $600/week. What many people don’t realize is they get paid for flight time, not actual time. And they are limited to something like 100-120hrs a month of flying, if they are given it. That, and regional pilots are often away from home for days on end due to their routes. There is a lot of “paying your dues” for decades in that profession
27points
#29 Folks In This Online Group Pointed Out 27 Professions That Are Criminally Underpaid Considering How Demanding They Are
School Counsellors.
All day they listen to people's problems without judgement, and where I live they only get paid minimum wage.
22points
#30 Architects
Architects (and I don’t mean the Hollywood big name single owners of the big firms architects, I mean the 98% of the other architects who work under them or in smaller firms)
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20points
