12 jobs that pay less than you'd expect

Sometimes, despite the importance of the role or the average salary within an industry, the pay for certain jobs just doesn't meet expectations.

Take childcare workers for example. As advocates for The Fight for $15 point out, research by the University of California, Berkeley's Center for the Study of Child Care Employment shows that childcare workers have experienced no increase in real wages since 1997, even though the cost to parents for early childhood care has nearly doubled since then.

Glassdoor recently put together a list of 11 jobs based on at least 30 salary reports shared by employees on Glassdoor where the salary is completely different from what you might expect.

Based on Glassdoor's list, as well as independent research using the Bureau of Labor Statistic's occupational data, here are 12 jobs that pay less than you'd expect (all salary data came from the BLS):