16 high-paying jobs for people who hate people
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If this sounds like you, your best approach for finding a job could be searching for work where people skills aren't all that necessary.
To find these jobs, we averaged data from the Occupational Information Network, or O*NET, a US Department of Labor database full of detailed information on 974 occupations.
O*NET rates each occupation on a scale from zero to 100 on how much a job requires workers to be in contact with others and how much a job requires workers to be pleasant with others, where a lower rating signals less required sociability. O*NET also provides the median annual wage for each position based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics 2015 wage data.
We're not suggesting people who hold these positions are all standoffish. Rather, the following jobs pay on average more than $55,000 a year, have an average required sociability score of 65 or less, and therefore require minimal good-natured interaction with others:
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