7. Taxi drivers
Salary: start at $16,000 and top out at $34,000
6. Garbage collectors
Salary: start at $18,000and top out at $51,000
5. Welders
Salary: start at $23,000 and top out at $51,000
4. Dairy farmers
Salary: start at $21,000 and top out at $45,000
3. Iron-workers
Salary: start at $22,000 and top out at $49,000
2. Lumberjacks, or loggers as they prefer to be called
Salary: start at $22,000 and top out at $47,000
1. Roustabouts, which can either be temporary circus workers or oil riggers
Salary: start at $21,000 and top out at $49,000
I have been welding for ten years. Top rate around here is about 30. I think the list is about environment and stress. Being a welder su*** when you travel from family. Breathing in toxic fumes and burning your skin isn’t ideal. Sign me up for an office job! You guys are too fixated on the incomes. That’s the worst paid jobs in canada you silly bloggers
xFMMlr Very true! Makes a change to see soemone spell it out like that.
who ever wrote this list of bad jobs is a hardcore retard!,
and i am a fire fighter and when i started i made 55,000 not $22,000,like i said this site was made by a buch of monkeys
This was written by a European dumb-a** but seemingly with US prices in mind, I think he miscalculated a number of things
correction seaman in the navy but merchant seaman completely different story can make up to 52,000 in 5 months or less depending on rank
Here in Alberta Canada most of these jobs are 100K+/year…
None of this seems correct, even during a recession and even for the U.S.
Plus you forgot:
Telemarketers, retail sales associates, fast food attendants and all the minimum wage service industry. I would much prefer a law enforcement job over any of the other thankless service jobs that pay $7 an hour.
The figures quoted on some of the jobs are incorrect. It would be good to know how the figures were calculated, in particular given that I know of policemen who earn well over $100K (U.S.).
i rather have any of the jobs listed then mine ( network engineer for a telecom)
What elitist left-wing wacko wrote this? These are all respectable and productive jobs. While I get some of these may be endangered due to automation, if you have one of these jobs you are better off than about 50 million jobless Americans.
Many of these jobs are manufacturing related, public service or service sector. What is wrong with that? There are millions or people that would love to be making $22K let alone $87K.
Whatever criteria was used to select and rank these jobs is total BS. Do some research!
“Mail carriers?” We call them “postmen” in our neck of the woods.
This is total BS. What do you consider a “good job”? Something where you can sit inside a windowless office with A/C and make 80k/yr pushing paper and crunching numbers? No thanks. I’d rather be a construction worker than an accountant. You can keep your job sitting in front of a computer, I’ll keep my firefighting job (w/benefits, retirement, great schedule).
How are those bad jobs? They all make more than I do, and most get benefits. Why isn’t retail up there? I make $11,000 and have no benefits. I can barely afford to live, and I though I make $9.41 per hour, I can work 35 hours a week in December, then 5 hours a week in July.
Why are these the worst jobs in 2010? Did a limousine liberal come up with this list? In this economy most of these would be nothing less than damn good jobs. Most of them come with benefits which are worth tens of thousands of dollars themselves. Sad thing is our greedy government, greedy unions, and greedy trial lawyers are driving most of these jobs out of the US.
I’ve been a prison guard for 7 years but to my knowledge, being a prison guard is the worst jop especialy when one single guard look after 60 to 70 top criminals.
Emagine the amount of abusive language and treat you recieve during your tour of duty.