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Originally Posted by Arles
Depends, a lot of those jobs are harder to find. So, if a 60K a year guy loses his job, he can find another fairly easily. If a guy making 120K loses his job, a lot of times he's making that because he's been at his current company for a long time. Going back on the market, he may find it tough to get a new job at that rate. The stress may be more "I can't afford to lose this job" more than the difficulty of the job.
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I agree this is one factor in "stress" (e.g. living paycheck to paycheck). I think other factors include work environment/working conditions, poor managers, low growth potential etc.
If level of stress is limited to just the actual work someone has to do (e.g. flipping burgers, Macy's retail clerk etc.), IMO higher paying jobs have more stress. If you factor in all the other stuff, I'd lean towards lower paying jobs have more stress.