Highest and Lowest Divorce Rates by Occupation

[sanantone]

Alpha shared this link in one of my threads. 

Lowest Divorce Rates

Actuaries - 17%

Physical Scientists and Medical Scientists and Life Scientists - 18.9 to 19.6%

Clergy - 19.8%

Software Developers, Applications and System Software - 20.3%

Physical Therapists - 20.7%

Optometrists - 20.8%

Engineers - 21.1 to 22%

Popular Careers with Low Divorce Rates

Physicians and Surgeons - 21.8%

Veterinarians - 23%

Highest Divorce Rates

Gaming Managers and Gaming Services Workers - 52.9 to 50.3%

Bartenders - 52.7%

Flight Attendants - 50.5%

Switchboard Operators, Telemarketers, and Telephone Operators - 49.7 to 47.8%

Metals and Plastics Machine Setters and Operators - 49.6 to 50.1%

Massage Therapists - 47.8%

Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocation Nurses - 47%

First-Line Supervisors of Correctional Officers - 46.9%

Dancers and Choreographers - 46.8%

Popular Career with High Divorce Rate

Professional Athletes - 60 to 80%

https://divorce.lovetoknow.com/Divorce_R...Occupation

[LevelUP]

According to the report, researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) estimate that 78% of college-educated women who married for the first time between 2006 and 2010 could expect their marriages to last at least 20 years, compared to just 40% of women with a high school education or less.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr049.pdf

This would explain the correlation between the jobs you listed.

It was funny you did this thread because I just happened to stumble upon this information as I researched why you absolutely need a college degree thread a couple of days ago.

[sanantone]

According to the report, researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) estimate that 78% of college-educated women who married for the first time between 2006 and 2010 could expect their marriages to last at least 20 years, compared to just 40% of women with a high school education or less.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr049.pdf

This would explain the correlation between the jobs you listed.

It was funny you did this thread because I just happened to stumble upon this information as I researched why you absolutely need a college degree thread a couple of days ago.

The correlation is income and income stability. Notice how the occupations with the lowest divorce rates all have high salaries? The only exception is clergy, and that's probably because divorce is frowned upon in the most popular religions. Financial problems is believed to be the most common root cause of divorces. Also, women without college degrees tend to get married younger, which is also correlated with higher divorce rates.

[LevelUP]

The correlation is income and income stability. Notice how the occupations with the lowest divorce rates all have high salaries? The only exception is clergy, and that's probably because divorce is frowned upon in the most popular religions. Financial problems is believed to be the most common root cause of divorces. Also, women without college degrees tend to get married younger, which is also correlated with higher divorce rates.

Almost all the jobs you listed with low divorce rates required a college education.

Except for nursing, all the jobs you listed with higher divorce rates didn't require college education though substantially less than 50% might have a degree in some fields. 

If money was everything, then why do, on average, 78% of college-educated women have lasting marriages though some college-educated fields such as teaching don't pay all that much?

[sanantone]

The correlation is income and income stability. Notice how the occupations with the lowest divorce rates all have high salaries? The only exception is clergy, and that's probably because divorce is frowned upon in the most popular religions. Financial problems is believed to be the most common root cause of divorces. Also, women without college degrees tend to get married younger, which is also correlated with higher divorce rates.

Almost all the jobs you listed with low divorce rates required a college education.

Except for nursing, all the jobs you listed with higher divorce rates didn't require college education though substantially less than 50% might have a degree in some fields. 

If money was everything, then why do, on average, 78% of college-educated women have lasting marriages though some college-educated fields such as teaching don't pay all that much?

Clergy and software developers don't need a college degree. 

On average, college-educated women earn more than non-college-educated women, they marry at an older age, and they tend to marry higher earning men because higher earning men are in their social circles. Non-college-educated women are also more likely to marry after having a child out of wedlock and after having cohabitated with a partner for a long period of time. This leads to higher divorce rates because people marry out of convenience and not because they selected the individual as the one they wanted to marry. Ultimately, it's about maturity, finances, and socioeconomic status. 

The median income for a high school teacher is $61,820, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That figure is higher than the median income of $42,068 for those with only a high school diploma.

[Johann]

Clergy and software developers don't need a college degree. 

Maybe not - but a majority of clergy HAVE at least a bachelor's. Varies by denom. And yes, some require it absolutely. All kinds of surveys. And software developers? Need those degrees or not, 75% HAVE college degrees, according to StackOverflow.

[sanantone]

Clergy and software developers don't need a college degree. 

Maybe not - but a majority of clergy HAVE at least a bachelor's. Varies by denom. And yes, some require it absolutely. All kinds of surveys. And software developers? Need those degrees or not, 75% HAVE college degrees, according to StackOverflow.

Almost half of first line supervisors of correctional officers have an associate's degree or higher, and they still have a higher divorce rate than the vast majority of occupations, many of which hardly have any workers with college degrees. My info is specific to the U.S. Only 15k of the 65k respondents Stack Overflow had were in the U.S. Stack Overflow primarily surveyed those who follow their blogs, socia media pages, and email lists, so it's not a representative sample. This is called a convenience sample. Stack Overflow acknowledges that highly-engaged users of their pages were more likely to see the survey ads. Other sources with better sampling methods and only American respondents estimate that 40-something to 50-something percent of software developers have a college degree.

[sanantone]

According to Indeed's job postings, 50% of gaming manager job openings require an associate's degree or higher.

https://www.indeed.com/career/gaming-man...eer-advice

[ifomonay]

I like the Gaming Manager one. "Honey, what are you doing play games all the time?"... "Dude, (calls his wife "dude"), I'm a freelance Gaming Manager" lol.
Sorry for the gender bias. Had to do it to make the joke work.

[ss20ts]

Switchboard operators? These things still exist? Where?