I think many of us would agree that many of the worst-paying jobs are also the most difficult and/or the most draining. However, difficult is a subjective term. I’ve been trying to see if anyone has tried to empirically measure difficulty in different jobs and different fields(most exploited, most hours or most intense hours, most stress, etc). Does such work exist? Can an hour as an accountant be compared to an hour as a social worker, for example, and one seen, objectively, as more difficult work? Or maybe there are different categories of difficulty that certain jobs are number one in?
I hope I’m making sense. I feel there must be some academics in the field discussing this.