The Best Low Effort Jobs That Have the Highest Salaries, According to People on Reddit

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Sep 19, 2023 9:00 PM EDT

If there's one thing that most employees would like out of their job, it's to be paid more. The costs of living keep on rising while a lot of salaries end up standing still. It can feel like the easiest way out of this predicament would be to find a role that has a handsome wage packet no matter what happens.

This is easier said than done, especially when you have the kind of skill set that doesn't usually get rewarded with a lot of money. Also, a lot of the roles that pay a big chunk of change can be pretty stressful. This conundrum is behind one Redditor asking the world about the kind of jobs that are at the mythical intersection of low effort and well paid. People gave some intriguing examples, although most did have some kind of catch. There are worse ways to make a living than these. 

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    Human body - r/ask u/deleted 6d ● What's a low effort job with a surprisingly high salary?
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    Font - gil_beard 6d I made $26.75 an hour with full benefits and being in a union as a traditional security guard at a large factory. The job mostly consisted of sitting in an air conditioned shack with my own bathroom and a small kitchen at the main entrance, watching CCTV screens and checking people in. The hardest part about the job was escorting out fired employees to their vehicles. Other than that I spent most of my time reading books and learning the best ways to make my own coffee.
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    Font - flow_with_the_tao 6d Everything with a top secret clearance, eg. janitor in a nuclear facility. : Reply 41.8k ↓ danyboy501 6d I served with a guy whose grandfather worked at a nuclear facility as an "office boy" basically making sure everyone had paper for printers, staples, etc. Dude brought home 6 figures for decades and put his kids through college and helped his grandbabies out. Real American dream stuff right there.
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    Font - supergooduser 6d The guys in the missile silos. 1.) It's a state side job, albeit in generally remote areas 2.) You're locked in and work a 24 hour shift, so your shift is essentially one day on three days off. You go to work once and then have a three day weekend 3.) There's an annual preparedness drill, which is reading some codes and turning a key, but it's one of those things where your boss will generally give you the heads up 4.) You work with another guy, and off the record, you br
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    Font - Professional Pass486 6d It's much easier if you're physically attractive and have a charismatic personality. 4lfred 6d ⠀ Reply 659 Charismatic personality (like most qualities) is not a gift, rather a skill-set anyone can learn given time and practice. (I'm a server at a 5-star hotel restaurant, I chose hospitality to face my social anxiety head-on, now making six figures and loving my job)
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    Font - fbi_surveillance99 6d Being a member of congress : Reply 4 1.1k ↓ Joeuxmardigras 6d Don't forget about the insider trading information you gain!
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    Font - Funny-Fee-6775 6d Work for the Yankees. If George can do it, so can you! ⠀ Reply 4234 Ness_tea_BK 6d The key is to always look annoyed. Then people think you're busy.
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    Font - Zestyclose-Hippo-538 6d Payment systems management. I literally play mobile games all day and make sure our credit card processing system works as intended. I make about 150k a year with bonuses and full benefits. My 401k matches me up to 10k annually.
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    Font - FotographicFrenchFry 6d I'm an office manager for a public agency in my state. I negotiated for a 60k salary to start with and then got bumped up by 12% after our legislature voted to increase our salaries. About 60% of the time I'm browsing Reddit waiting for work to come in. I love it.
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    Font - happyme321 6d Airport janitor is a federal job that's good money and benefits and not much work.
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    Human body - Lillianinwa 6d Vascular access nurse. I get paid 100k/year and all I do is stab people all day. It's really not that hard once you have the skills/experience.
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    Font - DocRobertSloan 6d Product managers at large companies (3000+ employees). Relative to the overall earnings, the effort is very low. A lot of PMs are making $250k annually while working 25-30 hours a week, remotely!
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    Font - Variation_Conscious 6d Industrial Radioagrapher, I was a Licensed Industrial Radioagrapher and the majority of my work was to be on the jobsite regardless if I had anything that needed to be shot. Theres alot of down time and we'd sleep, watch TV and goof off while on the clock. There were times when we'd show up as scheduled and were told to go home and wait for them to call. Sometimes it was a lack of materials or other BS and one pipeline I worked let my brother get 60 days of not havi
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    Font - unklphoton 6d Play the guitar on the MTV.
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    Rectangle - Legal Lab_3288 6d Scrum Master You run a couple meetings and that's it
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    Font - LeafaricsOn 6d I manage a Whataburger. I'd say it's pretty easy for $26 an hr (about 60-65k a year plus bonuses and OT). I do money stuff (drawers, deposits, payroll), manage and hire employees, keep the store clean, deal with HR issues, customer service, etc. Basically your normal restaurant responsibilities anywhere. Except I get great benefits and paid very fair in my opinion for what I do. I'm grateful
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    Rectangle - Relative_Chemical188 6d Being a companion at a senior home, $200 a day, 4hr shifts 7 days a week. All I have to do is hangout literally, sometimes its gets boring and I miss my kids but overall I'm blessed.
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    Font - tortoiseterrapinturt 6d Waste management : THA Reply 4105 ↓ SamVilian1893 6d Definitely a good gig, my buddies been a garbage man for years. Union gig, has pension, company pays for 100% of health care, he just drives around listing to pandora making 80k easy.. 30 year retirement regardless of age. He'll be retired at 50 bringing home 7500 a month in Pension!
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    Font - _H3ADL3SS_6d Comes with some education requirements but my friend became a registered dietician and then opened her own practice. She hires people fresh out of school to do all the actual diet consulting. She just arranges schedules and over sees things from her laptop at home. She made over 300k last year lol
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    Font - JuustinB 6d Not necessarily high salary but my wife was hired by a tech startup earning $60k to work from home. She did literally NOTHING for 11 months before they realized they massively overhired and laid off 70% of their staff. She just watched Netflix all day waiting for the one or two emails she had to respond to. Work just never came. I walked into her "office" to find her asleep at least half a dozen times.
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    Font - BestTyming 6d Becoming a firefighter in a city that doesn't have many yearly fires Yeah you do technically have to study and train for al year first and you also have to report to some EMS calls, but the outcome really pays off My best friend is the firefighter and he basically DOESNT DO SHT() and makes almost 57k a year. He's at the station playing the game, washing cars, cooking, etc etc. yeah you gotta stay at the station for 2-3 days at a time. But he's currently working one day on. 2
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