Looking for a new role or career that matches your personality? A recent report from Resume Genius takes common personality types and maps them to job options using salary data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Resume Genius used Myers-Briggs Type Indicator The personality test (MBTI), which divides people into 16 different types based on a combination of eight traits: introversion (I) and extroversion (E), sensitivity (S) and intuition (N), thinking (T) and feeling (F), and judgment (J) and perception (P). An INTJ personality type, for example, would identify more with introversion than extroversion, and would be more associated with intuition, thinking, and judgment.
Although the Myers-Briggs test has been criticized as such unclear, generalAND pseudoscience, 88 of the Fortune 100 have still used it for staff development. Marriott, Ernst & Young and the US Air Force have all used it, according to Myers-Briggs.
“By using your Myers-Briggs personality as a factor in your career exploration and decisions, you are much more likely to find work that matches your natural ways of energizing, observing the world around you, making decisions, and engagement with the world around you,” said Helen Roy, Senior Certified MBTI Professional and HR Total Rewards Consultant at SAP.
Although the report claims to find the highest-paying jobs by personality type, salaries vary considerably, from $239,200 to $52,910. The option recommended by the study may not be the ultimate top job you can find with a certain personality type – but it can be a good starting point.
“Whether you're an introvert or an extrovert, the key is to find positions that match your strengths and allow you to contribute meaningfully,” Resume Genius CEO Ed Huang said in the report, adding that “profitable work higher ones exist for every type of personality.”
Here are the jobs with the highest average salary for each personality type.
1. ISTJ — Doctor
Average annual salary: $239,200
Number of jobs (2022): 816,900
2. ESTJ — Lawyer
Average annual salary: $145,760
Number of jobs (2022): 826,300
3. INTP — Information Security Analyst
Average annual salary: $120,360
Number of jobs (2022): 168,900
4. ENTJ — CEO
Average annual salary: 103 840 dollars
Number of jobs (2022): 3,787,800
5. ENFJ — Sociologist
Average annual salary: $101,770
Number of jobs (2022): 3,300
6. INTJ — Architect
Average annual salary: $93,310
Number of jobs (2022): 123,700
7. INFJ — Psychologist
Average annual salary: $92,740
Number of jobs (2022): 196,000
8. ISFJ — Nurse
Average annual salary: $86,070
Number of jobs (2022): 3,172,500
9. ENTP — Industrial designer
Average annual salary: 76250 dollars
Number of jobs (2022): 32,400
10. ISTP — Detective
Average annual salary: $74,910
Number of jobs (2022): 808,700
11. INFP — Author
Average annual salary: $73,690
Number of jobs (2022): 151,200
12. ESFJ — High school teacher
Average annual salary: $65,220
Number of jobs (2022): 1,072,300
13. ESTP – Firefighter
Average annual salary: $57,120
Number of jobs (2022): 334,200
14. ISFP — Artist
Average annual salary: $52,910
Number of jobs (2022): 54,600