24 high-paying jobs for people who don't like stress

You can bring home a fat paycheck without having to be stressed all the time.

Here are 24 jobs that pay more than $70,000 a year, on average, and earned a stress

tolerance rating of 70 or lower on a scale from zero to 100.

Materials Scientists

Stress tolerance: 53.0

Average annual salary (2014): $94,350

Mathematicians

Stress tolerance: 57.2

Average annual salary (2014): $104,350

Geographers

Stress tolerance:58.0

Average annual salary (2014): $75,610

Economists

Stress tolerance: 58.7

Average annual salary (2014): $105,290

Statisticians

Stress tolerance: 59.0

Average annual salary (2014): $84,010

Agricultural Engineers

Stress tolerance: 60.8

Average annual salary (2014): $75,440

Political Scientists

Stress tolerance: 60.8

Average annual salary (2014): $104,000

Materials Engineers

Stress tolerance: 61.0

Average annual salary (2014): $91,150

Biomedical Engineers

Stress tolerance: 61.3

Average annual salary (2014): $91,760

Physicists

Stress tolerance: 61.3

Average annual salary (2014): $117,300

Economics Teachers (postsecondary)

Stress tolerance: 61.8

Average annual salary (2014): $102,120

Astronomers

Stress tolerance: 62.0

Average annual salary (2014): $107,140

Geoscientists (except hydrologists and geographers)

Stress tolerance: 62.5

Average annual salary (2014): $105,390

Law Teachers (postsecondary)

Stress tolerance: 62.7

Average annual salary (2014): $126,270

Operations Research Analysts

Stress tolerance: 63.0

Average annual salary (2014): $82,940

Actuaries
Stress tolerance: 63.7

Average annual salary (2014): $110,090

Computer and Information Systems Managers

Stress tolerance: 64.2

Average annual salary (2014): $136,280

Applications Software Developers

Stress tolerance: 65.0

Average annual salary (2014): $99,530

Hydrologists

Stress tolerance: 65.5

Average annual salary (2014): $81,930

Orthodontists

Stress tolerance: 67.0

Average annual salary (2014): $201,030

Computer Hardware Engineers

Stress tolerance: 67.0

Average annual salary (2014): $110,650

Art Directors

Stress tolerance: 69.0

Average annual salary (2014): $97,850

Marine Engineers and Naval Architects

Stress tolerance: 69.6

Average annual salary (2014): $99,160

Optometrists

Stress tolerance: 70.3

Average annual salary (2014): $113,010