• Median pay: $89,300
• Top pay: $138,000
• 10-year job growth: 18%

A user experience designer spends a lot of the day thinking about how a person interacts with digital products, like websites. It might be about rearranging buttons on a webpage, or changing the way someone interacts with an online educational tool.

What's great: These designers are responsible for raising the bar when it comes to experiencing digital products. That skill is increasingly in demand. "User experience has caught on so much, both as something that people enjoy doing and something that is more and more widely recognized as being valuable to a growing number of companies," said user experience designer Louisa Armbrust. --J.E.

Quality of life ratings:
Personal satisfaction: B | Benefit to society: B | Telecommuting: A | Low stress: A

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