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The 13 lowest-paying jobs where people work over 40 hours a week

By Business Insider
Oct 4, 2016

If you're a workaholic, odds are you can't help but put in more hours than most. With some jobs, there's a lot of payoff for this. For others, not so much. To find jobs with the least payoff for working a lot, we analyzed US Census data for about 478 occupations from the Minnesota Population Center's 2014 American Community Survey Integrated Public Use Microdata Series.

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