6 Most Adulterous Professions in America

What are 6 most adulterous professions in America? I know what you’re thinking right now, that it is a myth that some occupations are more adulterous than others. The statistics show that some professions are really more adulterous than others, so we decided to discover why.

In our article 10 most adulterous countries in the world, we have already written about possibility of one gene that is connected to cheating and that it is biologically possible to love more than one person at the same time. What do you think? Would you forgive adultery? The experts say that people usually don’t forgive adultery, except when somebody is really worth it and deserves another chance. Think about the trust and do you trust that person, would you be ready to forgive and forget? I read once that if you forgive adultery, you shouldn’t serve it for breakfast. If you really decide to give another chance to a person, be fair and forget it.

Usual profile of a man who cheats on his spouse is this: he is around 40 years old, married for 10 to 15 years and have two or three kids. A woman who cheats is usually younger, in her thirties, have one or two kids and „happily“ married for five years. What do we learn from this? That women are less faithful and faster fall in love outside the marriage? Maybe, but overall, 23 % of men cheat, while the number of women who are unfaithful is 19% in the United States of America.

To find out which are 6 most adulterous professions in America, we were looking for the percentage of people who admitted adultery and left information about their vocation. We went through the rankings from various websites, such as Boing boing, Big think, Alfa brain, and many more. We wanted to find the lists that contain the percentage of people who are registered users on some of the sites for dating for married people, so we can have a real picture about who cheat the most!

If you are not already familiar with the sites mentioned above and think it’s unbelievable, we found out that there’s actually a huge number of these sites for married people in America. Some of the most popular are: Ashley Madison, Illicit Encounters, Married Secrets, Victoria Milan, Hush Affairs, Gleeden, Find new passion, etc. Well, if you still don’t believe it, some of them have over 1,000,000 registered users!

We have combined the data from two research and made our list of 6 most unfaithful occupations in America. One research was conducted by the website Illicit Encounters USA (1 million members) and the other by Ashley Madison (1.9 million members). We have combined these two surveys and awarded 6 points to the profession which was in the first place, 5 points for the second place and so on. If more than one profession is at some place, we have put two or more of them with the same sum of points. So let’s see together what we got:

6. IT professionals/Communications

 1 point

Looks like all that time spent on the internet is used for something different from work. We said that there are numerous websites for married couples who made the effort to attract a lot of people. 6 % of all the registered users were in IT or Communications. It is true that among IT freelancers there is a higher divorce rate, maybe because they always work, work a lot and don’t really have some spare time separated from the normal working hours, therefore, this occupation is considered also as one of the most stressful.

5. Engineer

2 points

It is said that professions that have the highest average salaries more often cheat, so we wanted to check how much do engineers earn. We looked into engineering salaries statistics to check if engineers top the lists with the highest salary (National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates). The engineers do earn a lot, predominantly computer engineers, chemical engineers and biomedical engineers. If you are married to an engineer… Well, beware of adultery!

4. Real estate agent  and self-employed

3 points

Working at home can be stressful even for a loner, because you always miss people around you and wish that you are in the office with at least one more person. It is in human nature, and we are social beings. That might be an explanation (or excuse?) for the self-employed, but what about real estate agents? They have meetings with a lot of people on a daily basis, and they apparently … well, you know what.

3. Executive and Lawyer

4 points

One of 6 most adulterous profession in the United States of America is executive (marketing executive, sales executive). With 8% of the total number of users, they are in the top three of the most unfaithful vocations. The research show that men and women who have higher incomes and who are successful in their careers are more likely to cheat on their spouses. Lawyer, for example, is an occupation with higher income and successful career, but is the pressure it carries, an excuse for cheating? Certainly not, but it is evident that they are more likely to do it than other people.

2. Police officer, Manager and HR

5 points

12 % of users on one of the websites were managers or in HR services. We have also found out that the police officers are more likely to cheat on their spouses, too, according to one of the surveys. It seems that among these 6 most unfaithful professions these are the most stressful ones. The latest research conducted by Career Cas showed that police officer is among five of the most stressful occupations in 2015!

1. Professions in the financial sector and Physicians

6 points

18 % of registered users on the dating website for married people were in the financial services (financial analyst, personal financial adviser, financial manager). Are you surprised? The other most likely occupation to cheat is a physician! So, it’s true what we heard, doctors are on the top of 6 most adulterous professions in America!