Not just about the money: pioneering study reveals best and worst jobs in UK

Full earnings' account for wellbeing as well as financial reward - and make income gap look even worse

If you seek happiness, try captaining a ship or tiling walls for a living. But choose to be a judge, a housing officer or a theme park attendant, and prepare for a measure of misery.

Groundbreaking research into UK employees' full earnings", which tries to account for wellbeing as well as cash income, has revealed the jobs where the reality of the working day undermines the benefit of salary and those that offer the greatest rewards in addition to salary.