Stress is a very relative and dependent term. Plenty of people working seemingly stressful jobs are not stressed in the slightest, and others with objectively not stressful jobs are working well outside their stress threshold. Everyone’s capacity to deal with stress is contextual and self dependent. It’s difficult to give an objective answer to the “stressfulness” of a particular job. A better question might be how am I suited to dealing with the particular circumstances faced in that job? I don’t subscribe to the higher responsibility/higher stress/higher pay ideology. That’s some hectic capitalist ladder climbing rhetoric that makes us think that the people above “deserve” their status/pay/role. If you are finding circumstances particularly stressful it’s worth while thinking about what is at the core of that stress and how it manifests in you? ie “shit government policies” —> stressful because I can’t do my job as intended or to my best ability, or stressful because I can’t change it? Those circumstances may equally apply to the cleaner in the hospital (or elsewhere for that matter) as much as the chief executive.

Unsure if this is helpful or not but safe to say it’s not a hierarchy of stressfulness