http://flowingdata.com/2017/07/25/divorce-and-occupation/

This is an interesting look at factors that affect divorce rates. It only presents the data that there is, doesn't draw further conclusions than are warranted, but it provides good data to compare to other studies that have been referenced here.

I've picked out several things that I find interesting. Actuaries have the lowest risk by a significant margin, and they assess risk. Gaming managers have the highest, and other workers in gaming aren't far behind. Bartenders and flight attendants are also very high (flight attendants are completely unsurprising). Gaming being so high suggests that a tendency towards gambling is a risk, I'm not sure how much people working in the gaming industry gamble themselves though.

When you look at salary, under $60'000 per year everything is clustered together, and it looks like salary wouldn't play as much a role as occupation does. After $60'000 per year, the trend is downwards as you earn more.

At the highest earning jobs, you have physicians and nurse anaesthetists. https://datausa.io/profile/soc/291151/#demographics anaesthetists have a higher proportion of women until age 37, so that it seems to be such an outlier might because of more women in the profession.

Among those who don't earn much, clergy have the lowest rate. I don't think that needs to be unpacked. But that actuaries do better means that simply marrying a devout woman isn't a cure all.

At $20'000 and less, military and agricultural workers have the lowest rate. Military has me wondering a bit, on the one hand it also seems pretty self evident, but there's no shortage of stories of unfaithful military wives. Maybe we just hear about that more because it's a type of sluttiness that is less tolerated by society. Agriculture is the one field with high risk of workplace death that has more than a few token women in it, rather they make up a quarter. Women farmers would appear to be outliers in female behaviour.

Motion picture projectionists and library assistants earn the same. Projectionists have a lower rate, and are overwhelmingly male. https://sunbird.datausa.io/profile/soc/393021/#demographics

Mainwhile, library assistants are overwhelmingly female. https://sunbird.datausa.io/profile/soc/434121/#demographics

I haven't looked at every data point, but it does appear that a significant portion of the difference is accounted for by whether an occupation is primarily male or female.

Looking at the top end, workplace stress could be a factor. Flight attendants are always going to be working odd hours and away from home, that's a strain on a relationship and they all admit it's a down side (with the matching upside of lots of NSA sex, so you should never have a FA as a girlfriend, just a plate). Gaming service workers, switchboard operators and telemarketers don't have that particular problem, but share the FA aspect of constantly talking to customers/clients.

The common belief is that women are drawn towards jobs where they get to deal with people, but they don't seem to be particularly happy in jobs where they have to talk to people all the time. The jobs that appeal to the nurturing instinct, personal care aides and nursing aides, are pretty close to telemarketers for divorce rates. The aides and telemarketers are also very low paying jobs, so the suggestion that as long as you make more money than your wife the divorce risk goes down doesn't seem to play out. Perhaps the only reason women take shit jobs with shit pay like that is because their husband doesn't earn enough to support a family, so she would be resentful that she has to work.

https://flowingdata.com/2016/03/30/divorce-rates-for-different-groups/

Here employed, unemployed and not in labour force are compared.

Employed is best for men (duh). Not in labour force and unemployed end up at the same rate for men, although that's getting divorced at 90 years old, but early on not-in-labour force actually has a lower risk for men than being unemployed. Losing your job, searching for one and not finding it appears to be worse than simply not having a job.

For women, unemployed has a higher likelihood than employed (not too surprising, stress is going to spill over). Not in labour force is the lowest. That would mostly mean husband works, wife is homemaker. This makes sense, if you're going to have a marriage, what's the point of a DINK set-up?

For education, more is better for men, but there's not a huge difference between a bachelor's or master's. Any tertiary education, including a trade would be advisable, as long as it gets you a job.

Women, high school or less has the highest rate, bachelor's lowest, and it goes up with a master's or more. This surprises me a bit. I expected it to go up with a master's, but not that high school would still be higher. Hypergamy would suggest that women with a bachelor's would only marry a man with a master's or more, so the lowest rate for women with bachelor's might be a side effect of men with advanced educations having the lowest rate.

Hispanic and Asian have the lowest rates, both men and women. Native and Black are the highest. White in the middle, but closer to Black than Hispanic.

Several take aways from this:

The job the woman does doesn't matter so much, if she's working she's more likely to divorce than if she stays at home. (I would have liked to see data according to full time and part time work as well.)

The job you do does seem to matter, although actuaries being the outliers with the lowest rate suggests that risk assessment might be more important than anything else - choose, or discard, your wife carefully. Some jobs might tend to increase marriage stability. Athletes and military stand out among the low paying jobs as having lower divorce rates. They're more alpha jobs, so the idea that you balance alpha and beta for a LTR and are alpha only for STR/ONS doesn't seem supported. Alpha all the way.

Education matters, for men it might just be job security and income. But for women it's really you want one who is somewhat educated, but not too much (if they do, they put themselves out of the market anyway).

Asians having the lowest rate might have something to do with Confucianism, which has some strong ideals about family life, roles and organisation. Hispanics probably that they're Catholic and divorce is frowned upon in practice and prohibited in theory.

Not in labour force rates for women being the lowest, and predominantly female jobs being higher, once again contraindicates marrying for any reason other than children and family. Don't be a dumbass and marry for love. Possibly one of the biggest blue pill mistakes.