{"id":9100,"date":"2015-12-14T10:52:21","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T10:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migqxjzty5-staging.onrocket.site\/blog\/?p=9100"},"modified":"2022-12-05T15:30:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:30:50","slug":"29-jobs-from-fiction-that-are-more-exciting-than-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/29-jobs-from-fiction-that-are-more-exciting-than-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"How much do fictional characters earn?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>January is the busiest time of year for jobseekers, with many of us dreaming of new opportunities or a bigger pay packet. While Adzuna is gearing up to help millions of people find their perfect jobs, we can\u2019t make every dream come true. If your life ambition is to be an MIB Agent or Intergalactic Police Officer\u00a0we\u2019ve got bad news: these jobs only exist in fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Since we love all things jobs \u2013 yes, even jobs that don\u2019t actually exist \u2013 we decided to pull together some of fiction\u2019s most famous jobs that are (probably) more exciting than yours and put them in a gorgeous infographic. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><em>A note on recommended salaries:<\/em> our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/jobs\/salary-predictor.html\">salary predictor<\/a> is great for predicting the salaries of software engineers, social workers and electricians because we analyse over a million job adverts. But we don&#8217;t have any data for Pokemon Gym Leaders, Starship Captains or Raptor Wranglers. So instead, we\u2019ve used the rather less scientific method of comparing the salaries of equivalent jobs in the real world when appropriate along\u00a0with a large dollop of guesswork.<\/p>\n<p>If you think we\u2019ve grossly over or undervalued a particular job role, or if we\u2019ve missed out something altogether, feel free to Tweet us about it at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adzuna\">@adzuna<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/jobs\/contact-us.html\">get in touch directly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fictional-Jobs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9107\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fictional-Jobs.jpg\" alt=\"Jobs From Fiction Infographic\" width=\"1000\" height=\"3646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fictional-Jobs.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fictional-Jobs-82x300.jpg 82w, https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Fictional-Jobs-281x1024.jpg 281w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>What Fictional Characters From Films Would Be Paid<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Raptor Wrangler (Jurassic Park) &#8211; 40k<\/li>\n<li>Jedi Knight (Star Wars) &#8211; 35k<\/li>\n<li>Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters) &#8211; 30k<\/li>\n<li>Architect (Inception) &#8211; 55k<\/li>\n<li>Replicant Test (Blade Runner) &#8211; 30k<\/li>\n<li>Operator (The Matrix) &#8211; 15k<\/li>\n<li>Superhero Costume Designer (The Incredibles) &#8211; 45k<\/li>\n<li>Scarers (Monsters Inc) &#8211; 25k<\/li>\n<li>Video Game Character (Wreckit Ralph) &#8211; 20k<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What Fictional Characters From Books Would Be Paid<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Gamemaker (The Hunger Games) &#8211; 45k<\/li>\n<li>Double 0 Agent (James Bond) &#8211; 80k<\/li>\n<li>Care of Magical Creatures Professor (Harry Potter) &#8211; 45k<\/li>\n<li>Ministry of Truth Clerk (1984) &#8211; 35k<\/li>\n<li>The Hand of the King (Game of Thrones) &#8211; 30k<\/li>\n<li>Dream Blower (The BFG) &#8211; 35k<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What Fictional Characters From Comic Books Would Be Paid<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Intergalactic Police Officer (The Green Lantern) &#8211; 40k<\/li>\n<li>MIB Agent (Men in Black) &#8211; 45k<\/li>\n<li>Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. &#8211; 120k<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What Fictional Characters From Myths Would Be Paid<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Tooth Fairy &#8211; 200k<\/li>\n<li>Santa Claus &#8211; pro bono<\/li>\n<li>Easter Bunny &#8211; pro bono<\/li>\n<li>Cupid &#8211; pro bono<\/li>\n<li>Ferryman to hell (Charon) &#8211; pro bono<\/li>\n<li>Fairy Godmother &#8211; pro bono<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What Fictional Characters From TV Would Be Paid<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Watcher (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) &#8211; 30k<\/li>\n<li>Starship Captain (Star Trek) &#8211; 90k<\/li>\n<li>Companion (Doctor Who) &#8211; 25k<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What Fictional Characters From Video Games Would Be Paid<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pokemon Gym Leader (Pokemon) &#8211; 35k<\/li>\n<li>Travel Agent at the Department of Death (Grim Fandango) &#8211; 35k<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January is the busiest time of year for jobseekers, with many of us dreaming of new opportunities or a bigger pay packet. While Adzuna is gearing up to help millions of people find their perfect jobs, we can\u2019t make every dream come true. If your life ambition is to be an MIB Agent or Intergalactic<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/29-jobs-from-fiction-that-are-more-exciting-than-yours\/\"> Continued \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":9102,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-just-for-fun"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adzuna.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}