15 high-paying jobs for people who don't like talking to others

Some people work best by themselves.Thankfully, there are plenty of jobs that require very little person-to-person contact.Using data from O*NET, we calculated the jobs that require the bare minimum of dealing with others.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.For some workers, talking to other people is the absolute worst part of their day. But if they had a job where they kept human interaction to a minimum, they just might thrive.To calculate the jobs with the least amount of human contact, we used data from the Department of Labor's O*NET Online occupational database, which lists seven job characteristics that involve talking to other people: Speaking; communicating with persons outside the organization; communicating with peers, supervisors, or subordinates; contact with others; face-to-face discussions; public speaking; and social orientation. After averaging those seven characteristics together, we filtered for jobs with median annual wages above the overall national median in 2018 of $38,640.Here are the jobs with the lowest average social scores. They're the highest-paying jobs you can have that don't require talking to other people.