37 jobs that are great for people who love the outdoors

Get the Full StoryNot all jobs require you to sit at a desk all day, and there are plenty of careers where employees do most of their work outside.

We took a look at which occupations are best suited for those who want to be outdoors for much of the workday, using data from the US Labor Department's Occupational Information Network.

Crossing guards, farmers, and several occupations in the oil and gas industry made the list.

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Summer is in full swing, and while many people are taking advantage of the sunny weather at beaches and social distancing with friends outside as the novel coronavirus pandemic continues, some workers are out in the sun in jobs that require working outdoors full-time, year-round.

Business Insider decided to take a closer look at which occupations spend the most time outside and how much they earn.

The Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network O NET collects and scores occupations based on the importance or frequency of different work activities, contexts, values, and styles. We used O NET's work context scores for being outdoors to find out which occupations do most of their work outside. Higher values indicate a larger share of time at work spent outdoors, with 100 meaning working outside every day and zero meaning never working outside.

13 jobs on the list require being outside daily, indicated in the data with the maximum score of 100. Crossing guards were one of these occupations, and workers in this job make an average of 32,920 per year, according to May 2019 figures from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the most recent data available.

Read on to find out the 37 jobs that require being outside the most, along with their average annual salaries from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and what they do according to O NET. When there were ties in the outdoor scores, we ranked the occupations based on which job had the higher salary. 37. Emergency medical technicians and paramedics

Outdoor score: 96

Average annual salary: 38,830

What they do, according to O NET: Assess injuries, administer emergency medical care, and extricate trapped individuals.

36. Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators

Outdoor score: 96

Average annual salary: 54,210

What they do, according to O NET: Operate one or several types of power construction equipment to excavate, move, and grade earth, erect structures, or pour concrete or other hard surface pavement.

35. Telecommunications line installers and repairers

Outdoor score: 96

Average annual salary: 59,670

What they do, according to O NET: Install and repair telecommunications cable, including fiber optics.

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