[JackFr]

Without having read the original study, it would be worthwhile to see if the there was any attempt to normalize by education level, income and age. It's likely that these are more salient factors and profession is acting as a proxy for these.

[gvb]

What is interesting is the last three "engineers" in the list are not engineers-by-education ("white collar") type engineers, they are engineers-by-trade ("blue collar"). The "engineers by trade" typically have a lower education level and probably lower income level.

Locomotive engineers and operators 15.77

Stationary engineers and boiler operators 16.99

Operating engineers and other construction equipment operators 18.97

The "blue collar" engineers have a substantially higher divorce rate than most of the "white collar" engineering professions, but the transition by percentages compared to the those preceding them in the list was a lot smoother than I expected.

[VLM]

Some google results: Average CivEng $61K (and average is going to be higher than median), median locomotive engineer $65K.

The days of blue collar folks making less than white collar folks as a class has been dead for a couple generations, but the belief lives on...

[robotcookies]

I know that the most common reason cited for divorce is finances. So it may indeed be that higher income professions in general have a lower divorce rate.