Don't Take These Jobs If You Want to Get Married

If you have a crush on your dentist, you might be barking up the wrong tree: 81 percent of dentists are already married—the highest marriage rate for any profession. Someone’s chosen occupation, it turns out, can tell you a lot about the chances they’re single, married, divorced, or in some other relationship arrangement. Using Census data and data from the American Community Survey, we charted marriage and divorce rates across occupations from from 1950 to 2010.