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Jobs with no phone calls

Plenty of people can handle talking in person and still dread the phone. O*NET asks workers how often their job involves telephone conversations, from never to every day. We took the occupations in the lowest tenth and sorted them by projected annual openings, so the jobs with the most openings come first.

Projected annual openings come from the BLS. They include openings from growth and from people leaving or changing occupations, so they are an estimate of opportunity, not a count of vacancies.

What the data shows

  • Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand have the most projected openings on the list, about 340,500 a year.
  • Together the 40 jobs below average about 1,632,500 projected openings a year.
  • 94% of cutting, punching, and press machine setters, operators, and tenders, metal and plastic say they never have phone conversations at work, the highest share on the list.
  • 20% of these 40 jobs pay more than the US median wage of $50,980.
  • 39 of the 40 typically need no more than a high school diploma to start.
  • 18 of the 40 are projected to shrink between 2025 and 2035.

The ranking

Click a column heading to sort. Ratings are O*NET averages on a 1 to 5 scale; hover a heading for what it measures. Pay is the national median annual wage. Growth is the projected change in employment from 2025 to 2035.

# Occupation PhoneFace-to-face Median pay Typical entry education Growth 2025-35 Projected openings a year
1 Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand 2.54.0 $40,240 No formal educational credential +1.8% 340,500
2 Cooks, Restaurant 2.03.4 $37,390 No formal educational credential +12.1% 218,600
3 Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 2.54.4 $35,510 No formal educational credential +0.6% 175,500
4 Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers 1.53.0 $39,150 No formal educational credential +4.7% 149,500
5 Amusement and Recreation Attendants 2.35.0 $32,150 No formal educational credential +3.7% 100,400
6 Cooks, Fast Food 2.24.3 $30,890 No formal educational credential +0.6% 86,400
7 Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse 2.44.6 $35,660 No formal educational credential -2.4% 72,500
8 Dishwashers 2.24.4 $34,810 No formal educational credential -1.0% 68,900
9 Packaging and Filling Machine Operators and Tenders 1.64.2 $43,220 High school diploma or equivalent +4.1% 41,400
10 Welders, Cutters, Solderers, and Brazers 2.14.3 $53,750 High school diploma or equivalent +2.4% 40,300
11 Bakers 2.34.4 $37,160 No formal educational credential +5.5% 36,500
12 Machinists 2.44.5 $58,750 High school diploma or equivalent +1.0% 26,100
13 Teaching Assistants, Postsecondary 2.54.6 $42,910 Bachelor's degree +2.7% 25,700
14 Food Batchmakers 2.44.5 $42,290 High school diploma or equivalent +6.5% 23,100
15 Helpers--Production Workers 1.44.8 $39,070 High school diploma or equivalent -8.2% 20,900
16 Crossing Guards and Flaggers 2.03.7 $38,100 No formal educational credential +3.5% 17,300
17 Coating, Painting, and Spraying Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.64.5 $48,250 High school diploma or equivalent +2.5% 15,300
18 Molding, Coremaking, and Casting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 2.14.6 $44,350 High school diploma or equivalent -3.4% 13,800
19 Gambling Dealers 1.44.5 $34,320 High school diploma or equivalent +3.4% 13,300
20 Cutting, Punching, and Press Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 1.24.0 $46,330 High school diploma or equivalent -10.5% 13,200
21 Computer Numerically Controlled Tool Operators 2.24.2 $50,690 High school diploma or equivalent -9.4% 12,500
22 Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 2.04.9 $47,180 High school diploma or equivalent +0.6% 11,600
23 Sewing Machine Operators 1.63.5 $36,670 No formal educational credential -15.1% 9,800
24 Sheet Metal Workers 2.14.1 $61,800 High school diploma or equivalent +2.5% 9,800
25 Paper Goods Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 1.64.7 $50,270 High school diploma or equivalent -3.6% 9,000
26 Mixing and Blending Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 2.14.6 $48,990 High school diploma or equivalent -6.1% 7,900
27 Slaughterers and Meat Packers 2.04.1 $40,130 No formal educational credential +2.0% 7,700
28 Postal Service Mail Sorters, Processors, and Processing Machine Operators 1.94.3 $58,470 No formal educational credential -5.3% 7,300
29 Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters 1.84.2 $46,680 High school diploma or equivalent -2.9% 6,900
30 Structural Iron and Steel Workers 2.54.0 $62,780 High school diploma or equivalent +3.1% 5,900
31 Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products 1.84.6 $35,730 No formal educational credential -3.4% 5,800
32 Extruding and Drawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 2.04.7 $47,720 High school diploma or equivalent +0.7% 5,400
33 Cutting and Slicing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 2.34.8 $46,570 High school diploma or equivalent -0.9% 5,400
34 Structural Metal Fabricators and Fitters 2.44.6 $51,330 High school diploma or equivalent -6.2% 4,800
35 Sawing Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Wood 2.24.3 $42,770 High school diploma or equivalent -1.0% 4,500
36 Grinding, Lapping, Polishing, and Buffing Machine Tool Setters, Operators, and Tenders, Metal and Plastic 1.54.3 $46,550 High school diploma or equivalent -10.8% 4,500
37 Machine Feeders and Offbearers 1.84.1 $41,220 No formal educational credential -13.1% 4,000
38 Aircraft Service Attendants 2.53.5 $40,450 High school diploma or equivalent +5.6% 4,000
39 Semiconductor Processing Technicians 2.44.2 $51,430 High school diploma or equivalent +8.2% 3,400
40 Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers 2.24.8 $65,380 High school diploma or equivalent -5.6% 3,100

What to keep in mind

  • A low phone rating means calls are rare, not that they never happen.
  • O*NET does not measure remote work, so this page can't tell you which of these jobs can be done from home.
  • O*NET ratings are averages of worker answers on a 1 to 5 scale. Some questions ask how much (contact), some how often (face-to-face, phone, public speaking, conflict, noise) and some how important (teamwork, customers). They are shown on their own scales.
  • The ratings describe what the job asks of workers. They do not measure personality, and they are not medical or psychological advice.
  • Pay and growth are national figures. Local pay varies. We ranked 743 of the 760 occupations in the data. The other 17 are left out: 13 because O*NET flags their ratings as unreliable or publishes no respondent count, and 4 because the BLS publishes no annual median wage for them.

See every occupation in the full introvert jobs table.

Common questions

Can I do these jobs from home?

This page can't say. O*NET rates how often a job involves phone calls, not where the work is done. Check individual job postings for remote options.

Are these jobs only for introverts?

No. The ratings describe what the work asks of the people doing it, not anyone's personality. Introverts and extroverts can do any job on the list.

Where does the data come from?

Work ratings come from the O*NET 31.0 Database, where workers in each occupation answer questions about their job. Pay is the national median annual wage from BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. Growth, projected openings, entry education and training come from BLS Employment Projections 2025-35.

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