$100,000+ earners spend 87% of their workweek typing

$100,000+ earners spend 87% of their workweek typing$100,000+ earners spend 87% of their workweek typingLike it or not, we spend our working lives in our own typing pool, without a Gal Friday to help us out. And with more reasons to type than ever email, instant messaging people are getting up to speed faster than previous generations.Typing.com surveyed and tested the typing speed of 980 workers who jobs revolved around the keyboard.Follow Ladders on FlipboardFollow Ladders magazines on Flipboard covering Happiness, Productivity, Job Satisfaction, Neuroscience, and moreWho types the most?Those in telecommunications and tech fields, in a tie. They spend 82.2% of their workweek typing. Theyre followed byFinance and insurance, spending 78.6% of their workweekInformation services and data processing, which spends 72.7% of their workweek typingThe scientific field, spending 70.6% of their workweek typingWhile legal eagles spend 61.6% of their workweek typing, they typed faster than any one in any field 60.6 words per minute. You know what they say in the law document everything.Typing is no longer a job for the low-paid, like the all-female secretarial typing pools of yore. According to this chart of the percentage of the workweek spent typing by annual income, employees earning $100,000 or more spent the most time over 87% of their workweek pecking at the keyboard. A small but measurable trend is evident type more, earn more. Or maybe its the other way around.You probably type faster than your parentsEach generation types faster and learns younger. Baby Boomers typically learned to type at age 17, while Gen X learned to type at age 14, and Millennials at age 11.While Baby Boomers typed the least, over 8,200 words every day, Gen Xers typed 10,209 an extra 24.3% more. percent more. Millennials typed 11,100% increase over Gen X.While your average female Baby Boomer types 43.5 words per minute, your average female Millennial types 55 words per minute.Typing and s tressTyping speed is also linked to stress. Have you ever rage-typed? Chances are you have. Employees who felt extremely relaxed typed at 51.1 words per minute, and those feeling slightly relaxed typed at 54.3 words per minute. However, those who felt extremely stressed typed at 55.4 words per minute.Typing speed is related to your mood in other areas of your work-life. Workers who took no lunch break, for example, typed a speedy 58.9 words per minute. Those who took a 21-30 minute break, however, typed a slower 52.6 words per minute.When youre off the clock, make sure to take care of your wrists and arms after all that typing here are some exercises to undo the damage of repetitive motion. And if you dare check out what typos mean about your mental health.