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Isn’t it fantastic to be compensated for something you already do every night? In 2025, there is a tremendous assortment of jobs that are open to you — from unusual careers to experimental roles that might surprise you. These jobs do not simply allow for hours snoozing away – they include testing comfort, participating in research, or on‐call shifts overnight! Regardless of whether you are interested in a playful side gig, looking for flexible capabilities, or would like to learn more about your hobby and be compensated, here are some valid jobs where sleep pays and creativity meets opportunity in the world’s weirdest professions of 2025.
Mattress & Product Tester
Companies that produce mattresses, pillows, or sleep gadgets sometimes employ individuals to sleep on their products in order to evaluate their comfort and offer feedback. Some lists made for 2025 suggest product testers may earn anything from a small amount of pay to several hundred dollars (or similar incentives) for testing new beds or sleep systems. Generally, the job entails sleeping on the product for a few nights and then completing surveys on comfort level, firmness, temperature control, and general quality of sleep. It is a fun position to hold if you enjoy sleeping (and can observe).
Sleep Study Participant & Research Roles
Academic labs, hospitals, and sleep technology companies engage volunteers to come in to sleep in a controlled environment, while researchers observe patterns, disorders, or test new interventions. For instance, some studies provide participants with a sleep payment that can range from around $100 to a few hundred, depending on the complexity of the study, just to sleep. Those roles may have you hard-wired to monitors or even sleeping while trying out sleep tech, as the role is more of a job than sleeping a few hours, but if you’re curious about sleep science, you’re primed.
Hotel, Airline & Overnight Review Roles
There exist specialised jobs in which employers will pay you to sleep in a hotel room (or airline sleep seat), then report how restful your sleep was. For example, some hotel chains have employed sleep testers who stay the night to rate things like the bed, noise levels, and room ambience. Airlines and sleep-pod companies might hire testers to try state-of-the-art sleeping arrangements in first-class or evaluate napping pods that are being prototyped. These jobs are often less conventional/substantive jobs and more contract/gig work, but still real jobs with the task being sleep.
Overnight Care & On-call Roles
The other option is to take positions where you are “on-call” overnight and, if you so desire, can sleep while an elderly resident, pet, or facility sleeps. You still may need to wake upon alert, though. Job boards consider these overnight caregivers or live-in sitters, and provide examples of earning money in a position while having long stretches of rest and/or sleep built into your shift. A caveat is, however, that this is not a full-on job of just “sleeping for pay”, but is quite different compared to your typical working job roles.
Conclusion & Takeaway
So yes, there are real jobs in 2025 where someone can legitimately get paid to sleep (or get paid to include sleep as part of the job). Everything from testing mattresses to participating in a sleep study, to being an overnight sitter, there are options based on different interests (and sleeping habits). If you are going to look toward one of these roles: scan the fine print (are you really getting paid to sleep, or are you just on call?), make sure you think the total pay equals a fair compensation for the time you are doing the work, and then finally think about whether the sleep hours can fit into your lifestyle to have as an overnight worker (overnight can have an unknown quality). If everything checks out, you could just get paid to do what many of us love to do – sleep. Or, if you want to see if any come open, I can help you look for active postings.
