OBJECTIVE: to evaluate affective and emotional temperaments in workers of several areas. METHODS: 3805 subjects (75,5% female, mean 32.4±9.8 ys) of 23 professional areas answered a web-survey with the Combined Emotional and Affective Temperament Scale (CEATS). RESULTS: Educational level was correlated with drive and control, was lower in depressives and apathetic and higher in euthymics and hyperthymics. Fear was low in tourism and high in computing; drive was low in unemployed and housewives and high in fitness, religion, arts and communications; control was low in unemployed, arts, esthetics and high in religion, fitness and tourism; anger was low in religion and high in unemployed. For affective temperament scores: Depressive was high in farming, unemployed, human studies, housewives and low in fitness and tourism; Anxious was high in unemployed and repairments and low in fitness, health care and administration; Cyclothymic was low in health care, fitness, religion and high in unemployed, esthetics and arts. Apathetic was high in unemployed and low in fitness and tourism; Euthymic score was high in religion, fitness and low in human studies, unemployed and arts; Irritable was high in esthetics, unemployed and law e low in religion, fitness and health care; Labile was higher in esthetics and unemployed and lower in religion and fitness; Disinhibited was high in arts, unemployed, esthetics and communication and low in religion and engineering. Hyperthymic was low in unemployed, farming and human studies and high in religion, fitness and tourism. CONCLUSION: Professions are associated with distinct emotional and affective profiles.