Stress is a common problem in today's society. Even though stress has been recognized as a problem in the workplace, the identification of specific work-related stress producers, coping mechanisms, and symptoms has been somewhat neglected. The purpose of this study was to analyze levels and areas of stress in selected service professions and to establish norms of stress for these professions using the Tennessee Stress Scale-R (TSS-R), a work-related stress inventory for professionals. The TSS-R was administered to professionals (N=800) in education, medicine, government service, industry, business, and counseling. Results showed education professionals were significantly higher than business and government service professionals on producers and symptoms subscales. Females scored higher than males on producers and symptoms. There was a significant negative correlation between age and coping. The number of children a person had was negatively correlated with producers and copers. People with more children had lower scores on producers and copers subscales. Regional differences emerged with scores in the Western region of the country being significantly lower than scores in the East. (The TSS-R is included.) (Author/ABL)