I don't know the answer to your question because higher paying jobs are more stressful jobs. The only solution is to find something that most people find to be stressful but you don't.
Money is always a limiting factor for any public good, service, or business. The problem is that we can always do more if only we had more money or more time. Cutting hours is not about being fair or unfair. It's about how do people and businesses allocate resources given that everything is in finite quantities.