Survey Says … You're Happy
Respondents to the Third Annual Campus Safety Salary Survey indicate they continue to enjoy their careers. This second part of our two-part series reveals who is happy as well as the few who might be tempted to look elsewhere due to dissatisfaction.
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With Age Comes Employment Enjoyment
The older the respondent, the more likely he or she rates his or her job satisfaction level as “excellent” (57 percent), compared to only 8 percent of 20- to 30-year-olds. The percentage of respondents who said “excellent” jumped dramatically if they were older than 30. Thirty-two percent of respondents age 31-40 said their job satisfaction rate was “excellent,” and 60 percent rated it as “good.”
Respondents who work for K-12 school districts were the most likely to rate their job satisfaction as “excellent” (49 percent) or “poor” (6 percent). Slightly more than 50 percent of college/university respondents and 57 percent of hospital/GPO/health system respondents rated their happiness with their jobs as “good.” Respondents working for healthcare institutions were the least likely (1 percent) to indicate “poor.”
Respondents with campuses in rural areas with populations of less than 50,000, adjacent to a metropolitan area were the most likely to rate their job satisfaction level as “poor” (6 percent). Those in large metropolitan areas were the most likely to indicate “fair” (12 percent). Still, all regions indicated overall satisfaction with their jobs, with 86 percent or more per region indicating “good” or “excellent.”
The West Is Best When It Comes to Job Happiness
Respondents in the Northeast were the least likely (27 percent) to say their job satisfaction level was “excellent,” while those in the West were most likely (44 percent) to mark “excellent.”
Respondents working for campuses with more buildings are more likely to say their job satisfaction level is “excellent” (47 percent for campuses with 51-75 buildings; 53 percent for those with 76-100 buildings; and 43 percent for campuses with more than 100 buildings.) Nine percent of respondents with 50 or less buildings indicated “poor.”
Respondents on campuses with 15,001-20,000 students were most likely to rate their job satisfaction as “excellent” (62 percent), while respondents with less than 3,000 students were least likely to mark “excellent” on their survey (29 percent).
Hospital respondents with 401-600 beds indicated they were the happiest, with 43 percent rating their job satisfaction as “excellent.” Twenty-three percent of respondents with 200-400 beds and 24 percent of those with 601-800 beds marked “excellent” on their surveys.
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Robin Hattersley Gray is the executive editor of Campus Safety magazine. She can be reached at robin.gray@bobit.com.
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About the Author
Robin Hattersley, Editor-in-Chief
Robin has been covering the security and campus law enforcement industries since 1998 and is a specialist in school, university and hospital security, public safety and emergency management, as well as emerging technologies and systems integration. She joined CS in 2005 and has authored award-winning editorial on campus law enforcement and security funding, officer recruitment and retention, access control, IP video, network integration, event management, crime trends, the Clery Act, Title IX compliance, sexual assault, dating abuse, emergency communications, incident management software and more. Robin has been featured on national and local media outlets and was formerly associate editor for the trade publication Security Sales & Integration. She obtained her undergraduate degree in history from California State University, Long Beach.
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