Command and control center specialists are below average when it comes to happiness.
At CareerExplorer, we conduct an ongoing survey with millions of people and ask them how satisfied they are with their careers. As it turns out, command and control center specialists rate their career happiness 2.9 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 24% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy command and control center specialists are to similar careers in the industry. Take a look at the results below:
Salaries and satisfaction ratings in similar careers
| Career | Satisfaction | Avg Salary |
|---|---|---|
| Construction manager | 3.0 | $65k |
| Aircraft mechanic | 3.0 | $45k |
| Information security analyst | 2.9 | $77k |
| Sailor | 2.9 | $42k |
| Customer success manager | 2.9 | $70k |
| Command and control center specialist | 2.9 | $37k |
| Industrial engineer | 2.9 | $61k |
| Data analyst | 2.9 | $70k |
| Operations research analyst | 2.9 | $65k |
| Artillery crew member | 2.8 | $35k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are command and control center specialists happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do command and control center specialists find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as command and control center specialists?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are command and control center specialist’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are command and control center specialists making the best use of their abilities?
Are command and control center specialists happy with their salary?
Command and control center specialists rated their satisfaction with their salaries 3.2/5. Few are explicitly unhappy with their salaries, with most command and control center specialists having generally positive views of their salary.
We asked command and control center specialists how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
3.2 out of 5 stars
76 command and control center specialists
14% of command and control center specialists rated their compensation 5 stars
26% of command and control center specialists rated their compensation 4 stars
30% of command and control center specialists rated their compensation 3 stars
18% of command and control center specialists rated their compensation 2 stars
11% of command and control center specialists rated their compensation 1 stars
Do command and control center specialists find their jobs meaningful?
On average, command and control center specialists rate the meaningfulness of their work a 2.9/5. While most command and control center specialists aren’t very fulfilled by their work, some people may still manage to find meaning in it.
We asked command and control center specialists how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
2.9 out of 5 stars
76 command and control center specialists
13% of command and control center specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
24% of command and control center specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
21% of command and control center specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
26% of command and control center specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
16% of command and control center specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as command and control center specialists?
Command and control center specialists rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.7/5. The majority of command and control center specialists find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.
We asked command and control center specialists how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.7 out of 5 stars
77 command and control center specialists
25% of command and control center specialists rated their career fit 5 stars
42% of command and control center specialists rated their career fit 4 stars
17% of command and control center specialists rated their career fit 3 stars
13% of command and control center specialists rated their career fit 2 stars
4% of command and control center specialists rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is a command and control center specialist’s work environment?
As a whole, command and control center specialists rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.5/5. A solid majority of command and control center specialists enjoy their work environment, probably contributing to overall higher satisfaction with working as a command and control center specialist.
We asked command and control center specialists how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.5 out of 5 stars
76 command and control center specialists
17% of command and control center specialists rated their work environment 5 stars
43% of command and control center specialists rated their work environment 4 stars
18% of command and control center specialists rated their work environment 3 stars
8% of command and control center specialists rated their work environment 2 stars
13% of command and control center specialists rated their work environment 1 stars
Are command and control center specialists making the best use of their abilities?
Former command and control center specialists on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 3.0/5. Most command and control center specialists are satisfied with how well their abilities are skills are made of use.
We asked command and control center specialists how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
3.0 out of 5 stars
78 command and control center specialists
19% of command and control center specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
22% of command and control center specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
23% of command and control center specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
18% of command and control center specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
18% of command and control center specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars