Disaster recovery specialists are about average in terms of 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, disaster recovery specialists rate their career happiness 3.3 out of 5 stars which puts them in the top 44% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy disaster recovery 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Broadcast engineer | 3.3 | $45k |
| Computer and information research scientist | 3.3 | $118k |
| Data scientist | 3.3 | $120k |
| Non-Destructive testing specialist | 3.3 | $63k |
| Disaster recovery specialist | 3.3 | $41k |
| Geospatial information scientist | 3.3 | $90k |
| Computer repair technician | 3.3 | $38k |
| Geodesist | 3.3 | $69k |
| Bioinformatics scientist | 3.2 | $85k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are disaster recovery specialists happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do disaster recovery specialists find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as disaster recovery specialists?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are disaster recovery specialist’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are disaster recovery specialists making the best use of their abilities?
Are disaster recovery specialists happy with their salary?
Disaster recovery specialists rated their satisfaction with their salaries 3.1/5. Disaster recovery specialists tend to be quite unhappy with their salary, with very few reporting satisfaction with their pay.
We asked disaster recovery specialists how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
3.1 out of 5 stars
56 disaster recovery specialists
18% of disaster recovery specialists rated their compensation 5 stars
16% of disaster recovery specialists rated their compensation 4 stars
32% of disaster recovery specialists rated their compensation 3 stars
27% of disaster recovery specialists rated their compensation 2 stars
7% of disaster recovery specialists rated their compensation 1 stars
Do disaster recovery specialists find their jobs meaningful?
On average, disaster recovery specialists rate the meaningfulness of their work a 3.5/5. Unlike many careers, disaster recovery specialists have little difficulty finding meaning in their work, and it likely constitutes one of the main reasons people become disaster recovery specialists.
We asked disaster recovery specialists how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
3.5 out of 5 stars
56 disaster recovery specialists
30% of disaster recovery specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
30% of disaster recovery specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
18% of disaster recovery specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
9% of disaster recovery specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
13% of disaster recovery specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as disaster recovery specialists?
Disaster recovery specialists rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.9/5. The majority of disaster recovery specialists find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.
We asked disaster recovery specialists how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.9 out of 5 stars
55 disaster recovery specialists
27% of disaster recovery specialists rated their career fit 5 stars
49% of disaster recovery specialists rated their career fit 4 stars
15% of disaster recovery specialists rated their career fit 3 stars
5% of disaster recovery specialists rated their career fit 2 stars
4% of disaster recovery specialists rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is a disaster recovery specialist’s work environment?
As a whole, disaster recovery specialists rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.7/5. A solid majority of disaster recovery specialists enjoy their work environment, probably contributing to overall higher satisfaction with working as a disaster recovery specialist.
We asked disaster recovery specialists how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.7 out of 5 stars
55 disaster recovery specialists
33% of disaster recovery specialists rated their work environment 5 stars
31% of disaster recovery specialists rated their work environment 4 stars
22% of disaster recovery specialists rated their work environment 3 stars
9% of disaster recovery specialists rated their work environment 2 stars
5% of disaster recovery specialists rated their work environment 1 stars
Are disaster recovery specialists making the best use of their abilities?
Former disaster recovery specialists on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 3.4/5. Most disaster recovery specialists surveyed find that they manage to use their abilities to their fullest as a disaster recovery specialist, which helps contribute to higher career satisfaction in the long term.
We asked disaster recovery specialists how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
3.4 out of 5 stars
56 disaster recovery specialists
30% of disaster recovery specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
21% of disaster recovery specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
20% of disaster recovery specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
18% of disaster recovery specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
11% of disaster recovery specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars