Food production supervisors 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, food production supervisors rate their career happiness 2.9 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 21% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy food production supervisors 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Quarry rock splitter | 2.9 | $47k |
| Cement mason | 2.9 | $18k |
| Lodging manager | 2.9 | $47k |
| Street vendor | 2.9 | $4k |
| Food quality assurance technician | 2.9 | $36k |
| Industrial production manager | 2.8 | $59k |
| Concierge | 2.8 | $14k |
| Highway maintenance worker | 2.8 | $39k |
| Plumber | 2.8 | $24k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are food production supervisors happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do food production supervisors find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as food production supervisors?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are food production supervisor’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are food production supervisors making the best use of their abilities?
Are food production supervisors happy with their salary?
Food production supervisors rated their satisfaction with their salaries 3.2/5. Few are explicitly unhappy with their salaries, with most food production supervisors having generally positive views of their salary.
We asked food production supervisors how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
3.2 out of 5 stars
72 food production supervisors
8% of food production supervisors rated their compensation 5 stars
31% of food production supervisors rated their compensation 4 stars
39% of food production supervisors rated their compensation 3 stars
14% of food production supervisors rated their compensation 2 stars
8% of food production supervisors rated their compensation 1 stars
Do food production supervisors find their jobs meaningful?
On average, food production supervisors rate the meaningfulness of their work a 2.6/5. The majority of food production supervisors struggle to find any sort of meaning in their work, likely resulting in less satisfaction with the career overall.
We asked food production supervisors how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
2.6 out of 5 stars
72 food production supervisors
8% of food production supervisors rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
18% of food production supervisors rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
19% of food production supervisors rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
36% of food production supervisors rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
18% of food production supervisors rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as food production supervisors?
Food production supervisors rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.4/5. The majority of food production supervisors don’t see personality fit as a hinderence in their career.
We asked food production supervisors how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.4 out of 5 stars
73 food production supervisors
19% of food production supervisors rated their career fit 5 stars
30% of food production supervisors rated their career fit 4 stars
30% of food production supervisors rated their career fit 3 stars
12% of food production supervisors rated their career fit 2 stars
8% of food production supervisors rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is a food production supervisor’s work environment?
As a whole, food production supervisors rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.1/5. Most of them tend to enjoy, or at least not be actively bothered by, their work environment.
We asked food production supervisors how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.1 out of 5 stars
73 food production supervisors
11% of food production supervisors rated their work environment 5 stars
30% of food production supervisors rated their work environment 4 stars
23% of food production supervisors rated their work environment 3 stars
26% of food production supervisors rated their work environment 2 stars
10% of food production supervisors rated their work environment 1 stars
Are food production supervisors making the best use of their abilities?
Former food production supervisors on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 2.9/5. Food production supervisors tend to feel that they don’t manage to use their abilities to their fullest, when compared to other careers.
We asked food production supervisors how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
2.9 out of 5 stars
74 food production supervisors
16% of food production supervisors rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
14% of food production supervisors rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
26% of food production supervisors rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
31% of food production supervisors rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
14% of food production supervisors rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars