Food quality assurance technicians 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 quality assurance technicians 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 quality assurance technicians 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Food science technologist | 3.1 | $73k |
| Registered dietitian | 2.9 | $53k |
| Agricultural and food science technician | 2.9 | $41k |
| Agricultural inspector | 2.9 | $11k |
| Food quality assurance technician | 2.9 | $36k |
| Dietetic technician | 2.6 | $32k |
| Butcher | 2.6 | $13k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are food quality assurance technicians happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do food quality assurance technicians find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as food quality assurance technicians?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are food quality assurance technician’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are food quality assurance technicians making the best use of their abilities?
Are food quality assurance technicians happy with their salary?
Food quality assurance technicians rated their satisfaction with their salaries 2.9/5. Few are explicitly unhappy with their salaries, with most food quality assurance technicians having generally positive views of their salary.
We asked food quality assurance technicians how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
2.9 out of 5 stars
85 food quality assurance technicians
8% of food quality assurance technicians rated their compensation 5 stars
32% of food quality assurance technicians rated their compensation 4 stars
22% of food quality assurance technicians rated their compensation 3 stars
21% of food quality assurance technicians rated their compensation 2 stars
16% of food quality assurance technicians rated their compensation 1 stars
Do food quality assurance technicians find their jobs meaningful?
On average, food quality assurance technicians rate the meaningfulness of their work a 2.5/5. The majority of food quality assurance technicians struggle to find any sort of meaning in their work, likely resulting in less satisfaction with the career overall.
We asked food quality assurance technicians how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
2.5 out of 5 stars
87 food quality assurance technicians
7% of food quality assurance technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
16% of food quality assurance technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
25% of food quality assurance technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
25% of food quality assurance technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
26% of food quality assurance technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as food quality assurance technicians?
Food quality assurance technicians rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.6/5. The majority of food quality assurance technicians find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.
We asked food quality assurance technicians how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.6 out of 5 stars
89 food quality assurance technicians
22% of food quality assurance technicians rated their career fit 5 stars
36% of food quality assurance technicians rated their career fit 4 stars
29% of food quality assurance technicians rated their career fit 3 stars
7% of food quality assurance technicians rated their career fit 2 stars
6% of food quality assurance technicians rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is a food quality assurance technician’s work environment?
As a whole, food quality assurance technicians rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.2/5. Most of them tend to enjoy, or at least not be actively bothered by, their work environment.
We asked food quality assurance technicians how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.2 out of 5 stars
90 food quality assurance technicians
16% of food quality assurance technicians rated their work environment 5 stars
27% of food quality assurance technicians rated their work environment 4 stars
31% of food quality assurance technicians rated their work environment 3 stars
17% of food quality assurance technicians rated their work environment 2 stars
10% of food quality assurance technicians rated their work environment 1 stars
Are food quality assurance technicians making the best use of their abilities?
Former food quality assurance technicians on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 2.8/5. Food quality assurance technicians tend to feel that they don’t manage to use their abilities to their fullest, when compared to other careers.
We asked food quality assurance technicians how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
2.8 out of 5 stars
89 food quality assurance technicians
13% of food quality assurance technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
18% of food quality assurance technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
26% of food quality assurance technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
18% of food quality assurance technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
25% of food quality assurance technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars