Health services managers 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, health services managers rate their career happiness 3.0 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 33% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy health services managers 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prosthodontist | 3.1 | $234k |
| Dental hygienist | 3.1 | $75k |
| Human resources manager | 3.1 | $65k |
| Dentist | 3.0 | $128k |
| Physician assistant | 3.0 | $111k |
| Health services manager | 3.0 | $57k |
| Surgical technologist | 3.0 | $30k |
| Dental assistant | 3.0 | $18k |
| Medical transcriptionist | 3.0 | $18k |
| Diagnostic medical sonographer | 3.0 | $43k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are health services managers happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do health services managers find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as health services managers?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are health services manager’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are health services managers making the best use of their abilities?
Are health services managers happy with their salary?
Health services managers rated their satisfaction with their salaries 3.1/5. Few are explicitly unhappy with their salaries, with most health services managers having generally positive views of their salary.
We asked health services managers how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
3.1 out of 5 stars
367 health services managers
16% of health services managers rated their compensation 5 stars
27% of health services managers rated their compensation 4 stars
25% of health services managers rated their compensation 3 stars
17% of health services managers rated their compensation 2 stars
14% of health services managers rated their compensation 1 stars
Do health services managers find their jobs meaningful?
On average, health services managers rate the meaningfulness of their work a 3.1/5. Most tend to be satisified with the level of meaning they find in their careers.
We asked health services managers how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
3.1 out of 5 stars
369 health services managers
18% of health services managers rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
24% of health services managers rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
23% of health services managers rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
18% of health services managers rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
17% of health services managers rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as health services managers?
Health services managers rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.9/5. The majority of health services managers find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.
We asked health services managers how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.9 out of 5 stars
400 health services managers
30% of health services managers rated their career fit 5 stars
40% of health services managers rated their career fit 4 stars
19% of health services managers rated their career fit 3 stars
7% of health services managers rated their career fit 2 stars
4% of health services managers rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is a health services manager’s work environment?
As a whole, health services managers rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.5/5. A solid majority of health services managers enjoy their work environment, probably contributing to overall higher satisfaction with working as a health services manager.
We asked health services managers how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.5 out of 5 stars
394 health services managers
18% of health services managers rated their work environment 5 stars
36% of health services managers rated their work environment 4 stars
27% of health services managers rated their work environment 3 stars
13% of health services managers rated their work environment 2 stars
5% of health services managers rated their work environment 1 stars
Are health services managers making the best use of their abilities?
Former health services managers on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 3.1/5. Most health services managers are satisfied with how well their abilities are skills are made of use.
We asked health services managers how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
3.1 out of 5 stars
394 health services managers
16% of health services managers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
25% of health services managers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
22% of health services managers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
23% of health services managers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
13% of health services managers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars