Printing workers are one of the least happy careers in the United States.
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, printing workers rate their career happiness 2.8 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 14% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy printing workers 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amusement attendant | 3.0 | $6k |
| Furniture finisher | 3.0 | $9k |
| Sewing machine operator | 3.0 | $3k |
| Drafter | 2.9 | $45k |
| Barista | 2.9 | $18k |
| Printing worker | 2.8 | $18k |
| Tile and marble setter | 2.8 | $24k |
| Delivery service driver | 2.6 | $15k |
| Glazier | 2.6 | $29k |
| Food server | 2.4 | $5k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are printing workers happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do printing workers find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as printing workers?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are printing worker’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are printing workers making the best use of their abilities?
Are printing workers happy with their salary?
Printing workers rated their satisfaction with their salaries 2.7/5. Printing workers tend to be quite unhappy with their salary, with very few reporting satisfaction with their pay.
We asked printing workers how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
2.7 out of 5 stars
436 printing workers
6% of printing workers rated their compensation 5 stars
20% of printing workers rated their compensation 4 stars
28% of printing workers rated their compensation 3 stars
27% of printing workers rated their compensation 2 stars
19% of printing workers rated their compensation 1 stars
Do printing workers find their jobs meaningful?
On average, printing workers rate the meaningfulness of their work a 2.3/5. The majority of printing workers struggle to find any sort of meaning in their work, likely resulting in less satisfaction with the career overall.
We asked printing workers how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
2.3 out of 5 stars
437 printing workers
5% of printing workers rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
10% of printing workers rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
23% of printing workers rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
30% of printing workers rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
32% of printing workers rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as printing workers?
Printing workers rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.6/5. The majority of printing workers find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.
We asked printing workers how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.6 out of 5 stars
475 printing workers
26% of printing workers rated their career fit 5 stars
34% of printing workers rated their career fit 4 stars
25% of printing workers rated their career fit 3 stars
10% of printing workers rated their career fit 2 stars
5% of printing workers rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is a printing worker’s work environment?
As a whole, printing workers 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 printing workers how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.2 out of 5 stars
474 printing workers
17% of printing workers rated their work environment 5 stars
31% of printing workers rated their work environment 4 stars
24% of printing workers rated their work environment 3 stars
17% of printing workers rated their work environment 2 stars
11% of printing workers rated their work environment 1 stars
Are printing workers making the best use of their abilities?
Former printing workers on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 2.7/5. Printing workers tend to feel that they don’t manage to use their abilities to their fullest, when compared to other careers.
We asked printing workers how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
2.7 out of 5 stars
473 printing workers
12% of printing workers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
19% of printing workers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
22% of printing workers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
24% of printing workers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
23% of printing workers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars