25th Annual Salary & Job Satisfaction Survey: The Right Fit Improves Satisfaction
How do you find employees who will be satisfied and loyal? One key-provide balance.
According to Food Engineering's 2005 Salary and Job Satisfaction Survey, it seems that some people in the food and beverage industry feel like the coffee stirrer. They are bent by increasing workloads that often crossover into areas outside of their interest or skill sets; workloads driven by demanding production goals. They are bent but many remain unbroken. In fact, satisfaction again hit the two-thirds mark this year, with 66 percent of respondents reporting they are more than somewhat satisfied with their jobs and salaries. This is a far cry from 2000, when total satisfaction topped out at 78 percent. For the last four years, the satisfaction rate has hovered around 65 percent with about 35 percent of respondents reporting they are dissatisfied or very dissatisfied, which begs the question, why? If one-third of respondents are consistently dissatisfied, what do they want?