July 17, 2017
This article first appeared in Inside INdiana Business’ “Perspectives”
The good news? Overall U.S. employee job satisfaction continues to rank highly at 89 percent. The not-so-good news? There’s a wide gap between those who rate satisfaction with compensation as very important (61 percent) and those who actually feel very satisfied with their current level of compensation (26 percent). This 35 percentage-point difference regarding compensation was the largest gap noted in the 2016 Employee Job Satisfaction and Engagement Survey from the Society for Human Resource Management.