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What percentage of employed Americans are very satisfied with their job?
44.6% of employed Americans are very satisfied with their job - about 45 in every 100, or 4 in 10. That is the figure published by the General Social Survey for 2024.
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Where this number comes from
- Survey
- General Social Survey
- What it measured
- GSS 2024 item SATJOB (“Work satisfaction”), counting responses 1=very satisfied. Computed from NORC's public-use microdata with the survey weight WTSSNRPS and a Taylor-linearised standard error over the published design variables VSTRAT and VPSU; unweighted n = 2,244.
- Population
- employed U.S. adults
- Year
- 2024
- 95% confidence interval
- 41.81% to 47.39% (derived from the published standard error)
NORC at the University of Chicago; public-use microdata, free for research and educational use. Percentages computed here, with attribution.. See the source data
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