# Voluntary sector workers more satisfied than those in other sectors

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/12/15/voluntary-sector-workers-more-satisfied-those-other-sectors/
- Published: 2000-12-15T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Voluntary sector workers are more satisfied in their jobs than works in the private
and public sectors, according to new research.
New research from Warwick University
suggests that voluntary sector workers get more job satisfaction than those in the
private and public sectors. The survey, ‘What has been happening to job satisfaction
in Britain?’ found that charity workers score an average of 5.72 out of seven for
job satisfaction, against 5.35 in the private sector and 5.45 in the public sector.

Levels of job satisfaction in the public sector have fallen steeply in the 1990s.

Women are more satisfied with their jobs than men, and black workers are less satisfied
than white workers. Graduates are often among the least satisfied. The older the
worker, the more likely s/he is to achieve job satisfaction, with a major improvement
after the age of 55.

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You can read the report by Andrew Oswald, Professor of Economics, and Jonathan Gardner,
Research Fellow, at the University of Warwick in Adobe Acrobat/PDF.

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