Certified professional organizers rate their happiness above average.
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, certified professional organizers rate their career happiness 3.6 out of 5 stars which puts them in the top 23% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy certified professional organizers 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Life coach | 4.1 | $47k |
| Hand sewer | 3.9 | $30k |
| Seamstress | 3.7 | $26k |
| Certified professional organizer | 3.6 | $44k |
| Wedding planner | 3.6 | $46k |
| Event planner | 3.5 | $42k |
| Interior designer | 3.5 | $53k |
| Florist | 3.5 | $27k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are certified professional organizers happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do certified professional organizers find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as certified professional organizers?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are certified professional organizer’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are certified professional organizers making the best use of their abilities?
Are certified professional organizers happy with their salary?
Certified professional organizers rated their satisfaction with their salaries 3.3/5. Few are explicitly unhappy with their salaries, with most certified professional organizers having generally positive views of their salary.
We asked certified professional organizers how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
3.3 out of 5 stars
80 certified professional organizers
19% of certified professional organizers rated their compensation 5 stars
26% of certified professional organizers rated their compensation 4 stars
30% of certified professional organizers rated their compensation 3 stars
16% of certified professional organizers rated their compensation 2 stars
9% of certified professional organizers rated their compensation 1 stars
Do certified professional organizers find their jobs meaningful?
On average, certified professional organizers rate the meaningfulness of their work a 3.5/5. Unlike many careers, certified professional organizers have little difficulty finding meaning in their work, and it likely constitutes one of the main reasons people become certified professional organizers.
We asked certified professional organizers how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
3.5 out of 5 stars
81 certified professional organizers
32% of certified professional organizers rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
20% of certified professional organizers rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
22% of certified professional organizers rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
17% of certified professional organizers rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
9% of certified professional organizers rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as certified professional organizers?
Certified professional organizers rated their personality fit with their work an average of 4.2/5. The majority of certified professional organizers find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.
We asked certified professional organizers how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
4.2 out of 5 stars
89 certified professional organizers
52% of certified professional organizers rated their career fit 5 stars
28% of certified professional organizers rated their career fit 4 stars
13% of certified professional organizers rated their career fit 3 stars
4% of certified professional organizers rated their career fit 2 stars
2% of certified professional organizers rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is a certified professional organizer’s work environment?
As a whole, certified professional organizers rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.8/5. A solid majority of certified professional organizers enjoy their work environment, probably contributing to overall higher satisfaction with working as a certified professional organizer.
We asked certified professional organizers how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.8 out of 5 stars
89 certified professional organizers
36% of certified professional organizers rated their work environment 5 stars
28% of certified professional organizers rated their work environment 4 stars
22% of certified professional organizers rated their work environment 3 stars
11% of certified professional organizers rated their work environment 2 stars
2% of certified professional organizers rated their work environment 1 stars
Are certified professional organizers making the best use of their abilities?
Former certified professional organizers on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 3.7/5. Most certified professional organizers surveyed find that they manage to use their abilities to their fullest as a certified professional organizer, which helps contribute to higher career satisfaction in the long term.
We asked certified professional organizers how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
3.7 out of 5 stars
88 certified professional organizers
30% of certified professional organizers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
33% of certified professional organizers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
20% of certified professional organizers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
11% of certified professional organizers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
6% of certified professional organizers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars