Food safety and quality technicians are below average when it comes to happiness.
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, food safety and quality technicians rate their career happiness 2.9 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 21% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy food safety and quality technicians 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Occupational health specialist | 2.9 | $73k |
| Registered dietitian nutritionist | 2.9 | $61k |
| Agricultural and food science technician | 2.9 | $41k |
| Agricultural inspector | 2.9 | $45k |
| Environmental technician | 2.9 | $46k |
| Food safety and quality technician | 2.9 | $36k |
| Environmental consultant | 2.8 | $71k |
| Dietetic technician | 2.6 | $29k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are food safety and quality technicians happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do food safety and quality technicians find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as food safety and quality technicians?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are food safety and quality technician’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are food safety and quality technicians making the best use of their abilities?
Are food safety and quality technicians happy with their salary?
Food safety and quality technicians rated their satisfaction with their salaries 2.9/5. Few are explicitly unhappy with their salaries, with most food safety and quality technicians having generally positive views of their salary.
We asked food safety and quality technicians how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
2.9 out of 5 stars
86 food safety and quality technicians
8% of food safety and quality technicians rated their compensation 5 stars
31% of food safety and quality technicians rated their compensation 4 stars
23% of food safety and quality technicians rated their compensation 3 stars
21% of food safety and quality technicians rated their compensation 2 stars
16% of food safety and quality technicians rated their compensation 1 stars
Do food safety and quality technicians find their jobs meaningful?
On average, food safety and quality technicians rate the meaningfulness of their work a 2.5/5. The majority of food safety and quality technicians struggle to find any sort of meaning in their work, likely resulting in less satisfaction with the career overall.
We asked food safety and quality technicians how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
2.5 out of 5 stars
88 food safety and quality technicians
7% of food safety and quality technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
17% of food safety and quality technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
25% of food safety and quality technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
25% of food safety and quality technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
26% of food safety and quality technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as food safety and quality technicians?
Food safety and quality technicians rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.6/5. The majority of food safety and quality technicians find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.
We asked food safety and quality technicians how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.6 out of 5 stars
90 food safety and quality technicians
22% of food safety and quality technicians rated their career fit 5 stars
37% of food safety and quality technicians rated their career fit 4 stars
29% of food safety and quality technicians rated their career fit 3 stars
7% of food safety and quality technicians rated their career fit 2 stars
6% of food safety and quality technicians rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is a food safety and quality technician’s work environment?
As a whole, food safety and quality technicians rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.2/5. Most of them tend to enjoy, or at least not be actively bothered by, their work environment.
We asked food safety and quality technicians how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.2 out of 5 stars
91 food safety and quality technicians
15% of food safety and quality technicians rated their work environment 5 stars
27% of food safety and quality technicians rated their work environment 4 stars
31% of food safety and quality technicians rated their work environment 3 stars
16% of food safety and quality technicians rated their work environment 2 stars
10% of food safety and quality technicians rated their work environment 1 stars
Are food safety and quality technicians making the best use of their abilities?
Former food safety and quality technicians on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 2.8/5. Food safety and quality technicians tend to feel that they don’t manage to use their abilities to their fullest, when compared to other careers.
We asked food safety and quality technicians how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
2.8 out of 5 stars
90 food safety and quality technicians
13% of food safety and quality technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
18% of food safety and quality technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
26% of food safety and quality technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
19% of food safety and quality technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
24% of food safety and quality technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars