Booking agents 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, booking agents rate their career happiness 2.9 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 27% of careers.

To put this into perspective, we compared how happy booking agents 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
Consultant
3.2
$77k
Travel agent
3.0
$44k
Publicist
2.9
$63k
Customer success manager
2.9
$46k
Fundraiser
2.9
$61k
Property manager
2.9
$59k
Street vendor
2.9
$29k

So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:

  • Salary: Are booking agents happy with their salary?
  • Meaning: Do booking agents find their jobs meaningful?
  • Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as booking agents?
  • Work environment: How enjoyable are booking agent’s work environments?
  • Skills utilization: Are booking agents making the best use of their abilities?

Are booking agents happy with their salary?

Booking agents rated their satisfaction with their salaries 2.5/5. Most booking agents do not feel that their salaries adequately reflect their work, and are actively unhappy with their income.

We asked booking agents how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:

2.5 out of 5 stars

70 booking agents

5 Star
4%

4% of booking agents rated their compensation 5 stars

4 Star
16%

16% of booking agents rated their compensation 4 stars

3 Star
23%

23% of booking agents rated their compensation 3 stars

2 Star
33%

33% of booking agents rated their compensation 2 stars

1 Star
24%

24% of booking agents rated their compensation 1 stars

Do booking agents find their jobs meaningful?

On average, booking agents rate the meaningfulness of their work a 2.5/5. The majority of booking agents struggle to find any sort of meaning in their work, likely resulting in less satisfaction with the career overall.

We asked booking agents how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:

2.5 out of 5 stars

70 booking agents

5 Star
6%

6% of booking agents rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars

4 Star
17%

17% of booking agents rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars

3 Star
24%

24% of booking agents rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars

2 Star
23%

23% of booking agents rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars

1 Star
30%

30% of booking agents rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars

How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as booking agents?

Booking agents rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.3/5. The majority of booking agents find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.

We asked booking agents how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:

3.3 out of 5 stars

78 booking agents

5 Star
17%

17% of booking agents rated their career fit 5 stars

4 Star
36%

36% of booking agents rated their career fit 4 stars

3 Star
22%

22% of booking agents rated their career fit 3 stars

2 Star
14%

14% of booking agents rated their career fit 2 stars

1 Star
12%

12% of booking agents rated their career fit 1 stars

How enjoyable is a booking agent’s work environment?

As a whole, booking agents rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.3/5. Most of them tend to enjoy, or at least not be actively bothered by, their work environment.

We asked booking agents how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:

3.3 out of 5 stars

77 booking agents

5 Star
21%

21% of booking agents rated their work environment 5 stars

4 Star
27%

27% of booking agents rated their work environment 4 stars

3 Star
23%

23% of booking agents rated their work environment 3 stars

2 Star
19%

19% of booking agents rated their work environment 2 stars

1 Star
9%

9% of booking agents rated their work environment 1 stars

Are booking agents making the best use of their abilities?

Former booking agents on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 2.8/5. Booking agents tend to feel that they don’t manage to use their abilities to their fullest, when compared to other careers.

We asked booking agents how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:

2.8 out of 5 stars

75 booking agents

5 Star
13%

13% of booking agents rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars

4 Star
15%

15% of booking agents rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars

3 Star
32%

32% of booking agents rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars

2 Star
20%

20% of booking agents rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars

1 Star
20%

20% of booking agents rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars