Product safety engineers are one of the least happy careers in the United States.
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, product safety engineers rate their career happiness 2.7 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 13% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy product safety engineers 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pipelayer | 2.8 | $50k |
| Electronic assembler | 2.8 | $28k |
| Quality control inspector | 2.8 | $39k |
| Rail transportation worker | 2.8 | $60k |
| Transportation planner | 2.8 | $62k |
| Product safety engineer | 2.7 | $99k |
| Logistician | 2.7 | $45k |
| Meter reader | 2.7 | $44k |
| Tool and die maker | 2.7 | $37k |
| Mining machine operator | 2.7 | $62k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are product safety engineers happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do product safety engineers find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as product safety engineers?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are product safety engineer’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are product safety engineers making the best use of their abilities?
Are product safety engineers happy with their salary?
Product safety engineers rated their satisfaction with their salaries 3.1/5. Product safety engineers tend to be quite unhappy with their salary, with very few reporting satisfaction with their pay.
We asked product safety engineers how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
3.1 out of 5 stars
13 product safety engineers
8% of product safety engineers rated their compensation 5 stars
23% of product safety engineers rated their compensation 4 stars
38% of product safety engineers rated their compensation 3 stars
23% of product safety engineers rated their compensation 2 stars
8% of product safety engineers rated their compensation 1 stars
Do product safety engineers find their jobs meaningful?
On average, product safety engineers rate the meaningfulness of their work a 2.3/5. While most product safety engineers aren’t very fulfilled by their work, some people may still manage to find meaning in it.
We asked product safety engineers how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
2.3 out of 5 stars
14 product safety engineers
14% of product safety engineers rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
21% of product safety engineers rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
29% of product safety engineers rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
36% of product safety engineers rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as product safety engineers?
Product safety engineers rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.5/5. Few product safety engineers seem to find that their personalities work mesh well with their career.
We asked product safety engineers how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.5 out of 5 stars
14 product safety engineers
7% of product safety engineers rated their career fit 5 stars
43% of product safety engineers rated their career fit 4 stars
36% of product safety engineers rated their career fit 3 stars
14% of product safety engineers rated their career fit 2 stars
How enjoyable is a product safety engineer’s work environment?
As a whole, product safety engineers rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.1/5. Most of them tend to enjoy, or at least not be actively bothered by, their work environment.
We asked product safety engineers how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.1 out of 5 stars
14 product safety engineers
7% of product safety engineers rated their work environment 5 stars
29% of product safety engineers rated their work environment 4 stars
36% of product safety engineers rated their work environment 3 stars
14% of product safety engineers rated their work environment 2 stars
14% of product safety engineers rated their work environment 1 stars
Are product safety engineers making the best use of their abilities?
Former product safety engineers on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 3.0/5. Most product safety engineers surveyed find that they manage to use their abilities to their fullest as a product safety engineer, which helps contribute to higher career satisfaction in the long term.
We asked product safety engineers how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
3.0 out of 5 stars
14 product safety engineers
36% of product safety engineers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
36% of product safety engineers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
21% of product safety engineers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
7% of product safety engineers rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars