Imagine you had your boss’s job. What’s the first thing you’d do: Create an entirely new and improved product? Give everyone a raise?
A Comparably query of more than 10,000 employees across the tech industry reveals the number 1 answer is improve “vision and strategy” (33%).
Room for improvement
After “vision and strategy,” the next most popular response was “improve office culture” (23%), followed by and “increase employee pay” (22%). The lowest priorities were “make a better product” (16%), and “cut expenses” (6%).
Admin, customer support choose differently
Workers in administrative roles and customer support were the only people who ranked “increase employee pay” above improving strategy and vision. Workers in finance were unique in that they ranked “vision and strategy” just as importantly as “increase employee pay” and “improve office culture.”
Administrative:
Customer Support:
Finance:
The youngest workers had their eye on pay
The only age group that didn’t rank vision and strategy as No. 1 was the 18 to 25 set — the youngest workers surveyed. Twenty-seven percent of them chose “increase employee pay,” slightly more than the 24% who chose “vision and strategy.”
Portland had the highest percentage of people who chose vision and strategy.
At 37%, the city of Portland, Ore., had the highest percentage of respondents who chose “vision and strategy.” Boston and Chicago were close behind, each with 35% of the vote.
Portland:
Boston:
Chicago:
The latest reading of Comparably’s ongoing query is as of Nov. 8.
