{"id":3722,"date":"2018-04-06T20:32:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3722"},"modified":"2018-04-06T20:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:33:06","slug":"tell-us-salary-aside-whats-most-important-to-you-in-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/tell-us-salary-aside-whats-most-important-to-you-in-a-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Us: Salary Aside, What&#8217;s Most Important to You in a Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a multitude of things that keep people happy at work, but right up at the top is work-life balance.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-six percent of people said work-life balance is what they care about most in a job, not including salary, according to the latest reading of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/100-besides-your-salary-what-s-most-important-to-you-about-work\">ongoing query<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>. More than 10,000 people across the tech sector participated in the query.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3723 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/worklife.jpg\" alt=\"worklife\" width=\"698\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/worklife-300x80.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/worklife.jpg 698w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><b>Men vs. women<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Men and women were similar in their responses, though women chose &#8220;health care opportunities&#8221; slightly more (16% vs. 11% of men) and &#8220;career advancement opportunities&#8221; slightly less (20% vs. 27% of men).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3724 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/worklife2.jpg\" alt=\"worklife2\" width=\"547\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/worklife2-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/worklife2.jpg 547w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 547px) 85vw, 547px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Chicago is all about it<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b>People in every city ranked &#8220;work-life balance&#8221; at the top, though Chicagoans were really all about it: 43% of respondents from Chi-town were in favor of work-life balance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Chicago<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3725 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/CHICAGOworklife.jpg\" alt=\"CHICAGOworklife\" width=\"338\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/CHICAGOworklife-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2018\/04\/CHICAGOworklife.jpg 338w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 85vw, 338px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The latest data is as of April 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a multitude of things that keep people happy at work, but right up at the top is work-life balance. Thirty-six percent of people said work-life balance is what they care about most in a job, not including salary, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. More than 10,000 people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/tell-us-salary-aside-whats-most-important-to-you-in-a-job\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,8],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3726,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3722\/revisions\/3726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}