{"id":3828,"date":"2018-04-23T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2019-01-16T23:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T23:56:02","slug":"work-life-balance-is-a-struggle-at-any-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/work-life-balance-is-a-struggle-at-any-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Snapshot: Work-Life Balance Is a Struggle at Any Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

For today\u2019s job seekers, work-life balance is the dream. Studies<\/a> have shown that millennials value work-life balance more than all other job characteristics, though it\u2019s not just millennials thinking this way \u2013 research has also shown<\/a> that nearly half of all workers would forgo higher pay to gain more flexibility.<\/p>\n

Comparably<\/strong><\/a> asked users<\/a> to share whether they were satisfied with their work-life balance. The data comes from the anonymous salary records of more than 33,000 Comparably users across the tech sector.<\/p>\n

Nearly 70% of people say they are satisfied with their work-life balance<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Sixty-nine percent of people say they are satisfied with their work-life balance. Men had a slightly higher percentage (71%) than women (67%).<\/p>\n

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Maintaining work-life satisfaction is tough at every age, but peaks between ages 41 and 50<\/strong><\/p>\n

The highest percentage of people satisfied with their work-life balance were workers between 41 and 50 (71%). The lowest percentage of people satisifed with their work-life balance were people between 18 and 25 (67%).<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>Seattle is the city with the best work-life balance<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Seventy-six percent of respondents in Seattle say they are satisfied with their work-life balance, the highest rate of any measured city. The next highest percentages were for respondents in San Francisco (73%) and Boston (73%).<\/p>\n

The cities where respondents were least satisfied with their work-life balance were Minneapolis (51%) and Ft. Lauderdale (55%).<\/p>\n

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\u00a0<\/strong>Executives, HR workers most satisfied; legal workers least satisfied<\/strong><\/p>\n

75% of the executive and HR workers surveyed said they were satisifed with their work-life balance. Engineering and product workers were close behind (74%). Workers in legal, communications, and customer support had the lowest percentages (60%, 61%, and 63%, respectively.)<\/p>\n

The highest rates by gender\/department were women in HR (75%) and men in product (75%). Lowest rates were women in communications (60%) and men in admin (61%).\u00a0\"uno\" <\/strong>\"dos\"<\/strong>Data is as of April 23.<\/p>\n

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For today\u2019s job seekers, work-life balance is the dream. Studies have shown that millennials value work-life balance more than all other job characteristics, though it\u2019s not just millennials thinking this way \u2013 research has also shown that nearly half of all workers would forgo higher pay to gain more flexibility. Comparably asked users to share … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,5],"tags":[44],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828"}],"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=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6424,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions\/6424"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}