Digital marketing specialists 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, digital marketing specialists rate their career happiness 3.1 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 38% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy digital marketing specialists 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Statistician | 3.2 | $96k |
| IT manager | 3.1 | $79k |
| Social media manager | 3.1 | $31k |
| Marketing manager | 3.1 | $135k |
| Advertising manager | 3.1 | $127k |
| Digital marketing specialist | 3.1 | $39k |
| Search engine optimization specialist | 3.1 | $39k |
| Project manager | 3.1 | $55k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are digital marketing specialists happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do digital marketing specialists find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as digital marketing specialists?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are digital marketing specialist’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are digital marketing specialists making the best use of their abilities?
Are digital marketing specialists happy with their salary?
Digital marketing specialists rated their satisfaction with their salaries 2.9/5. Digital marketing specialists tend to be quite unhappy with their salary, with very few reporting satisfaction with their pay.
We asked digital marketing specialists how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
2.9 out of 5 stars
3275 digital marketing specialists
9% of digital marketing specialists rated their compensation 5 stars
24% of digital marketing specialists rated their compensation 4 stars
32% of digital marketing specialists rated their compensation 3 stars
22% of digital marketing specialists rated their compensation 2 stars
13% of digital marketing specialists rated their compensation 1 stars
Do digital marketing specialists find their jobs meaningful?
On average, digital marketing specialists rate the meaningfulness of their work a 2.6/5. The majority of digital marketing specialists struggle to find any sort of meaning in their work, likely resulting in less satisfaction with the career overall.
We asked digital marketing specialists how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
2.6 out of 5 stars
3286 digital marketing specialists
8% of digital marketing specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
14% of digital marketing specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
26% of digital marketing specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
28% of digital marketing specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
23% of digital marketing specialists rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as digital marketing specialists?
Digital marketing specialists rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.7/5. The majority of digital marketing specialists find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.
We asked digital marketing specialists how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.7 out of 5 stars
3592 digital marketing specialists
22% of digital marketing specialists rated their career fit 5 stars
41% of digital marketing specialists rated their career fit 4 stars
25% of digital marketing specialists rated their career fit 3 stars
9% of digital marketing specialists rated their career fit 2 stars
3% of digital marketing specialists rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is a digital marketing specialist’s work environment?
As a whole, digital marketing specialists rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.5/5. A solid majority of digital marketing specialists enjoy their work environment, probably contributing to overall higher satisfaction with working as a digital marketing specialist.
We asked digital marketing specialists how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.5 out of 5 stars
3577 digital marketing specialists
17% of digital marketing specialists rated their work environment 5 stars
36% of digital marketing specialists rated their work environment 4 stars
27% of digital marketing specialists rated their work environment 3 stars
15% of digital marketing specialists rated their work environment 2 stars
5% of digital marketing specialists rated their work environment 1 stars
Are digital marketing specialists making the best use of their abilities?
Former digital marketing specialists on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 3.0/5. Most digital marketing specialists are satisfied with how well their abilities are skills are made of use.
We asked digital marketing specialists how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
3.0 out of 5 stars
3601 digital marketing specialists
11% of digital marketing specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
24% of digital marketing specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
30% of digital marketing specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
23% of digital marketing specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
11% of digital marketing specialists rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars