Automotive service technicians 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, automotive service technicians rate their career happiness 3.0 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 31% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy automotive service technicians 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Avionics technician | 3.0 | $54k |
| Metal caster | 3.0 | $39k |
| Auto body repairer | 3.0 | $40k |
| Ship engineer | 3.0 | $75k |
| Power plant operator | 3.0 | $82k |
| Automotive service technician | 3.0 | $40k |
| Construction manager | 3.0 | $89k |
| HVAC technician | 3.0 | $40k |
| Aircraft mechanic | 3.0 | $49k |
| Industrial machinery mechanic | 3.0 | $54k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are automotive service technicians happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do automotive service technicians find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as automotive service technicians?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are automotive service technician’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are automotive service technicians making the best use of their abilities?
Are automotive service technicians happy with their salary?
Automotive service technicians rated their satisfaction with their salaries 2.7/5. Automotive service technicians tend to be quite unhappy with their salary, with very few reporting satisfaction with their pay.
We asked automotive service technicians how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
2.7 out of 5 stars
1296 automotive service technicians
8% of automotive service technicians rated their compensation 5 stars
16% of automotive service technicians rated their compensation 4 stars
30% of automotive service technicians rated their compensation 3 stars
25% of automotive service technicians rated their compensation 2 stars
20% of automotive service technicians rated their compensation 1 stars
Do automotive service technicians find their jobs meaningful?
On average, automotive service technicians rate the meaningfulness of their work a 2.6/5. While most automotive service technicians aren’t very fulfilled by their work, some people may still manage to find meaning in it.
We asked automotive service technicians how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
2.6 out of 5 stars
1293 automotive service technicians
10% of automotive service technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
14% of automotive service technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
26% of automotive service technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
27% of automotive service technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
23% of automotive service technicians rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as automotive service technicians?
Automotive service technicians rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.8/5. The majority of automotive service technicians find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.
We asked automotive service technicians how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.8 out of 5 stars
1388 automotive service technicians
29% of automotive service technicians rated their career fit 5 stars
36% of automotive service technicians rated their career fit 4 stars
23% of automotive service technicians rated their career fit 3 stars
9% of automotive service technicians rated their career fit 2 stars
4% of automotive service technicians rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is an automotive service technician’s work environment?
As a whole, automotive service technicians rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.4/5. Most of them tend to enjoy, or at least not be actively bothered by, their work environment.
We asked automotive service technicians how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.4 out of 5 stars
1389 automotive service technicians
20% of automotive service technicians rated their work environment 5 stars
30% of automotive service technicians rated their work environment 4 stars
25% of automotive service technicians rated their work environment 3 stars
16% of automotive service technicians rated their work environment 2 stars
9% of automotive service technicians rated their work environment 1 stars
Are automotive service technicians making the best use of their abilities?
Former automotive service technicians on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 3.1/5. Most automotive service technicians are satisfied with how well their abilities are skills are made of use.
We asked automotive service technicians how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
3.1 out of 5 stars
1390 automotive service technicians
17% of automotive service technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
23% of automotive service technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
26% of automotive service technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
21% of automotive service technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
12% of automotive service technicians rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars