Booking agents 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, booking agents rate their career happiness 2.9 out of 5 stars which puts them in the bottom 27% of careers.
To put this into perspective, we compared how happy booking agents 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Consultant | 3.2 | $77k |
| Travel agent | 3.0 | $44k |
| Publicist | 2.9 | $63k |
| Fundraiser | 2.9 | $61k |
| Property manager | 2.9 | $59k |
| Street vendor | 2.9 | $29k |
| Fundraising manager | 2.8 | $115k |
So what does it mean to be happy in your career? Let’s break it down into different dimensions:
- Salary: Are booking agents happy with their salary?
- Meaning: Do booking agents find their jobs meaningful?
- Personality fit: How well suited are people’s personalities to their everyday tasks as booking agents?
- Work environment: How enjoyable are booking agent’s work environments?
- Skills utilization: Are booking agents making the best use of their abilities?
Are booking agents happy with their salary?
Booking agents rated their satisfaction with their salaries 2.5/5. Most booking agents do not feel that their salaries adequately reflect their work, and are actively unhappy with their income.
We asked booking agents how fairly compensated they are for their work.
Their response was:
2.5 out of 5 stars
70 booking agents
4% of booking agents rated their compensation 5 stars
16% of booking agents rated their compensation 4 stars
23% of booking agents rated their compensation 3 stars
33% of booking agents rated their compensation 2 stars
24% of booking agents rated their compensation 1 stars
Do booking agents find their jobs meaningful?
On average, booking agents rate the meaningfulness of their work a 2.5/5. The majority of booking agents struggle to find any sort of meaning in their work, likely resulting in less satisfaction with the career overall.
We asked booking agents how meaningful they found their work.
Their response was:
2.5 out of 5 stars
70 booking agents
6% of booking agents rated how meaningful they found their career 5 stars
17% of booking agents rated how meaningful they found their career 4 stars
24% of booking agents rated how meaningful they found their career 3 stars
23% of booking agents rated how meaningful they found their career 2 stars
30% of booking agents rated how meaningful they found their career 1 stars
How well are people’s personalities suited to everyday tasks as booking agents?
Booking agents rated their personality fit with their work an average of 3.3/5. The majority of booking agents find their personalities quite well suited to their work, with relatively few having complaints about their fit.
We asked booking agents how well their personalities fit into their careers.
Their response was:
3.3 out of 5 stars
78 booking agents
17% of booking agents rated their career fit 5 stars
36% of booking agents rated their career fit 4 stars
22% of booking agents rated their career fit 3 stars
14% of booking agents rated their career fit 2 stars
12% of booking agents rated their career fit 1 stars
How enjoyable is a booking agent’s work environment?
As a whole, booking agents rated their enjoyment of their work environment 3.3/5. Most of them tend to enjoy, or at least not be actively bothered by, their work environment.
We asked booking agents how much they enjoyed their work environment.
Their response was:
3.3 out of 5 stars
77 booking agents
21% of booking agents rated their work environment 5 stars
27% of booking agents rated their work environment 4 stars
23% of booking agents rated their work environment 3 stars
19% of booking agents rated their work environment 2 stars
9% of booking agents rated their work environment 1 stars
Are booking agents making the best use of their abilities?
Former booking agents on CareerExplorer have rated their skills utilization 2.8/5. Booking agents tend to feel that they don’t manage to use their abilities to their fullest, when compared to other careers.
We asked booking agents how well their abilities were used in their careers.
Their response was:
2.8 out of 5 stars
75 booking agents
13% of booking agents rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 5 stars
15% of booking agents rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 4 stars
32% of booking agents rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 3 stars
20% of booking agents rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 2 stars
20% of booking agents rated their how well their skills were utilized in their career 1 stars