Slow and Steady
Our 10th Annual Salary Survey
By Emily Tipping
Hard at Work
The percentage of respondents who are reporting that their level of responsibility is increasing year-over-year saw a slight increase in 2017. While 59.8 percent said their level of responsibility had increased in 2015, some 61.5 percent said their level of responsibility had increased in 2016. This is still down from 2014, when nearly two-thirds (66.1 percent) saw greater levels of responsibility. Looking ahead, slightly fewer (57.1 percent) are expecting their level of responsibility to increase this year. (See Figure 11.)
Finally, let's take a moment to appreciate how happy most of you are with your work. As has been the case in every year we've reported on the salary survey, the vast majority of survey respondents report that they are either satisfied (52.5 percent) or very satisfied (39.8 percent) with their work. In 2017, only 5.9 percent said they were unsatisfied, and 1.7 percent were very unsatisfied. (See Figure 12.)
Survey Methodology
This report is based on a survey conducted for Recreation Management by Signet Research Inc., an independent research company. An e-mail was broadcast and respondents were invited to participate. From the launch of the survey on Feb. 7, 2017, to the closing of the survey on Feb. 27, 2017, 1,743 returns were received. The findings of this survey may be accepted as accurate, at a 95 percent confidence level, within a sampling tolerance of approximately +/- 2.3 percent.