Only 40% of Workers Have High-Quality Jobs, Gallup Finds

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What Makes This Study Different

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Unprecedented Scale

A nationally representative study of more than 18,000 workers surveyed across job types, industries, regions and demographics.

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Multidimensional View

Goes far beyond wages or job satisfaction to explore how job quality elements interact — compounding or offsetting one another — and impact worker success.

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Better Worker Representation

Includes part-time and non-W-2 workers often excluded from national labor surveys.

Why Job Quality Matters Now

Workplace norms and worker expectations have shifted dramatically. Today’s labor market is shaped by new economic realities, evolving technologies and changing values.

Yet we’re still relying on outdated metrics to define success.

This study comes at a critical time — offering fresh insights into how job quality affects workers’ wellbeing, job satisfaction, health, work-life balance and personal financial situation, which all tie to burnout and turnover and ultimately affect U.S. economic competitiveness. It’s a call to leaders across public and private sectors: If we want a strong and stable workforce, we have to start by understanding what workers need to thrive at work.

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