Welcome to Red Canary’s 2007-2008 Salary Survey Results, QA Edition
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Hours Worked Per Week, by Years of Experience
Hours Worked Per Week, by Company Size
Commute Times by Region
Overall Job Satisfaction: 1-12+ years of experience
Job Satisfaction by Company Size
If could improve one thing about your job, what would it be?
Conclusions
On the whole, Testing Professionals are more satisfied with their jobs than not, but don’t feel that they have particularly promising careers.
This career dissatisfaction is acute at the lower levels of experience. (Employers! Help your junior testers feel better about their jobs)
Waterloo Region workers tend to have the happiest baseline of the three regions, with Toronto having the greatest percentage of "100% Satisfied", as well as the largest "I’m actively looking elsewhere" groups.
Company size seems to have a polarizing effect on job satisfaction: small companies have the greatest number of very happy and very unhappy employees. Larger companies skew towards mildly positive or negative ambivalence.
Vacation time gets increasingly important for older workers while reducing their weekly toil becomes less of a concern…and it’s not because they work fewer hours, in fact they tend to work longer.