• Eighty-seven percent of clergy reported being very satisfied.
  • Clergy were followed by firefighters (80 percent) and physical therapists (78 percent).
• Other top jobs include education administrators, painters and sculptors, teachers, authors, psychologists, special education teachers, operating engineers, office supervisors and security and financial services salespersons, with more than 60 percent saying they are very satisfied.
  • On the other end of the satisfaction scale, only 25 percent of roofers said they found their job satisfying.
  • Other low satisfaction jobs according to the study include those held by waiters and servers, laborers (except construction trades), bartenders, handpackers and packagers, freight, stock and material handlers, apparel clothing salespersons, cashiers, food preparers (excluding cooks and chefs), expeditors (customer service representatives), butchers and meat cutters, and furniture and home furnishing salespersons.
• In addition to being the most satisified, clergy also out-ranked other American workers as being the happiest (67 percent).
  • Behind clergy were firefighters and transportation ticket and reservation agents, with 57 percent reporting being very happy.
• The least happy American workers were garage and service station attendants (13 percent); roofers (14 percent) and molding and casting machine operators (11 percent).

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