NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Turns out there's a reason they call it La-La land.
"Thrilled" or "happy"
with current job |
| Los Angeles |
71.1% |
| San Francisco |
69.3% |
| Boston |
67.5% |
| Kansas City |
66.8% |
| Houston |
66.0% |
| National Avg. |
62.9% |
"Unhappy" or "miserable"
in current job |
| Denver |
16.8% |
| Atlanta |
15.9% |
| Dallas |
14.9% |
| Charlotte |
14.9% |
| Cleveland |
14.5% |
| National Avg. |
11.0% |
| "Highly stressed" |
| Detroit |
35.0% |
| San Francisco |
32.2% |
| Philadelphia |
32.0% |
| Dallas |
31.7% |
| Denver |
31.7% |
| National Avg. |
28.2% |
| "Feel appreciated" |
| San Francisco |
73.4% |
| Boston |
73.0% |
| Miami |
70.9% |
| Seattle |
70.5% |
| Kansas City |
70.5% |
| National Avg. |
66.3% |
| Don't "feel appreciated" |
| Detroit |
43.0% |
| Cleveland |
40.5% |
| Atlanta |
38.8% |
| Philadelphia |
38.4% |
| Charlotte |
37.4% |
| National Avg. |
33.7% |
| Happy with current boss |
| Boston |
50.0% |
| Phoenix |
49.3% |
| Tampa |
47.5% |
| Seattle |
47.5% |
| Kansas City |
47.2% |
| National Avg. |
43.0% |
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Los Angeles has the happiest workers of any of America's major urban areas, according to a survey by Digital Marketing Services. Seventy-one percent of full-time employees in L.A. described themselves as happy.
Nationwide, about 63 percent of workers described themselves as "happy" or "thrilled" with their current jobs, according to the study, which was sponsored by America Online. (America Online is a division of Time Warner, as is CNN/Money.)
Boston, meanwhile, had the highest percentage of workers saying they were happy with their current boss (50 percent) and more workers in San Francisco said they felt "appreciated" (73 percent) than anywhere else.
On the downside, higher percentages of workers in Detroit described themselves as "stressed" (35 percent) and "not appreciated" (43 percent) than in any other major urban area.
At least they're not working a lot of overtime. Detroit came in fifth, at 45 percent, in the category of "Number of people working an 8-hour day or less." New York workers topped that category at 60 percent.
Dallas had the most employees stretching their workdays, with 56 percent saying they worked more than an 8-hour day. Those happy minions in Los Angeles were fourth in that category with 53 percent saying they worked long days.
Despite the high percentages of generally happy workers, 58 percent of workers nationally said an improving economy would spur them to start looking for a new job. Thirty-seven percent said they had actually looked for a new job in the past year.
Of those looking for a new job, 72 percent said they used the Internet for at least one hour a week in their search. Monster.com was, by far, the most commonly used resource with 63 percent of respondents saying they had used that site to look for a job.
About 5,000 adult full-time workers took the survey which was conducted from January 5 to Febuary 2, 2004 through OpinionPlace, a on-line polling site operated by DMS. The margin of error is +/- 1.34 percent.
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