Masses of highly paid tech workers say they plan to quit their jobs, and health care workers aren’t far behind.
Workers in the two fields dominate Payscale’s latest list of the top roles employees said they were planning to leave within 6 months, based on employee-reported data from more than 770,000 U.S. workers between November 2022 and October 2023.
Even six-figure salaries aren’t enough to keep some workers in their roles. A majority, 66%, of senior product managers said they planned to find a new job in the last year, despite the fact that they commanded a $144,000 median annual salary.
Here are the top 15 jobs people are planning to quit:
- Senior product manager: 66% seeking a new job; $144,000 median pay
- Phlebotomist: 62% seeking a new job; $39,300 median pay
- Line cook: 62% seeking a new job; $32,200 median pay
- Patient care technician: 61% seeking a new job; $37,700
- Emergency room registered nurse: 60% seeking a new job; $79,100 median pay
- Patient services representative: 59% seeking a new job; $39,600 median pay
- Cyber security analyst: 59% seeking a new job; $82,900 median pay
- Welder, cutter, solderer or brazer: 58% seeking a new job; $48,400 median pay
- Forklift operator: 58% seeking a new job; $39,800 median pay
- IT program manager: 58% seeking a new job; $132,000 median pay
- Critical care registered nurse: 58% seeking a new job; $80,700 median pay
- Retail sales associate: 58% seeking a new job; $30,700 median pay
- Software development engineer: 58% seeking a new job; $86,800
- Senior data analyst: 58% seeking a new job; $97,100
- Patient care coordinator: 58% seeking a new job; $46,300
Many workers say they’re quitting thanks to a combination of a shaky economy, return-to-office mandates and stressful work environments, says Lexi Clarke, Payscale’s chief people officer.
Senior product managers, in particular, may have been spooked by high-profile layoffs in the tech industry and made plans to find more job security elsewhere, Clarke says.
These senior leaders may have had to work with limited…
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