Better Pay Is Top Reason Workers Are Quitting Jobs

The percentage of workers voluntarily quitting their jobs is at an all-time high, and the top reason they’re doing so is for more pay. So says a survey by Glassdoor, the workplace review website. The survey, Understanding the Impact of Quality Candidates, questioned 750 hiring decision-makers in the U.S. and the U.K. and found that nearly half (45 percent) say that salary is the biggest reason that employees change jobs, followed by a desire for career advancement opportunities (32 percent), better benefits (29 percent) and a more desirable location (28 percent).And while about two-thirds of respondents (64 percent) said their organization is either “satisfactory” or “very satisfactory” when it comes to clearly stating pay and benefit expectations in job postings, the survey authors disagreed.