Apparel & Fashion United States January 2026
Emerging
Benchmark status
We consider this an emerging benchmark: it has enough data available for us to use bootstrapping to create a representative sample. As the sample grows in size, some scores may slightly change. Our research has shown that our bootstrapped scores are consistent with our standard benchmarks. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Apparel & Fashion, Furniture, Luxury Goods & Jewelry, Textiles
Reported gender breakdown
Female
59%
Male
41%
Non-Binary
0.82%
Are employees committed to their organizations?
Engaged people are emotionally committed to their organization. These people stay at their organizations longer and are more productive and effective. Successful organizations have more engaged employees.
72% of Apparel and Fashion United States employees are engaged
This is in the top 44% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 24 and is in the top 18% compared with the overall average.
How does Apparel and Fashion United States compare?
People in Apparel & Fashion United States were much more positive than average regarding Company Performance, Innovation, and Growth.
On the lower side, people in Apparel & Fashion United States had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Learning & Development, and Enablement.
People working in Apparel & Fashion United States are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Apparel & Fashion United States are less engaged than Finance Southeast Asia, East Asia (500-1000), Computer Software Southeast Asia, and South America > 5000.
The highest scoring question for Apparel & Fashion United States had 91% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (+2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Apparel & Fashion United States were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'I believe my total compensation (base salary+any bonuses+benefits+equity) is fair, relative to similar roles at other companies' with 27% of people disagreeing (+4% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 18% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-2% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 9% of people see themselves leaving within two years (-1% compared to overall).
Understanding Tenure distributions
Tenure describes how long an employee has worked for their company: we know through our research that newly hired employees tend to be more positive than their tenured counterparts. Positivity declines sharply before bottoming out between two to six years, then rises slightly for those that remain.
The tenure composition of a benchmark can influence overall scores.
Tenure distributions
Less than 3 months
4%
3 months to 6 months
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
17%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
15%