Aviation & Aerospace January 2026
~415k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~30
Organizations
These insights represent ~415k questions answered from ~30 organizations, collected between January 2025 and December 2025.
The data meet our criteria as being robust and reliable; unlikely to substantially change over time; and representative of the wider industry. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Aviation & Aerospace
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
57%
Oceania
17%
MEA
10%
Asia
8%
Europe
8%
Reported gender breakdown
Male
68%
Female
32%
Non-Binary
0.12%
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 Aviation and Aerospace employees are engaged
This is in the top 44% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 21 and is in the top 24% compared with other industries.
How does Aviation and Aerospace compare?
On the lower side, people in Aviation & Aerospace had much lower favorable scores than average in Feedback & Recognition, Innovation, and Learning & Development.
People working in Aviation & Aerospace are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, Government Administration, and Government. People working in Aviation & Aerospace are less engaged than Legal Services, Venture Capital & Private Equity, and Engaging Growth.
The highest scoring question for Aviation & Aerospace had 89% of people agreeing that they know how their work contributes to the goals of %[Company]% (-1% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Aviation & Aerospace were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'When it is clear that someone is not delivering in their role we do something about it' with 18% of people disagreeing (+1% above average).
Which questions matter the most?
Different things are important to different cultures. If you want to make more of your people engaged then you need to know what is important your people. These questions are most important to keeping people engaged in Aviation and Aerospace organizations.
1 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
2 Most people here make a good effort to consult other staff where appropriate | Collaboration & Communication |
3 I believe my total compensation (base salary+any bonuses+benefits+equity) is fair, relative to similar roles at other companies | Alignment & Involvement |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 19% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-1% 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
3%
3 months to 6 months
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
24%
4 to less than 6 years
6%
6 to less than 10 years
13%
Greater than 10 years
27%