Education Management July 2026
~580k
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~50
Organizations
These insights represent ~580k questions answered from ~50 organizations, collected between July 2025 and June 2026.
To ensure accuracy and stability of Emerging benchmarks we may use statistical sampling methods. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Education Management
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
58%
Oceania
20%
Europe
17%
Asia
4%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
67%
Male
33%
Non-Binary
0.13%
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.
68% of Education Management employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 40% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 5 and is in the bottom 7% compared with other industries.
How does Education Management compare?
People in Education Management were much more positive than average regarding Voice.
On the lower side, people in Education Management had much lower favorable scores than average in Company Performance, Service & Quality Focus, and Leadership.
People working in Education Management are more engaged than Local Councils AU & NZ. People working in Education Management are less engaged than Hotels, Law Practice, Automotive, and Mental Health Care.
The highest scoring question for Education Management had 90% of people agreeing that their manager genuinely cares about their wellbeing (+3% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Education Management 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 17% of people disagreeing (+0% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 23% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+4% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 12% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+2% 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
5%
6 months to less than 1 year
7%
1 to less than 2 years
14%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
14%
6 to less than 10 years
15%
Greater than 10 years
17%