Education United States July 2025
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
Education Management, Higher Education, Primary/Secondary Education, E-Learning
Reported gender breakdown
Female
65%
Male
34%
Non-Binary
0.85%
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.
67% of Education United States employees are engaged
This is in the top 48% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 8 and is in the bottom 30% compared with the overall average.
How does Education United States compare?
People in Education United States were much more positive than average regarding Diversity.
On the lower side, people in Education United States had much lower favorable scores than average in Decision Making, Equity, and Company Performance.
People working in Education United States are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe, Hungary, Germany (200-500), and Turkey 1000+. People working in Education United States are less engaged than East Asia (1000-5000), Hospital & Health Care (200-500), Thailand, and Retail North America.
The highest scoring question for Education 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 Contribution to Broader Purpose.
People in Education United States were generally least favourable about Decision Making, and were most negative towards 'I am satisfied with how decisions are made at %[Company]%' with 25% of people disagreeing (+9% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 26% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+6% 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
14%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
15%
Greater than 10 years
20%