Finance January 2026
~13m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~700
Organizations
These insights represent ~13m questions answered from ~700 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
Financial Services, Insurance, Real Estate, Investment Management, Banking, Venture Capital & Private Equity, Commercial Real Estate
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
43%
Oceania
20%
Europe
20%
Asia
10%
Latin America
3%
MEA
3%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
50%
Male
50%
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.
73% of Finance employees are engaged
This is in the top 41% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 22 and is in the top 22% compared with other industries.
How does Finance compare?
People in Finance were much more positive than average regarding Performance Effectiveness, Leadership, and Feedback Culture.
On the lower side, people in Finance had much lower favorable scores than average in Growth And Alignment.
People working in Finance are more engaged than Public Relations & Communications, Higher Education, Government Administration, and Government. People working in Finance are less engaged than Venture Capital & Private Equity and Engaging Growth.
The highest scoring question for Finance had 92% of people agreeing that The work that they do at %[Company]% is important (-2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Contribution to Broader Purpose.
People in Finance were generally least favourable about Decision Making, 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 22% of people disagreeing (-1% below 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 Finance organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 The leaders at %[Company]% demonstrate that people are important to the company's success | Leadership |
3 I have confidence in the leaders at %[Company]% | Leadership |
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 17% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-3% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 8% 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
9%
1 to less than 2 years
15%
2 to less than 4 years
25%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
14%
Greater than 10 years
18%