Investment Banking July 2025
~0.8m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~35
Organizations
These insights represent ~0.8m questions answered from ~35 organizations, collected between July 2024 and June 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
Investment Banking
Most represented regions in this benchmark
Northern America
64%
Oceania
27%
Europe
6%
Asia
3%
Reported gender breakdown
Female
54%
Male
46%
Non-Binary
0.05%
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.
70% of Investment Banking employees are engaged
This is in the top 44% compared with other industries.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 14 and is in the bottom 34% compared with other industries.
How does Investment Banking compare?
People in Investment Banking were much more positive than average regarding Social Connection and Inclusion.
On the lower side, people in Investment Banking had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Company Performance, and Innovation.
People working in Investment Banking are more engaged than Government Administration, Higher Education, Government, and Media Production & Publication. People working in Investment Banking are less engaged than Biotechnology, Accounting, Computer & Network Security, and Investment Management.
The highest scoring question for Investment Banking had 88% 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 Investment Banking 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 19% of people disagreeing (+2% 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 Investment Banking organizations.
1 %[Company]% is a great company for me to make a contribution to my development | Learning & Development |
2 I believe there are good career opportunities for me at %[Company]% | Learning & Development |
3 I am given opportunities to develop skills relevant to my interests | Learning & Development |
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
3%
3 months to 6 months
4%
6 months to less than 1 year
7%
1 to less than 2 years
12%
2 to less than 4 years
22%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
16%
Greater than 10 years
23%