Professional Services Australia January 2026
~3m
Questions answered
over 12 months- /
~350
Organizations
These insights represent ~3m questions answered from ~350 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, Accounting, Management Consulting, Legal Services, Banking, Architecture & Planning, Staffing & Recruiting
Reported gender breakdown
Female
53%
Male
47%
Non-Binary
0.14%
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 Professional Services Australia employees are engaged
This is in the top 43% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is 16 and is in the top 43% compared with the overall average.
How does Professional Services Australia compare?
People in Professional Services Australia were much more positive than average regarding Decision Making, Voice, and Growth.
On the lower side, people in Professional Services Australia had much lower favorable scores than average in Work Pressure, Innovation, and Learning & Development.
People working in Professional Services Australia are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management United Kingdom, Creative & Media Central Europe, Manufacturing Japan, and Computer Software Benelux. People working in Professional Services Australia are less engaged than Investment Management APAC, Information Technology & Services APAC, Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing United States, and New Tech (0-100).
The highest scoring question for Professional Services Australia had 89% of people agreeing that they understand how their work contributes to %[Company]%'s mission (-3% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Contribution to Broader Purpose.
People in Professional Services Australia were generally least favourable about Action, 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 24% 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 Professional Services Australia 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, 19% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (-1% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 11% 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
2%
3 months to 6 months
3%
6 months to less than 1 year
8%
1 to less than 2 years
16%
2 to less than 4 years
27%
4 to less than 6 years
12%
6 to less than 10 years
15%
Greater than 10 years
17%