Sustainability Careers and Salary Survey Benchmarking Report
In summer 2010, Environment Analyst analysed the records of 17,000 recent candidates on the books at recruitment consultant Allen & York and conducted a separate in-depth online survey of 2,600 UK and global sustainability professionals. The two exercises provide the most accurate record to date of average real salaries across the sustainability industries, together with a snapshot of how the industries are coping with the economic downturn and the current state of the profession.
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The 73-page PDF report (published winter 2010/11) contains extensive analysis, including:
- Salaries by type of organisation, primary work area, seniority, post-qualification experience, UK region, global region
- Salary change in last 12 months by type of organisation, primary work area, by promotion and by those staying in same roles
- Recent bonus by type of organisation
- Benefits received and most desired by type of organisation
- Plus many other survey responses broken down by types of organisations and other finer levels of detail
Industries analysed: Consultancy & professional advisory; public sector (agencies and central and local government); corporate/ industrial (incl. oil & gas, construction); environmental industries (laboratories, remediation contractors, renewables, waste, and water); NGOs; and academia
Work areas assessed: Energy & environmental management (incl. HSE); impact assessment, ecology & planning; CSR / sustainability; waste management & recycling; carbon strategy; renewables; contaminated land / remediation; water & wastewater (incl. coastal/marine); environmental health, protection & licensing; and chemicals management
Regions covered: Africa and Middle East; Australasia; Central & South America; Central & South East Asia; East Europe; North America; West Europe (non-UK); and UK
A full list of figures and charts is provided below (scroll down).
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Sustainability Professionals Careers & Salary Benchmarking Report
- Table of contents
Section 1 – Globalisation and specialist roles help drive green jobs out of recession
Feature exploring the careers and salaries of sustainability professionals including case studies with:
- Allen & York
- Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)
- International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP)
- Natural Power
- SITA
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Section 2 – Allen & York salary benchmarking data
Salaries, and other findings from the analysis of Allen & York’s 17,000 candidate records:
- Industry sector of candidates
- Primary work area of candidates
- Candidates’ position with organisation
- Gender of candidates
- Nationality of candidates
- Candidates’ willingness to relocate
- Age profile of candidates
- Average salary of candidates by position and organisation type
- Average salary of candidates by position and primary work area
- Candidates’ average salary by organisation type and primary work area
- Average candidates’ salary by age
- Average candidates’ salary by gender
- Average candidate’s salary by region
- Average candidates’ salary by position and region
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Section 3 – UK careers & salary survey results
Salaries, bonuses, trends, perks and other findings from the UK participants in our online survey:
Executive summary
Part 1 – Coping with the economic downturn
- Main action introduced by organisations as a response to the current economic downturn
- Trend in number of UK sustainability professional staff
- Staff number trends in last 12 months by type of organisation
- Staff number trends in next 12 months by type of organisation
- Current level of job security in participant’s role in their organisation compared with 12 months ago
- Current level of job security in other sustainability roles compared with 12 months ago
- Job security by staff number trends in organisations
- Job security by organisation type
- Prospects for UK sustainability firms – and the staff they employ – across the sector in 2009 and 2010
- Long-term prospects for UK sustainability firms – and the staff they employ – across the sector for the next five years (2009 and 2010 results)
- Willingness to accept lower pay and/or work fewer hours in order to save colleagues from redundancy
Part 2 – The survey participants: a profile of the environmental industry
- Industry sector of survey participants
- Size of participants’ organisation
- Age of participants
- % of participants that is female by organisation type
- Participants’ position with organisations
- Number of staff reporting to participant
- Primary work area of participant
- Main purpose of participants’ role
- Educational background
- Previous careers
- Number of years worked as a sustainability professional
- Posts held as a sustainability professional
- Organisations worked for as an sustainability professional
- Years worked for current employer
- Average length of service by organisation type
- Proportion of participants with overseas experience
Part 3 – Career satisfaction, prospects and changing jobs
- Opportunities to progress chosen career within your organisation
- Opportunities to progress chosen career within the wider jobs market
- Prospects by organisation type
- Importance of environmental management performance of organisation in staying with employer
- Current level of job satisfaction
- Job satisfaction by organisation type
- Number of years in which participants are hoping to change employer
- Average forecast time with current employer by organisation type
Part 4 – Salaries and benefits
- Profile of current basic salary
- Basic average salary by organisation type
- Basic salary by age
- Basic salary by gender
- Current basic salary by length of post qualification experience
- Salary by position and organisation type
- Salary by position and primary work area
- Salary by post qualification experience and organisation type
- Salary profile of each organisation type
- Average basic salary by primary work area
- Average basic salary by main role
- Salary change in last 12 months
- Salary change in last 12 months for those staying in the same role
- Average salary change in last 12 months by organisation type
- Average salary change in last 12 months by primary work area
- Size of last bonus as % of salary
- Size of last bonus as % of salary by organisation type
- Benefits received (if receiving benefits), by organisation type
- Benefits most like to have, that don’t currently have, by organisation type
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Section 4 – Global careers & salary survey results
Salaries, bonuses, trends, perks and other findings from the global participants in our online survey:
Executive summary
- Staff trends – last 12 months, by region
- Staff trends – next 12 months, by region
- Job security – your role, by region
- Job security – other sustainability roles, by region
- Prospects – 2010, by region
- Prospects – 2011-2015, by region
- Actions taken by participants’ organisations, by region
- Proportion that would not work less hours or accept lower salary to save colleagues from redundancy, by region
- Importance of environmental management performance within employer, by region
- Opportunities to progress chosen career - your organisation, by region
- Opportunities to progress chosen career – wider jobs market, by region
- Current level of job satisfaction, by region
- Average number of years when participants expect to change employer, by region
- Average salaries by region, by region
- Regional salaries indexed by all salaries, by region
- Salary increase in last 12 months, by region
- Proportion receiving a pay increase, by region
- Proportion receiving a bonus, by region
- Bonus as a % of salary, by region
- Benefits currently in receipt by % of participants, by region
- Benefits would most like to have by % of participants, by region
- Proportion of participants who are female, by region
- Average length of post-qualification experience, by region
Careers and Salary Report
Published winter 2010/11
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