The Partnership for Public Service released a new study that indicates that members of the Senior Executive Service indicate greater job satisfaction overall than other federal employees.
The ratings are scored across multiple categories and are based on the Best Places to Work rankings. The overall scoring differences between SES members and other federal employees breaks out as follows:
| Members of the SES | All Other Employees | Gap | |
| Best Places to Work Index | 82.6 | 64.0 | 18.6 |
| Effective Leadership | 78.9 | 55.8 | 23.1 |
| Empowerment | 74.0 | 53.1 | 20.9 |
| Fairness | 81.5 | 53.8 | 27.7 |
| Senior Leaders | 77.7 | 49.3 | 28.4 |
| Supervisors | 81.4 | 64.8 | 16.6 |
| Employee Skills/Mission Match | 89.8 | 77.5 | 12.3 |
| Pay | 63.7 | 58.6 | 5.1 |
| Strategic Management | 76.2 | 55.9 | 20.3 |
| Teamwork | 85.0 | 65.5 | 19.5 |
| Training and Development | 73.4 | 60.2 | 13.2 |
| Work/Life Balance | 62.6 | 61.1 | 1.5 |
| Support for Diversity | 83.1 | 57.8 | 25.3 |
| Performance Based Rewards and Advancement | 73.2 | 44.7 | 28.5 |
The study found some score varations by agency and gender.
