Now, overall job and life satisfaction, sense of well being and the work that they do are intricately tied together.

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On the other hand, when an employee understands clearly what they are expected to do, and how they can be certain they have met those expectations, it allows the employee to feel a sense of purpose and accomplishment, which leads to overall satisfaction with their job.

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The overall correlation we arrived at between pay level and job satisfaction was just .15. (For comparison, the correlation between typical human height and weight is .44, and the correlation between IQ scores in identical twins is .86.) This suggests that within an organization, those who make more money are barely more satisfied than those who make much less.

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