OH pay and benefits 2024, Part 4: OH career decisions and opportunities

Part 4: factors that influence the career decisions and opportunities of OH professionals

Summary:

In the final part of Occupational Health [at Work]’s exclusive pay and benefits survey, Alice Sinclair and John Ballard explore OH professionals’ views of OH career opportunities and the factors that influence their career decisions.

Salary remains the most important consideration when occupational health (OH) practitioners make decisions about their choice of employer, ahead of having a manageable workload, job security and autonomy, our exclusive survey of OH professionals reveals. More than three-quarters of OH professionals believe that career opportunities in OH are either better than or the same as they were when they joined the profession…

 

Alice Sinclair is a freelance social policy researcher with considerable experience in research on occupational health.

Dr John Ballard is editor of Occupational Health [at Work]

Author: Ballard J, Sinclair A

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Occupational Health at Work August/September 2025 (vol. 22/2) pp26-31

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