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Agreement that the respondent would turn down a better-paying job to stay with their organization, among those who agreed or disagreed; 1991 offered no neutral option, and later years say 'quite a bit more pay.'
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 35% answered “Agree” in GSS: Would turn down job with much more pay to stay, 2016.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
Groups differ from everyone by 7 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Would turn down job with much more pay to stay.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Would turn down higher-paying job to stay with employer | Would turn down higher-paying job to stay with employer Please tell me how much you agree or disagree with the following statements. Would you say that you strongly agree, agree, disagree, or strongly disagree?
G. I would turn down another job for more pay in order to stay with this organization. Caveat: No neutral midpoint; forced choice; wording says 'more pay' without 'quite a bit' | equivalent | Strongly agree → Agree; Agree → Agree; Disagree → Disagree; Strongly disagree → Disagree |
| GSS: Would turn down job with much more pay to stay | Would turn down job with much more pay to stay To what extent do you agree or disagree with each of the following statements?
D. I would turn down another job that offered quite a bit more pay in order to stay with this organization. Caveat: Has neutral midpoint; wording 'quite a bit more pay' is slightly stronger | equivalent | Strongly agree → Agree; Agree → Agree; Disagree → Disagree; Strongly disagree → Disagree |
Groups differ from everyone by 5 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Would turn down job with much more pay to stay.
Subgroup charts are picked automatically. Of every breakdown in the data (party, ideology, age, sex, race, education, income, region, religion, and community type), these two put their groups furthest from everyone’s answers: the gap is averaged across all answer categories and waves, with each group weighted by its share of respondents. Party and ideology count as one choice, so the second chart shows a different kind of split. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave.