The number: 90% — Whistling at work

Despite the current deep recession, Americans still on the job appear to be a contented lot. A recent nationwide survey by the Pew Research Center's Social & Demographic Trends project finds that 9-in-10 employed adults are either "completely satisfied" (30 percent) or "mostly satisfied" (60%) with their jobs. Older working adults are the most content: 54% say they are completely satisfied with their jobs. In June 2006, before the onset of the current recession, a virtually identical share of all workers (89%) reported they were satisfied with their job. In fact, overall job satisfaction levels appear to have little relationship to the business cycle; they have been stable since at least 1989, when the Gallup Organization first asked this question and found that 89% of all workers were satisfied with their jobs.

SOURCE: Pew Research Center