Percentage of 2020–21 public K–12 school teachers who reported that they somewhat or strongly agreed with statements about job satisfaction, by whether they were still teaching in the same school, had moved to another school, or had voluntarily stopped teaching in 2021–22: School year 2021–22

	Job status
Statement about job satisfaction in 2020–21	Stayers	Movers	Leavers
The school administration’s behavior toward the staff is supportive and encouraging	88.3	77.3	83.0
I am satisfied with my teaching salary	51.4	39.6	50.0
The level of student misbehavior in this school (such as noise, horseplay or fighting in the halls, cafeteria, or student lounge) interferes with my teaching	29.9	38.8	29.2
I receive a great deal of support from parents for the work I do	62.0	54.7	60.9
Necessary materials such as textbooks, supplies, and copy machines are available as needed by the staff	86.5	80.7	85.4
Routine duties and paperwork interfere with my job of teaching	61.5	66.0	59.8
My principal enforces school rules for student conduct and backs me up when I need it	85.1	74.7	83.2
Rules for student behavior are consistently enforced by teachers in this school, even for students who are not in their classes	68.5	61.0	68.3
Most of my colleagues share my beliefs and values about what the central mission of the school should be	88.2	80.2	82.4
The principal knows what kind of school he or she wants and has communicated it to the staff	86.1	76.7	82.7
There is a great deal of cooperative effort among the staff members	85.0	74.9	80.8
In this school, staff members are recognized for a job well done	78.6	63.3	76.5
I worry about the security of my job because of the performance of my students or my school on state and/or local tests	25.9	32.7	25.8
State or district content standards have had a positive influence on my satisfaction with teaching	41.0	37.1	37.3
I am given the support I need to teach students with special needs	69.2	60.5	64.5
The amount of student tardiness and class cutting in this school interferes with my teaching	36.2	40.1	33.8
I am generally satisfied with being a teacher at this school	92.3	78.3	83.5
I make a conscious effort to coordinate the content of my courses with that of other teachers	89.6	86.1	83.3

NOTE: Data are weighted estimates of the population. “Stayers” are teachers who were teachers in the same school in the 2021–22 TFS school year as in the 2020–21 NTPS school year. “Movers” are teachers who were still teachers in the 2021–22 TFS school year but had moved to a different school from their 2020–21 NTPS school. “Leavers” are 2020–21 NTPS teachers who were no longer teachers in the 2021–22 TFS school year. Among public school teachers who were teaching during the 2020–21 school year, 84 percent remained at the same school during the 2021–22 school year (“stayers”), 8 percent moved to a different school (“movers”), and 8 percent left the teaching profession (“leavers”). Response options included “strongly disagree,” “somewhat disagree,” “somewhat agree,” and “strongly agree.” The percentage of teachers who responded “somewhat agree” or “strongly agree” to each statement were added together to produce the percentages in this table.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS), “Current and Former Teacher Data Files,” 2021–22.