2001 Salary Survey

As any claim adjuster would be able to testify, U.S. workers are putting in the longest hours in the industrialized world, according to a recent International Labor Organization study. Nor would it surprise our readers to learn that, on average, U.S. employees spend nearly one week more on the job per year than they did a decade ago. Respondents to our salary survey consistently have cited that as their major job-related grievance, followed closely by the failure of their salaries to compensate for the longer and longer hours. Despite the years of complaints, the situation does not seem to be improving. “I’d gladly forgo a raise in exchange for reducing my work week to 40 hours,” said a 29-year old adjuster from Wisconsin. A staff adjuster from Ohio concurred, adding that things are getting worse. “I have never seen so many adjusters so angry,” he said.