Original career research, published with its data
The MyPassion.ai quiz produces something most career content lacks: first-party data from people in the middle of the career question. We publish what it shows, state every base, name the limits, and release the charts and tables for reuse under CC BY 4.0.
Seven publications, and the full method behind them. Every figure states its base and can be checked against how it was collected.
7 original research pieces from proprietary data
Each page owns a different cut of the same responses and states the bases it sits on. Every figure across all seven is computed from the same underlying dataset, under the rules set out in our research methodology.
The Career Change Report 2026
What 6,837 people told us about being lost in their careers. Twelve findings, nine data tables, and shareable charts under CC BY 4.0.
Read itCareer Change Statistics 2026
Twelve citable career change statistics from first-party data, each with its base stated, plus a figure index listing every published number across the whole section.
Read itThe Golden Handcuffs Index
Boredom is the top career struggle for people who are paid well and want out (26.2%) and the bottom one for everyone else (8.0%). A previously unpublished cross-tab.
Read itThe Education Paradox
The share naming stuck or bored as their core career struggle triples between high school and a master's degree, from 6.4% to 20.1%. Plus what survives when career stage is held constant.
Read itJob Satisfaction Statistics 2026
Satisfaction is at a 39-year high, and one in five people trying to leave their career are already paid well. The workforce-wide rate, what each source measures, and what dissatisfaction is made of.
Read itBurnout Statistics 2026
Published burnout figures disagree sharply because surveys measure different things. The WHO definition, four checks before quoting a number, and why boredom is not burnout.
Read itJob Hopping Statistics 2026
The 12.7 figure everyone quotes counts jobs, not careers, and there is no official lifetime career-change number at all. Plus what actually changes across a working life.
Read itHow this research is made
Career statistics circulate widely with no sample size, no field dates and no statement of what the number cannot support. We publish the opposite way round. Each point below links to the section of the full research methodology that substantiates it.
Who is in the data
People who found a free career quiz and chose to take it while looking for direction. Nobody was recruited into a panel, quota-sampled, or paid to answer.
Read the sampling frameWhy every number states a base
Questions were added and revised over the collection window and some can be skipped, so coverage runs from 95.3% for life situation down to 34.1% for the flow trigger.
Read coverage by fieldWhat was removed before publishing
All free text and every identifier, to protect respondents. Responses recorded against superseded question versions were excluded rather than remapped onto answers people never saw.
Read the exclusion rulesWhen we refuse to publish a number
Any cross-tab row with fewer than 100 respondents is suppressed and prints n/a. The threshold is applied mechanically, so it cannot be relaxed for a row that would otherwise be interesting.
Read the small-cell ruleWriting about career change?
Every chart, table and figure here is free to reuse with a link back. The underlying dataset has ten columns, so most questions can be answered by crossing two of them, and we share it with journalists and researchers on request. If you need a cut we have not published, the data itself, or want the limitations walked through before you publish rather than after, email the research team.
Start with the figure index, which lists every published number in the section with the base it sits on and the page carrying the analysis.
Research and analysis by Marco Kohns, founder of MyPassion.AI.
Published growth researcher (Journal of Business Research, Q1), MSc NOVA IMS Lisbon, and lecturer on AI for business at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. Previously a growth product manager at a Silicon Valley scale-up operating in 100+ countries.
Disclosure: MyPassion.AI operates the career quiz that produced this data and sells a paid career report. Every figure states its base, the method is published in full, and we run custom cuts of the aggregate data for journalists and researchers on request.