{"id":3811,"date":"2026-08-12T20:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3811"},"modified":"2026-08-12T20:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T20:43:07","slug":"gen-zers-like-what-philly-has-to-offer-but-they-want-better-pay-and-more-work-opportunities-survey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3811","title":{"rendered":"Gen Zers like what Philly has to offer, but they want better pay and more work opportunities, survey says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div><audio><\/audio><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gen Z has established a foothold in the workplace, and as these workers become a bigger part of Philadelphia\u2019s workforce, they\u2019re increasingly shaping the economy. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3809\">A robotic heart surgery specialist was fired by Main Line Health for blowing the whistle on complications, lawsuit<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>So what do Philadelphia\u2019s Gen Zers think is a good job? <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>The perhaps unsurprising answer: one that allows advancement opportunities, high pay, and employer-funded healthcare benefits, as well as work-life balance and boundaries. That\u2019s the finding of a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>And for some Gen Zers Pew heard from, pursuing a job in their field means looking beyond Philadelphia. Outside of healthcare, and some opportunities in law and engineering, they say, other desirable industries don\u2019t seem to be hiring much here.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding their attitudes, their perspectives about work, about what a workplace should be, what their feelings are about work-life balance\u201d is important, said Thomas Ginsberg, author of the report on Gen Z workplace attitudes. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Released Wednesday, the report is based on focus group discussions that took place last year with 54 Philadelphians aged 18 to 29. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>They\u2019re skeptical about what\u2019s learned in college and want to build up more hard skills And they see work as a key to living well, not as the reason to live. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re not at all reticent about working hard,\u201d Ginsberg said. \u201cWhat they\u2019re doing is questioning what\u2019s the ultimate goal of \u2018work hard.\u2019 It\u2019s to have an affordable personal life, in their view.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>But participants in the survey expressed that \u201cjobs today often don\u2019t deliver that,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cYou work hard and you still can\u2019t buy a house,\u201d Ginsberg said. \u201cThose two things are coming together pretty starkly for this group.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Gen Zers looking outside Philly for good, flexible jobs <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Gen Z Philadelphians want flexible work hours and perhaps the freedom to go to the dentist without requesting time off from work.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>They want boundaries when they\u2019re off the clock, so they can maintain hobbies and relationships. But they also want some in-office time to learn from colleagues. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t live to work. I work to live. So there needs to be that distinction between the two,\u201d one participant said. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Much of Philadelphia\u2019s Gen Z population works in healthcare, social assistance, and education services, reflecting the city\u2019s eds and meds focused economy. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3807\">Treasury ends ownership reporting rules for U.S. companies<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Survey participants interested in healthcare jobs said there were plenty to go around. Others looking outside that field said there aren\u2019t enough good job opportunities. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>In particular, they said, jobs in tech, finance, and the arts seem more scarce. They said New York and Washington, D.C., seem to have more opportunities in those fields. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>And while cost of living and housing seems lower in Philadelphia than in other East Coast cities, jobs here generally pay less, they say. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Still, they like much of what the city offers for non-work hours, from the social life to the sports, arts, and transportation. SEPTA, PATCO, and NJ Transit attracted some Gen Zers to the area in the first place, the report said. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>College builds contacts, not skills, Gen Z says <\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>A little over half of Philadelphia residents between the ages of 25 and 29 had a bachelor\u2019s degree between 2020 and 2024 \u2014 a higher share than residents older than them. But Pew found this age group has reservations about whether college provides what they need for career advancement. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThis age group is the highest-educated age group that we can measure \u2026 and even so, they\u2019re only marginally positive about the value of college education,\u201d Ginsberg said. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>College-educated Philadelphians surveyed said their higher education was valuable for building a professional network, Ginsberg said, but not as much for hard skills. They said they want more training in skills like coding, data analytics, AI, and industry-specific software. Some said they know they will need a graduate degree to advance.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Those without a degree felt they could get those hard skills without college, said Ginsberg, pointing to the availability of specialized programs and microcredentials. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Still, those without an undergraduate degree said that they felt like employers favored potential hires who had gone to college and that they could have benefited from learning soft skills such as public speaking, networking, and interviewing in a college setting. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Gen Z doubts the value of retirement benefits<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Ginsberg noted that the Gen Z respondents expressed skepticism about financial institutions and retirement, which he wasn\u2019t expecting. Some said they had purposely forgone their employer\u2019s 401(k) plan or couldn\u2019t afford to set money aside to retire. Some said they felt more confident investing money on their own. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cGen Z has lived through two economic shocks in this country,\u201d Ginsberg said. They\u2019re also facing record levels of college debt, and high inflation. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re translating that, to some degree, into questioning whether the institutions of our economy actually are doing right by them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate-movers-usa.com\/?p=3805\">As Rose Tree Media pushes for new K-1 school, Middletown neighbors urge township to \u2018just say no\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A report from the Pew Charitable Trusts discusses what Gen Z workers want out of their jobs, as well as their skepticism about college and retirement benefits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jobs","category-labor"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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