A new survey released by The Conference Board found that U.S. employees’ job satisfaction overall is the highest it has ever been since the survey began in 1987. Results from the annual survey put overall job satisfaction at 62.3 percent in 2022.

The greatest satisfaction rate gains came in what the Board refers to as “experience of work” factors—American employees are now happier with their work/life balance and workload, for example, and contentment with compensation and workplace benefits also saw rises last year.

Just over 62 percent of survey respondents indicated overall satisfaction with their jobs, a 2.1 percentage point increase over the prior year’s survey and a 5 percentage point jump over that recorded in 2020. The lowest level of satisfaction (42.6 percent) recorded in the history of the survey came in 2010 on the heels of the Great Recession.

That’s increased 19.7 percent in the years since, with 2022’s figure the highest since the survey began in 1987. The 1,680 workers surveyed were particularly satisfied with their commutes, their co-workers, the physical environment they worked in and job security.

Survey respondents who had recently changed jobs were more likely to say they were satisfied. The survey also revealed a disparity between male and female work satisfaction, with women less satisfied in each of the 26 factors assessed.