# A third call $62,000 fair pay for their job

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> Indexed question in Money & Finance.

## Reading

About a third of Americans (36%) would consider $62,192 fair pay for their current job, according to an August 2025 Verasight survey.

Roughly one-in-five (19%) are not employed, and the rest spread across degrees of under- and overpayment, led by the 10% who call that salary extreme underpayment.

## Topline

If you were paid $62,192 for your current job, would you consider that to be:

A third call $62,000 fair pay for their job.

- Fair Payment: 36.5%
- I am not employed: 18.5%
- Extremely Unfair Underpayment: 10.2%
- Slightly Unfair Underpayment: 9.6%
- Somewhat Unfair Underpayment: 8.3%
- Very Unfair Underpayment: 7.7%
- Slightly Unfair Overpayment: 3.6%
- Somewhat Unfair Overpayment: 2.7%
- Very Unfair Overpayment: 1.8%
- Extremely Unfair Overpayment: 1.2%

## Methodology

- Mode: Verasight panel recruited via random address-based sampling, random person-to-person text messaging, and dynamic online targeting
- Population: United States adults
- Field dates: 2025-08-13 → 2025-08-18
- Base (unweighted): 1,000
- Margin of error: +/- 3.1%
- Module: Verasight JSM Omnibus Survey
- Sponsor: Verasight
- Weight variable: weight
- Weighting targets: age, race/ethnicity, sex, income, education, region, metropolitan status

## Source

- Canonical question URL: [https://reports.verasight.io/r/jsm-2025#fairness-of-a-62192-salary](https://reports.verasight.io/r/jsm-2025#fairness-of-a-62192-salary)

## Citation

Verasight JSM Omnibus Survey, fielded August 13-18, 2025, N=1,000 United States adults, +/- 3.1%.

Canonical question URL: [https://reports.verasight.io/r/jsm-2025#fairness-of-a-62192-salary](https://reports.verasight.io/r/jsm-2025#fairness-of-a-62192-salary)