FIGURE B.5 Work Settings of I/O Psychologists Most I/O psychologists work in institutions of higher education. Forty-one percent of the members of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology work in colleges and universities. Next come I/O psychologists who work as consultants to organizations (22 percent). Another substantial percentage (17 percent) are employed by large private corporations, such as insurance companies and consumer-product manufacturers. Public organizations, such as government agencies, employ half as many I/O psychologists as private organizations do (9 percent versus 17 percent).

Source: Data from Khanna & Medsker (2007).