[bozoUser]

> “Opportunities for professional growth” is the clear winner, appearing 13 percentage points above even “salary”.

Ofcourse professional growth is the winner as more often than not is directly proportional to one`s salary.

As a s/w engg. "professional growth" is a hybrid of bunch of things - learning new tech, Cloud knowledge(k8s, docker etc.), and well summarized in the lines below by the author:

> In short, software engineers of all stripes want, more than anything else, to develop their abilities as engineers. They want it more than pay, more than work/life balance, and more than autonomy.

[standardUser]

I strongly agree - to me the term "professional growth" is synonymous with higher income and greater future employment opportunities. Not with learning a new framework or language.

[itronitron]

'opportunities for professional growth' is also a signal for 'growing company' and 'lower risk of layoffs' which helps explain why it is a winner