Personal, job-related, and environmental factors that might account for academic mid-level administrators' general job satisfaction were studied with a sample of 260 administrators at a large research university. Attention was directed to: personal characteristics (sex, age, number of years employed at the university), perceived job characteristics (autonomy, skill variety, task significance, feedback from the job itself, and opportunities to deal with others); perceived environment characteristics (perceptions of the degree to which the university's environment is cooperative, fair, caring, and characterized by the involvement of professional staff in decision making); and salary level. Based on multiple regression analyses, findings included: age and sex were significant predictors, with older administrators and female administrators more satisfied than younger or male administrators; three job characteristics were significantly associated with job satisfaction (autonomy, skill variety and amount of feedback from the job itself); perceiving the environment as fair was the only environmental characteristic not significantly associated with satisfaction, while perceiving a caring atmosphere at the institution was the most significant environmental predictor. (SW)