Most of the studies regarding job satisfaction aim the analysis of the influence which some internal factors -related to the organisation and its management -have on the "level of happiness" of the employees, as job satisfaction has been named. However, we cannot exclude the influence some factors outside the organization, macroeconomics, which may modify the employees' spirit and therefore their satisfaction regarding their work. In this paperwork, we analyzed the way a series of external variables influence the employees' job satisfaction, variables which are also used in other surveys that analyze the relationship between job satisfaction and work quality (Van