How to choose a salary survey

Author: Janet Egan

Summary

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• Think about why a salary survey would be needed and what the organisation intends to do with the information.
• Find a salary survey provider that can be relied on to provide good quality data that meets the organisation's needs.
• Decide what roles the survey needs to cover and the ways in which the organisation will want to be able to break down the data.
• Consider the different reward elements that the organisation will want to benchmark.
• Ensure that the survey chosen is robust and reliable and will support the sorts of decisions that the organisation wants to make.
• Think about what taking part in the survey will involve and what the advantages or disadvantages of doing so might be.
• Be aware of the data outputs that the salary survey provider can produce and decide whether or not these will enable the organisation to do what it needs to do.