Pay Surveys
Another part of building a pay system is surveying the pay that other organizations provide for similar jobs. A pay survey is a collection of data on compensation rates for workers performing similar jobs in other organizations. An employer may use surveys conducted by other organizations, or he may decide to conduct his own survey.
Using Prepared Pay Surveys Many different surveys are available from a variety of sources. The Internet provides a large number of pay survey sources and data on-line. However, use of these sources requires caution because their accuracy and completeness may not be verifiable. Properly using surveys from other sources requires that certain questions be addressed;
Participants: Is the survey a realistic sample of those employers with whom the organization competes for employees?
Broad-based: Is the survey balanced so that organizations f varying sizes, industries, and locales are included?
Timeliness: How about the data’s effectiveness (determined by the data when the survey was conducted)?
Methodology: How is the survey established, and how qualified are those who conducted it?
Job matches: Does it contain job summaries so that appropriate matches to job descriptions can be made?
Developing a Pay Survey If the needed pay information is not available, the employer can undertake his own pay survey. Employers with comparable jobs should be selected and those employers considered to be ”representative” should also be surveyed.
Jobs to be surveyed also must be determined. Because not all jobs in all organizations can be surveyed, people designing the pay survey should select jobs with common job elements that can be easily compared and represent a broad range of jobs. Key or benchmark jobs are especially important ones to include. It is also advisable to provide brief job descriptions for jobs surveyed in order to ensure more accurate matches. For executive-level jobs, data on total compensation (base pay and bonuses) is often gathered as well.
In the next phase of designing the pay survey, managers decide what information is needed for various jobs. Information such as starting pay, base pay, overtime rate, vacation and holiday pay policies, and bonuses all can be included in a survey. However, requesting too much information may discourage survey returns.
The results of the pay survey are usually available to those participating in the survey in order to gain their cooperation. Most survey specify confidentiality, and data are summarized to assure anonymity.
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