Analyzing Salary Surveys

Congratulations!

You have completed ERI DLC Course 73: Analyzing Salary Surveys.

You should now be able to:

  • Specify the elements of a compensation strategy
  • Define market pricing and market rate
  • Identify the characteristics of a good salary survey
  • Recognize the Federal Trade Commission Survey Safe Harbor Guidelines
  • Identify the different sources of salary survey data and their pros and cons
  • Determine the steps needed to conduct your own survey
  • Specify the role of benchmark jobs and how to select them
  • Define how to present salary survey results using job title, frequency distribution, graph, or maturity curve
  • Recognize common statistics terms used in salary surveys
  • Specify the different kinds of information a salary survey may provide
  • Identify ways to analyze salary survey sources for validity and reliability
  • Specify how to develop a compensation plan from a salary survey