Survey and Market Research

Project Name

SGP: Salary Survey

Client
Strategic Growth Partners
Project Type
Survey research
Timeframe
2009

The SGP Compensation Survey was designed to gather compensation data to assist companies with human resource and payroll planning. Twenty-four companies participated in the survey (21 U.S. companies, 3 Canadian). Each company entered compensation data (salary, bonus, overtime, profit sharing) into an online form developed by Praxis Research. Compensation information was aligned with primary functions. Data were grouped geographically and by company size for comparative purposes.

Each company received an individual report; SGP’s Executive Director also received overall reports for Canada and the United States. Reports included scatter plots, bar graphs, tables of means and medians (that compared each company with other companies in their region, size range and country) as well as pie charts displaying the distribution of salary, profit-sharing, bonus and overtime pay. The survey will be repeated every two years.