Important Benchmarking Tools

Wage & Salary Surveys

National & Regional Available

Pay Trend Surveys

National & Regional Available

Personnel Practices and Benefits Survey

Holiday Survey

2010 Survey Data Collection Timeline

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If your company is interested in purchasing a survey report, please contact Gina Whalen at 570-450-6893 or gwhalen@maea.biz.  Member companies that place an order will immediately be e-mailed a PDF file of the survey report.  Non-member companies must pre-pay before receiving the survey report.

WAGE & SALARY

Regional Wage & Salary Survey

This survey includes data from companies throughout Schuylkill, Luzerne, Carbon, Lackawanna, and Lower Northumberland counties. Survey data is broken out by company size, geographic location, industry type, and union status.

Data is provided for 135 “Benchmark” job classifications in the following categories:

·               Administrative & Office Support  

·               Engineering, Scientific, and Technical Positions

·               Production, Maintenance, & Service Positions

·               Supervisory, Management, and Professional Positions

Survey Pricing:

Member companies who participate in this survey:  *FREE

Non-participating member price: $160/section. $500/Set.

Non member price: $300 per section. $1,000/Set.

*2010 Data collection period: August 2 – September 10

National Wage & Salary Survey

This survey is a compilation of data from multiple associations. It contains data on 150 Managerial, Non-Exempt and Production benchmark jobs. These include managerial and professional jobs; office, clerical and technical jobs; and production and maintenance jobs. Data is from all sizes of organizations and is broken out by city. Data includes base and pay ranges.

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Survey Pricing:

Member companies who participated in MAEA’s Regional Wage & Salary Survey: *$200

Non-participating member price:.$400

Non member price: $800

*2010 Data collection period: August 2 – September 10

PAY TRENDS

2009/2010 Regional Pay Trend Survey

Our member companies reported their actual wage and salary adjustments for the period between 7/01/08 to 6/30/09 and their projected average pay adjustments between 7/01/09 to 6/30/10. 

Data is provided for each of the following:

·                     Non-Union Hourly Production, Maintenance and Service Positions

·                     Union Hourly Production, Maintenance and Service Positions

·                     Non-Exempt Office, Clerical and Technical Positions

·                     Exempt Supervisory, Managerial and Professional Positions

·                     Executive/Officer Position

Data is also separated by Manufacturing and Non-Manufacturing.

Survey Pricing:

Member companies who participated in this survey: *FREE

Non-participating member price:  $15

Non member price:  $30

*2010 Data collection period: July 1 – July 30

2009/2010 National Pay Trends Survey

This 97 page report covers changes in employer pay related practices during the period from 7/01/08 to 6/30/09, along with “best estimates” of employers pay related changes for the period from 7/01/09 to 6/30/10. Employer input was collected between June 2009 and September 2009.

This National Survey includes information regarding national average pay increases, formal range changes, and average promotional increases by region, industry segment, specific industry, all industries by location, manufacturing by location and non-manufacturing by location. This year’s survey covers the actual and projected pay practices of 4,525 U.S. employers.  Companies who participated in our regional annual wage adjustment survey, have their responses included in this National Report.

A variety of “break out” reports are included to meet the diverse data requirements of participants for compensation planning. These reports group pay increase, formal range adjustment, promotional increase and short-term variable/bonus award data based upon geographic region, industry segment and/or specific industry in relation to employee job categories. Following are summaries of the applicable job categories, industry segments, specific industries covered and definitions associated with the reports.

Survey Pricing:

Member Companies Who Participated in this Survey: *$40

Non-participating Member Price:  $55

Non-Member Price:  $100

*2010 Data collection period: July 1 – July 30

PERSONNEL PRACTICES & EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

Personnel Practices and Benefits Report

This comprehensive report presents statistics on benefits and personnel practices of regional companies and encompasses key topics of interest to Human Resource professionals. This 51 page survey documents trends in policies and benefit practices in six major categories:

� Compensation

·                     Pay Administration

·                     Incentive Systems

·                     Performance Appraisal

·                     Paid Time Off

·                     Traditional Vacation Time

·                     Holidays

·                     Military Pay

·                     Jury Duty

·                     Bereavement/Funeral Pay

·                     Personal Days

·                     Paid Time Off (PTO) Bank

·                     Sick Day Plans

·                     Other Paid Time Consideration

·                     Part-Time Benefits

� Working Conditions

·                     Work Hours

·                     Absenteeism and Tardiness

·                     Leave of Absence

·                     Safety

·                     Travel and Automobile Policy

� Health and Welfare Benefits

·                     Section 105 and 125 (Flexible Spending Accounts) Plans, and HRAs ..

·                     Medical Insurance

·                     Indemnity

·                     HMO Plans

·                     PPO/POS Plans

·                     Prescription Drug Program

·                     Dental Insurance

·                     Vision Care Insurance

� Retirement Benefits

·                     Retiree Benefits

·                     401(k) Plans.

� Recruitment, Training and Development

·                     Recruitment and Selection Practices

·                     Development Programs

·                     Tuition Reimbursement

� Employee Relations

·                     Human Resources

·                     Employee Communications

·                     Pre-retirement Planning Program

·                     Health and Wellness Programs

·                     On-Boarding (Orientation)

·                     Discharge Policies/Practices

·                     Severance Policies

Results are presented by employee classification:

·               Production, Maintenance, & Service (Union)

·               Production, Maintenance, & Service (Non-Union)

·               Nonexempt Clerical, & Technical

·               Exempt Supervisory, Managerial, & Professional

Member Companies Who Participated in this Survey:  *FREE

Non-participating Member Price:  $325

Non-Member Price:  $725

*2010 Data collection period: September 13 – October 29

HOLIDAY

The designated dates for holidays granted by employers for the coming year are provided.  This survey is free for all member companies and can be viewed at the following link:  Members Only Section

*2010 Data collection period: October 1 – October 29