One very important tool to help them determine market parity is the salary survey. Surveys can be as casual as a telephone call regarding a single job or as structured as a ten-page questionnaire sent to dozens of agencies. Surveys on support staff jobs are usually done locally because recruiting for those jobs is local. Professional or management job surveys are regional or national because that labor market is geographically dispersed. Agency size .
Big organizations tend to have more higher-paying jobs carrying more responsibility.
Small agencies often find data from bigger organizations useful, but the reverse is seldom true. Comparability of agency function or services . A nonprofit agency that serves a disadvantaged clientele and is funded by government grants may have little in common with one that serves the arts and is financed by private philanthropy. If so, you should survey all organizations that demand the same skills that your agency requires. Quality of salary management.