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  July 21, 2005 at 02:00PM ET

Using salary surveys ought to be simple. But, easy on-line access to an abundance of free and low-cost salary data and benchmarks places pressure on HR professionals to know what surveys are applicable, relevant, and statistically valid.

The risk of miscalculating market pay rates runs high! If you pay too much for a position, you might strain your compensation budget; if you pay too little, your company can lose its top talent.

To avoid these traps, you need to know what criteria to look at, what data sources you can trust, and how to benchmark salary surveys against your organization.

Join IOMA’s panel of compensation experts and learn how you can mine salary surveys for the crucial information you need to make educated HR decisions in your organization.

In just 90 minutes, you’ll find out:

• How to use salary surveys to your company’s advantage
• How to make a good match between a survey and your organization
• What specific data you should be looking at
• How to determine whether a salary survey is statistically valid in general and, more importantly, if it is applicable to your company
• Pluses and minuses of online surveys
• What to do when employees compare online salaries to their own
• Legal issues to consider with some salary surveys
• How to match your own organization’s job titles and descriptions with those found in salary surveys

Plus, get answers to all your questions on surveys answered in the live Q&A session following the discussion.

Featured Faculty:

Cheryl Aldrich
Senior Consultant
Palmer & Cay