Here's what our first FAIRPAY in-house survey client has to say about our work with them
"Bob and Rita – For the first time in the history of our very small and unique field – nonprofits providing support and services to people with severe vision loss – we now have a national compensation and benefits survey for executives and certified vision rehabilitation professionals. The depth and breadth of the survey is astounding, but even more astounding was the way you went about doing your work – each participant received personal service, no issue was too big or too small, and even the most mundane question or concern was handled as if it was the first time the issue had ever surfaced. I recently attended a national conference where I received Kudos for the “great job” I did with the survey. Unfortunately, they missed the mark because the only “great job” I did was hiring you!"
- Roxann Mayros, CEO, VisionServe Alliance
Customized In-house Fairpay Compensation and Benefits Surveys for Multi-Office National or Regional Nonprofits
We also produce regional nonprofit compensation and benefits surveys and inhouse surveys for organizations outside of northern California.
In 2010 we produced a member survey for VisionServe Alliance, a national association of organizations that provide a diversity of services to people who are blind or severely visually impaired, based in St. Louis.
The parameters used in the Fairpay Survey can be customized to suit your organizations in whatever way you like. For example, if you want to report compensation by annual operating budget, we will jointly decide on the budget category ranges based on the data reported by your participating organizations so that we get a good sample in each budget category. Benefits and policy questions can also be added, deleted and modified so that we collect the data that you think will be most useful and interesting to your affiliates.
Each survey is customized with respect to the number and type of jobs reported. You choose the jobs for which your organizations need data, whether just a few or over one hundred.
Unlike the Fairpay Surveys conducted for the nonprofit sector in a specific geographic area (like the annual northern California survey), compensation data would be submitted from all over the country. We have conducted this type of custom survey before using a factor from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that measures the pay levels in specific localities. This allows us to adjust data from different parts of the country so that it can all be reasonably compared, and we have found this to be a straightforward and effective way to address the issue.
A typical timeline for these projects covers 5 - 6 months, beginning with discussion about your particular requirements so that we can customize the survey instrument. The data collection phase tends to take around two months, and then it will take another two months or so for us to complete the report. Publicizing the survey to potential participants is usually done by the sponsoring organization, though we do provide weekly reports of everyone who has responded to date so that the sponsor can continue to effectively encourage participants throughout the data collection phase.
Our estimate of the cost for a project of this type surveying up to 25 jobs and including benefits is in the neighborhood of $9,000 for a survey of up to 200 participants, incrementally higher by $10 for each participant over 200 so that a survey with 300 participants would cost $10,000, a survey with 400 participants could cost $11,000, etc. Please note that this is a just a preliminary estimate. Depending on the benefits and policies questions you want to ask, we may be able to simplify the survey somewhat and lower the cost accordingly. A survey covering more jobs would raise the cost somewhat.
The geographic-specific nature of this survey may affect how you want to present the results to participants. If you want to provide participants with a report that has compensation data adjusted for their location so that it is immediately useful to them, it would require an additional step in the process and would raise the price somewhat, probably around $500 - $1,000 total.
For more information about our In-house surveys, contact Bob Orser at bob@nonprofitdoctor.com or call him at 541-929-7169.
