Wages and salary benchmarking information is critical for business members and a great opportunity for associations to deliver. If Associations don’t deliver this information who will?

Should Associations Provide Employee Compensation Benchmarking?

Associations are in existence for many reasons but fundamentally associations have evolved to deliver what people or businesses are unable to deliver as individuals.

This will incorporate a range of activities from industry representation and political lobbying down to delivering information and services to the group...

The reality is that fees are the backbone of success for any business delivering services to others.

Utilising Fees Surveys to identify and charge the correct fee can mean the difference between a highly profitable business, a profitable business or a business that goes broke.

In service industries the fees being charged are the only source of revenue for the business. This means that getting fees right is absolutely critical.

If the fees are too low profitability will be affected. If fees are too high it may impact on the amount of business being...

According to OECD Statistics for Full-time employees the global Gender Pay Gap Surveys data shows on average a 15.5% gap.

This includes nationally: USA 17.9%, UK 17.5%, Australia 18.0% and New Zealand 5.6%

The definition used is: Full-time employees. The gender wage gap is unadjusted and defined as the difference between male and female median wages divided by the male median wages.

Reference: OECD Data

Gender Pay Gap Surveys

Most industries globally still have no idea how they are performing...