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Frequently Asked Questions
Input Questionnaire
Job
Descriptions
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The PPA Salary & Benefits Survey has been commissioned by the PPA to provide member organisations with current, sector-specific information on rates for pay for selected key benchmark postions. Information in this survey will give participants invaluable and objective insight into pay rates and benefit packages in a highly competitive sector.
The input information will be thoroughly validated and processed by Alan Jones & Associates, a long-established salary and benefit survey provider. The survey results will be aggregated and anonymous.
The PPA Salary & Benefits Survey is running for the first time for pay and benefits information as at 1st August with the results available in October. PPA are paying the costs of the launch survey, no participant will be charged for taking part in this first edition.
This first survey will cover a range of selected benchmark roles across several key functions:
Benchmarking data to be included in the first survey will include basic pay, actual bonus, on-target bonus, commission, car allowance with additional analysis by product category, company turnover, job holder location.
The PPA Salary & Benefits Survey is open to any association member organisation that provides their own information for inclusion in the survey. Every participant will have access to:
The benefits questionnaire is online and is available to any organisation taking part in the salary survey. The benefits section of the PPA Salary & Benefits Survey covers:
As with the salary section of the survey, participants must submit their benefits information to access the benefits feedback.
The survey is strictly confidential and participant-only - only those contributing their own data to the survey will receive access to the full results. PPA will receive aggregated and summarised information based on the survey results but will not have access to the raw input data nor to the full survey output. PPA may use the information to provide useful feedback to the participants and wider membership, e.g. headline trends and movements across the sector, year on year developments (once historic data exists), key themes and challenges, high-level commentary.
The analysis is statistical showing the feedback in medians, quartiles, deciles and averages job by job. We ensure anonymity including following specific rules on minimum matching, i.e. the median on a job is only shown where there are three companies reporting, quartiles with four or five reporting and deciles with six. We check matches for outweighing and if one participant has more than 25% of the job holders their input will be reduced. We validate all input data and we may contact participants to discuss any concerns. We may remove information which is anomalous. Participants receive a customised copy of the survey analysis, i.e. feeding back their own position vs the group for their matches. Names of contributing organisations are available in a list of participants but not in the survey analysis. If this is a problem for your company, please contact us.
Benefits information is analysed and presented statistically with some additional anonymised comments made by participants.
Alan Jones & Associates is committed to the safe handling of the confidential salary and benefits information it receives and processes. The privacy and security of any data supplied by clients is extremely important to us. Our salary surveys provide anonymised, aggregated and analysed feedback of salary information providing participants with objective market pay data for use in pay policy formulation, benchmarking, recruitment, etc. In our surveys we do not identify the individual companies providing data to us against any pay information. The organisations taking part in a survey are shown by company name and only in a list. Alan Jones & Associates is registered with Data Protection. All data submitted to Alan Jones & Associates is held in the UK; we do not use third party contractors.
If you have any queries regarding this survey, please contact us on 01600 716916 or via e-mail clients@alan-jones.co.uk.