Ximena Larsen· Compensation Analyst, Lumen Biosciences
Posted in Pay Equity Research Council ·
The draft questionnaire for the 2027 benchmarking study is in the council folder. It has 46 questions, down from 58 last year, when a third of respondents abandoned it before the end. Median completion time in my test was 22 minutes.
I have cut most of the detail about the respondent's organisation and added a block of seven questions on what employers do after they find a gap: budget set aside, who approves adjustments, and whether employees are told.
Please read sections C and D in particular and send comments by the 12th. I also need two volunteers to pilot it with a colleague outside the council.
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Benefits Analyst, Silverline Media
Read it through. Question 23 asks for the remediation budget as a percentage of payroll, but many organisations, mine included, fund corrections out of the merit pool and could not answer. I would add an option for no separate budget and a follow-up on where the money came from. I can pilot it with our reward analyst next week.
Benefits Analyst, Silverline Media
Section C still mixes two things: whether an organisation has run an analysis, and whether it used regression. In last year's data 31 percent said they had run an analysis but could not describe the method. I would split it into two questions and offer plain descriptions of each approach, because respondents are often HR generalists and not analysts.
Amara LarsenNew
Benefits Analyst, Silverline Media
I am sorry to see the organisation questions cut so far. Without sector and headcount band we cannot produce the cuts members ask for; the most downloaded table last year was results by employer size. Could we keep those two and the region question? That adds perhaps a minute and saves the usefulness of the report.
Amara LarsenNew
Benefits Analyst, Silverline Media
Twenty-two minutes is still long. Abandonment last year was heaviest at the question asking for actual gap figures, which people had to go and look up. Could we send that question in advance with the invitation, so they arrive with the numbers? I will pilot with a colleague in our Dublin office, which tests the non-US wording too.
