2008 Employee Compensation Study

Compensation Survey FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION is Friday, February 22! Do not miss this opportunity to participate in the bi-annual survey. Calling all Canadian companies -- We need you to participate in order to have a Canadian breakout included in this report.

If you’re like most distribution firms, you’re running lean these days with just enough personnel to get by. Hiring and keeping good employees is essential to the profitability of your business, especially in today’s economy.

When it comes to hiring employees, you must consider your overall employee compensation plan–not just your wage scales, but your benefits package as well–in comparison to others in distribution.

Furthermore, you’re not just competing for the best employees with other ISA distributors, you’re also up against all the distributors in your immediate locale.

The 2008 Employee Compensation Study will provide a detailed review of compensation and benefit programs for approximately 2,500 distributors from over 35 distribution organizations. Due to the extensive sample in this study, there will be a wide range of information available on compensation, not only for your industry, but also for 22 sales volume categories and over 100 geographic areas (including 50 metro markets).

Participating firms will receive a wealth of information on topics and benefit programs such as:
• Executive compensation
• Employee compensation
• Sales commission plans
• Inside/counter sales policies
• Health care
• Retirement income
• Paid time off and vacation
• Schedule

The report will come in two sections.  The Detailed ISA Industry Report (Volume I) will contain information on the ISA companies taking part in the survey and is being offered free of charge to all ISA Home offices regardless of participation.

The Cross-Industry Report (Volume II) takes advantage of the large sample of firms who participated to provide information at its most detailed level by geographic area (down to specific cities) and by volume category. This report will be available on a CD in an excel format. This format allows you to quickly access only the information you will need and will be much more user friendly. For all companies who participate in the surveyhave the opportunity to purchase Volume II at the nominal fee of $50. All other ISA companies who did not participate may purchase this report at a fee of $150.

You can click here to download the questionnaire in Microsoft Excel format. They are due back by Feb. 22, 2008. Survey results will be available in April.

You can learn more by downloading this informational PDF.

Special offer to all Canadian members!

Don’t miss this opportunity to receive the most comprehensive
compensation data available in distribution!