Benefits and Compensation

Finding Market Data for Tough-To-Find Jobs

By Sharon McKnight, CCP, SPHR

Trying to find market data for some jobs may seem a little like searching for a needle in a haystack—tedious, time-consuming, and marginally successful. Often, the problem isn’t that no data is available but how we look for it.

We sometimes fall into the trap of thinking that every job title in our organization should be included in every salary database. That’s not a very realistic view and it’s time to face the ugly truth—they’re not and they probably never will be.

That doesn’t mean that a hefty percentage of your job titles can’t be found in most salary databases. It just means that not all job titles are common to all organizations so the data for them may not be obvious in every salary survey.

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