Compensation surveys enable you to compare your basic remuneration packages against published data for your industry. Using this feature you can record as many compensation surveys as you require, map those surveys to each job and position in your enterprise, and analyze the data to understand how compensation within your enterprise compares with trends in the industry.

When you enter the details of a compensation survey using the Compensation Surveys window, you must enter a compensation survey identifier. The identifier filters the survey lines to display only the information relevant to the survey you have specified, which helps you enter data more quickly and efficiently.

You use the identifier as the two character prefix to the codes of each of the lookup values you use in the Compensation Surveys window. The identifier you enter on the Compensation Surveys window points to the two character prefix you added to the lookup codes, and the application displays only those lookups that are relevant to the identifier.

Lookup Types for the Compensation Survey Window

You set up the values for the fields in the Compensation Survey window using the following user-extensible Lookup Types:

• SURVEY_JOB_NAME

• SURVEY_REGION

• SURVEY_SENIORITY

• COMPANY_SIZE

• INDUSTRY

• SURVEY_AGE

• SURVEY_COMPANY

To display the jobs and values specific to each survey, use the compensation survey identifier as the prefix of the lookup codes for these Lookup Types except Survey_Company. For example, you can use the prefix DB at the beginning of all lookup codes you want to display for Dun and Bradstreet surveys.

For information about user-extensible lookup types, see: Adding Lookup Types and Values