My 2 cents...

I have a geography suggestion: delineate by state rather than region.
Even within a state there can be significant variation, but in general
there is more continuity than by region.
  Example - I live now in Colorado, recently coming back home from
Wyoming.  These two states have nothing economically in common despite
contiguous location.  Wyoming has lower cost of living, no state income
tax, etc.  Colorado has generally higher salaries, but much higher cost
of living, more taxes, currently poor economy, etc.  I make a good deal
more money on paper, but took a standard of living cut in actuality by
moving to Colorado.

The following is a much more subjective assessment leading to a
suggestions.  Position titles mean almost nothing, so it would make more
sense to me to chose position categories rather than titles (e.g.
manager, compliance officer), and then require people to further chose
(with multiple responses allowed) what they do in their positions.
  At my last job, I was in a category of Cultural Resources Specialist.
My former employer had the excellent plan of then assigning titles based
on what we really did, in my case Reference Archivist.  At my current
post, they don't give separate titles to actually relate what one does,
so my title is Office Management Assistant.  Not even close to relaying
the records and archival (with a dash of history) work I actually do,
and makes me sound like the copy girl who occasionally answers the phone

For possibly interesting comparison purposes, can you just transform
what the Australians did?
http://www.rmaa.com.au/docs/branches/nat/pub/SalSurvey2005/index.cfm.

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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 10:31 AM
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Subject: 2005 Records Management Salary Survey

The 2005 Records Management Salary Survey is under development and
should be available next week. I need from you some suggestions for
possible questions and other choices for questions. What have you always
wondered about?

As always the information will be made available to everyone free of
charge after the survey is complete.

This salary survey will ask gender. In previous years I have been asked
to include that for comparisons.

I would appreciate your assistance in the following areas:

Positions - what are the titles that should appear under What is your
present position?
We need some industry break downs (non-profit, corporation, government
etc)

Geography - We should break up the geography as we are asked about
comparisons in the US. We will also include Canada, Australia and other
nations.

Education, certifications and professional activity will all be
included.
If you would like to see anything else please let me know.

We are limiting this to RIM professionals this year. I will have an
archivist category but I will not heavily advertise there.

REMEMBER - the more responses we get for the survey the better the data
will be so I will even take mailed copies and do the data entry myself.

This will be done on Survey Monkey and should appear by next week. Email
me with your suggestions.

Thanks
Raymond K. Cunningham, Jr. CRM, CA
Manager of Records Services
University of Illinois Foundation
Urbana, IL

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