APPENDIX B - METHODOLOGY
OVERVIEW Certified Compensation Professionals at SCS conducted the market analysis according to the practices as recommended by WorldatWork. Founded in the U.S. in 1955, WorldatWork is a nonprofit professional association dedicated to knowledge and leadership in the areas of compensation and total rewards. BENCHMARK JOBS First, benchmark jobs are identified for comparison. The benchmarking process identifies jobs that are common throughout all industries. Examples include jobs such as administrative assistant, accountant, engineer, registered nurse, electrician, etc. Benchmark jobs typically have broad usage within the relevant market in order to allow for the application of statistically significant sampling methods. Benchmark comparisons for hundreds of classified jobs are utilized in this report. A complete listing is provided in Appendix D. SALARY SURVEYS AND THE RELEVANT LABOR MARKET Once benchmark jobs have been identified, salary information for those jobs is obtained through surveys from third-party compensation survey providers. A review of data for the relevant labor market ensures accurate comparisons across different survey providers. SCS defines the relevant labor market as public and private employers within the South Central and Southeastern regions, preferably in service-providing industries. States used for the market analysis include Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas.
To maintain consistency in the collection and analysis of data, the same survey providers have been used over the years as follows.
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