April 16 is Deadline to Participate Free
in SNPA's 2010 Employee Benefits Survey

 

A Message from the Chairman of SNPA's Human Resources Committee:
 

SNPA MEMBERS ONLY
(Non-members: see box below for details about participation)

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS SURVEY

If your newspaper is independently-owned, use this link to the employee benefits questionnaire:

If your newspaper is owned by a corporate group (such as Community Newspaper Holdings, Gannett, Freedom, etc.), please ask your corporate office to complete the following questionnaire on behalf of all corporate holdings. The corporate office may complete a single questionnaire on behalf of all of its newspapers:

 

SALARY SURVEY

Download Salary Survey Questionnaire (paper version):

No cost to participate for member newspapers, if the questionnaire is submitted by April 16. Select the form below that applies to your circulation size and frequency of publication.

Download electronic version:

http://snpainfo.org/hr2010/salary/Survey2010.mdb

You must have Access software on your computer in order for this to work. If you do not have Microsoft Access on your computer, but would prefer to complete the survey electronically, contact Cindy Durham in the SNPA office: cindy@snpa.org.

  • Non-daily newspapers need to complete the paper questionnaire.

By Carol Puckett
Director of Human Resources
Denton Publishing Company
Denton, Texas

I would like to take this opportunity to urge publishers of every daily and non-daily paper in the South to participate in this year's SNPA Salary Survey, as well as the 2010 Survey of Employee Benefits. Both provide a wealth of information that will prove invaluable throughout the coming year.

The salary survey is an excellent tool for reviewing salaries and staffing levels. It is always helpful – during the best of years, as well as during challenging years – to be able to review this type of information and to compare your information to outside sources. The salary survey also gives you the resources to review bonus and sales commission structures, as well as position descriptions.

The SNPA salary survey can be a useful tool in conjunction with other salary studies to make sure that your salary ranges are in line with others in the industry. You can share the information gleaned from the survey with your department heads and provide them with a good base to use as they perform performance reviews and discuss any merit increases with their employees. Knowing where their salaries fall in comparison with other newspapers can be very valuable during these discussions. The survey also provides managers with data that allows them to review staffing levels as compared to other newspapers of similar size.

There is much knowledge and data to be gained from the SNPA salary survey, but it is only as good as the information gathered. We need the participation of everyone to ensure that we are getting a good representation of newspapers of all circulation sizes, both daily and non-daily.

In the right-hand column, are links to the survey questionnaire for members. (Links to questionnaires for non-members are available below). Be sure to select the questionnaire that is appropriate for your circulation size. Then, please route this questionnaire to the person in your organization who can properly complete and submit the information back to SNPA. Let's all work together to make this year's survey the best and most complete ever.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS SURVEY...
If your newspaper is independently-owned, below is a link to the 2010 questionnaire for the Employee Benefits Survey:

If your newspaper is owned by a corporate group (such as Community Newspaper Holdings, Gannett, Freedom, etc.), please ask your corporate office to complete the following questionnaire on behalf of all corporate holdings. The corporate office may complete a single questionnaire on behalf of all of its newspapers:

For non-members, the fee that you pay to take part in the salary survey also allows you to participate in the benefits study at no additional cost.

CONFIDENTIALITY OF YOUR DATA...
No one from SNPA 's Human Resources Committee will see the data that you submit. Questionnaires are submitted to Cindy Durham in the SNPA office and all information submitted is held in strict confidence. Newspaper participants are not identified in the published report.

SURVEY DETAILS...
The survey results will be provided in electronic format – at no cost – to newspapers (both daily and non-daily) that share data for the surveys. A link to a searchable PDF will be sent to publishers of all participating newspapers the first week of June 2010 – for the salary survey; the benefits survey report will be published June 15. A link also will be sent – at no cost – to the corporate offices that provide data for the surveys.

Hard copies of the salary survey results may be purchased for $75 a copy; hard copies of benefits survey are $25 each. To pre-order a printed book, contact Cindy Durham in the SNPA office: cindy@snpa.org.

COST TO PARTICIPATE...
There is no cost for SNPA members to participate in the study – if questionnaires are postmarked by April 16. After April 16, there will be a fee of $25 per survey to take part.

RETURNING YOUR QUESTIONNAIRE TO SNPA...
Your questionnaire should be mailed to the SNPA office at:

SNPA
Attn: Cindy Durham
3680 North Paachtree Road, Suite 300
Atlanta, GA 30341

If you are e-mailing an electronic questionnaire, please e-mail it to cindy_durham@bellsouth.net.

QUESTIONS?
Please contact Cindy Durham in the SNPA office with any questions about this survey: (404) 256-0444 or cindy@snpa.org.

NON-MEMBERS

Non-member newspapers that are published in the South (both daily and non-daily) are invited to participate in this survey. In addition, non-member newspapers with circulations over 200,000 may participate nationwide. The fee paid covers participation in both the salary and benefits surveys. (The South is defined as: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and West Virginia.)

Non-member fees to participate are: $100 (non-daily papers, plus dailies with circulations up to 10,000); $200 (daily circulation between 10,001 and 200,000); $300 (daily circulations over 200,000). For information about membership in SNPA (which would allow your paper to participate free in these surveys), click here.

 

Download Salary Survey Questionnaire (electronic version):

http://snpainfo.org/hr2010/salary/Survey2010.mdb

This file (designed for member newspapers) indicates that there is no cost to participate. There is no cost for members. Fees for non-members are based on average weekday circulation: daily papers with circulations up to 10,000 ($100 fee); 10,001-200,000 circulation, $200; over 200,000 circulation, $300. You must have Access software on your computer in order for this to work. If you do not have Microsoft Access on your computer, but would prefer to complete the survey electronically, contact Cindy Durham in the SNPA office: cindy@snpa.org.

  • Non-daily newspapers need to complete the paper questionnaire.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS SURVEY

If your newspaper is independently-owned, below is a link to the 2010 questionnaire for the Employee Benefits Survey:

If your newspaper is owned by a corporate group (such as Community Newspaper Holdings, Gannett, Freedom, etc.), please ask your corporate office to complete the following questionnaire on behalf of all corporate holdings. The corporate office may complete a single questionnaire on behalf of all of its newspapers:

For non-members, the fee that you pay to take part in the salary survey also allows you to participate in the benefits study at no additional cost.