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Data Integrity & Safe Harbor
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Empsight Compensation Surveys
Safe Harbor and Reporting Guidelines
Confidentiality, Reporting Thresholds, and Data Validation
Careful attention is paid to preserving the confidentiality of data reported by participating organizations. Empsight follows the Safe Harbor Guidelines when publishing its compensation surveys.
These guidelines include:
Safe Harbor Guidelines
Age
The data that we use is at least three months old
Participants
We use a minimum of five companies who participate and provide the data (which is aggregated and anonymized) for the statistical analysis that we use to prepare our industry-leading survey reports.
Weighting
No individual participant company's information represents more than twenty-five percent (25%) on a weighted basis of each published statistic. No single company is identified with any specific information.
In addition, the following standards are applied to the compensation reports:
Reporting Guidelines
No Base Salary, Incentive, Total Cash or other information is reported where there are fewer than 5 primary participants, regardless of the number of incumbents reported
Where there are 5 primary participants and a minimum of 5 reported incumbents, the Average (Mean) is reported
Median is provided where there are a minimum of 5 primary participants and 5 incumbents reported
25th and 75th Percentile values are provided where there are a minimum of 5 primary participants and 5 incumbents reported
10th and 90th Percentile values are provided where there are a minimum of 10 primary participants and 10 incumbents reported
To preserve confidentiality, we do not report the Highest or Lowest values
Where the minimum values for reporting purposes are not reached, the data are suppressed and are not recorded in the report.
The overall pattern of reported data is analyzed based on the returned questionnaires to validate both the quality of job matching and the accuracy of data provided to us.
Data Review and Validation
In certain cases, participants are contacted during the analysis process to clarify elements of their submissions and some submitted information may be revised as a result.
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