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Arts Cleveland: Wage & Benefit Survey

This questionnaire contains the following sections: Organization; Compensation & Employment Practices; Impacts of the Economic Environment; Paid Time-Off Practices; Insurance Benefits; Executive Director/CEO Profile, and Compensation. 

Before starting to complete this questionnaire, please print out and refer to two documents with links in this survey's cover note: 1)  Wage-Benefit Jobs, Glossary, for a list of all jobs and job descriptions for use in this survey, as well as definitions of key terms, and 2) Wage-Benefit Compensation Instructions for guidelines on how to complete the survey's final section.  

Survey responses will be strictly confidential.  Data from this survey will be reported only in the aggregate.  All information entered and returned via Survey Monkey will remain confidential and accessible only to a third-party researcher. 

Please submit your answers by Friday, November 16, 2018.  If you have questions about the survey, please contact project researcher David Pankratz at dpankratz@pittsburghartscouncil.org  Thank you for your participation!      
1.ORGANIZATION
2.Operating expenses for current fiscal year: (i.e., expenditures necessary to support the administrative and service functions of organization), in $$:
3.How many regular, full-time equivalent (FTE) employee does your organization employ as of October 1, 2018?  (Do not include temporary employees, contractors, or volunteers). 
4.What is the beginning date of your current fiscal year?  (MM/DD/YY)
5.Does your organization have:
6.Current number of employees:
7.COMPENSATION & EMPLOYMENT PRACTICES:  Which best describes your organization's regular, full-time work week?
8.By what percentage (%), on average, do you expect salaries paid by your organization to increase during the next twelve months?
9.What method describes your salary increase practices?  (Please check all that apply).
10.Does your organization offer incentive pay or bonuses to any full-time employees?  (Please check all that apply).
11.Are your employees given the option of taking compensatory time off instead of being paid for overtime hours worked?
12.Apart from after any probationary or introductory period, when are your employees reviewed? 
13.In which ways does your organization attract and/or retain talent?  (Please check all that apply).
14.IMPACTS OF THE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT: In the year ahead, do you expect your organization to change the number of full-time employees?
15.In the year ahead, do you expect your organization to change the number of part-time employees?
16.In the year ahead, do you expect your organization to increase its dollar contribution toward employee medical insurance, decrease it, or keep it about the same per enrolled employee?  
17.In the year ahead, do you expect your organization to increase retirement  plan contributions, decrease them, or keep them about the same per enrolled employee?
18.PAID TIME-OFF PRACTICES: How many days of paid time-off (PTO), vacation, and sick time does your organization offer to full-time employees annually?
19.How many days of paid time-off, vacation, and sick time does your organization offer to part-time employees annually?
20.Do exempt and non-exempt employees in your organization receive different amounts of time-off benefits?
21.Does your organization offer other types of time-off to employees?  (Please check all that apply).
22.INSURANCE BENEFITS: Does your organization offer group health insurance as a benefit for regular full-time employees?
23.If you answered NO to Q. 22, proceed to the Retirement Benefits section.  Which part-time employees with your organization are eligible for health insurance benefits?  Specify Yes or No and eligibility requirements.
24.Are domestic partners considered dependents for the purposes of health insurance?
25.What is the waiting period for new employees' health insurance benefits?  Please specify days, months, etc.
26.If your organization has a Cafeteria plan, indicate below which types of plans employees can choose.  Check all that apply.   
27.Please specify the %'s and amounts your organization pays for employees' and dependents' health insurance.  If employees/dependents pay the entire cost, enter 0.  If the insurance is not offered, enter N/A.
28.RETIREMENT BENEFITS: Does your organization provide a retirement benefit for regular full-time staff, yes or no?  If NO, skip the rest of this section and proceed to Executive Director/CEO Profile.
29.Are part-time employees eligible for retirement benefits?  Please answer Yes or No and provide figures requested. 
30.Which of these describes your organization's retirement benefit for regular full-time staff?  (Please check all that apply). 
31.How many of your employees participate in the retirement plan?
32.How is your organization's retirement plan funded?
33.Over the next five years (from 2019 to 2023), how many of your organization's full-time employees do you expect to retire?
34.Over the next five years (from 2019 to 2023), what % of your current full-time employees do you expect to retire?
35.EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR/CEO PROFILE   Does your organization employ an Executive Director/CEO?  Answer Yes or No.  If NO, please skip the rest of this section. 
36.Does your Executive Director/CEO have an employment contract?
37.What is the gender of your organization's Executive Director/CEO?
38.What is the age of your Executive Director/CEO?
39.What is the racial identity of your Executive Director/CEO?
40.For how many years has your Executive Director/CEO worked in their current job at your organization?
41.Did your Executive Director/CEO work as the Executive Director/CEO in other nonprofit organizations prior to their current job?
42.What is the highest level of education attained by your Executive Director/CEO
43.Does your organization have a formal, non-emergency transition plan for the Executive Director/CEO position?
44.Does your organization expect to have an Executive Director/CEO transition within the next five years?   
45.IF your Executive Director/CEO has worked in her or his current job at your organization for five years or less, how did your organization locate this person to fill the ED/CEO position at the time of hire?  (Please checkk all that apply).
46.Has the board of directors formally (or a designated board committee) approved the current salary of the Executive Director/CEO?
47.What kind of information does your organization's board of directors consider to determine reasonable compensation for the Executive Director/CEO?  (Please check all that apply).
48.COMPENSATION   This question asks for specific compensation information for up to 10 employees in your organization.  Before starting this question, be sure to print out the two documents linked to in the cover e-mail for this survey: a) Jobs/Job Descriptions, and b) Compensation Instructions.  The first document provides you with codes to answer several questions below, while the other provides instructions to complete the questions below.  To summarize, In the first textbox, fill in these pieces of information for one position (e.g., Development Director): 1) Job Code, 2) Position Title, 3) Hourly Pay Rate, 4) Bonus Eligibility, 5) Bonus Paid in Past 12 Months, 6) # of Employees Managed, 7) Minimum Education/Credential Required, 8) Gender, 9) Racial Identity, and 10) Number of Years in this Position.  Then do the same, one Position at a time, for, e.g., Executive Director/CEO, then Human Resources Director, then Education Director, and so on.
49.Thank you for taking this survey.  Any other information you'd like to share?