Wage & Policies Report

The survey is open for participation in April.

The Wage & Policies Report is available in the fall.

It is free to participate in the Wage & Policies Survey. The full Wage & Policies Report, however, costs $400 for members and $600 for future members. Companies who have participated in the Wage & Policies Survey receive a discount on their purchase price. You do not have to be a Chamber member to participate or to receive a discount.

You do not need to complete the survey all at once. You can save your unique edit link (the URL that opens when you start participating in the survey) or retrieve your edit link from us. You can revisit the survey to provide information while it is open during the month of April.

All required questions are indicated as such. Please complete as much of the survey as possible, as your contributions enable us to provide a more comprehensive overview of the labor market in Lancaster County.

Positions that do not have at least 3 responses from participating employers are marked as insufficient in the final report.

Your participation is valuable to the broader community!

Your unique edit link is the URL that is generated when you start participating in the survey. We recommend saving or bookmarking this link for easy reference as you move in and out of the survey. If you need to retrieve your edit link, please reach out to our Data Management Intern at wbintern@lancasterchamber.com or to Ashley Glensor, Programs & Workforce Strategies Manager, at aglensor@lancasterchamber.com.

While your exact position may not be listed, there is a good chance that the responsibilities may be included under another title. Please refer to the job description document (link) to see if there are any matching job descriptions based on role responsibilities.

If the position title is unavailable, please submit your requested position to the Chamber team for future consideration. We examine the positions every year and make decisions on survey inclusion based on how many companies are reporting and/or requesting those positions.

We evaluate the survey every year. We remove a position from the survey after three years without 3 or more companies reporting on it.

Your data is stored in the Chamber’s encrypted system. Your information is only used in the aggregate, and the data you provide is separated from your company during processing. You may opt out of having your name included in our list of participating companies at the end of the Wage & Policies Report.

No. In the survey, you can indicate whether the pay you are entering for the position is annual or hourly by entering 1 or 2, respectively. All pay will be converted to an annual rate in the final report to provide a yearlong outlook on the position’s earnings.

Companies report on the following information for each role:

• The Lowest Actual Base Pay
• The Highest Actual Base Pay
• The Average Actual Base Pay (Weighted)
• The Minimum Rate – Rate Range
• The Maximum Rate – Rate Range

The Wage & Policies Report provides averages of the reported data in each category listed above.

We only provide information if 3 or more companies report on it. Employers may only report on a few of the data points for each role. We always encourage participating companies to complete as much as possible to prevent insufficient information!

Base pay is the hourly rate that you pay an employee. An employee’s base rate may be the same as their regular rate; however, an employee’s regular rate may be higher than the base rate because the regular rate includes calculations on commissions, bonuses, piece-rate earnings, etc.

When an employee’s base pay is different from their regular rate, the regular rate is used – for example – when hourly employees work overtime or use sick leave.

Please reach out to our Data Management Intern at wbintern@lancasterchamber.com or to Ashley Glensor, Programs & Workforce Strategies Manager, at aglensor@lancasterchamber.com.