Fornearly a decade, The eLearning Guild’s Global eLearning Salary &Compensation Report has been recognized as the eLearning industry’s mosttrusted source of data on eLearning professionals’ salary and compensation. Our2015 report updated all of our industry data and provided new features andresources.
In July, we surveyed Guild membersand asked them to tell us about the 2015 report and identify ways we can makethe 2016 report even better. We received some terrific feedback as well asnumerous insights and detailed suggestions. Thepurpose of this research briefing is to send a sincere “thank you” back to allour respondents and provide everyone with an overview of results and keyfindings.
When we asked readers how often they quoted or otherwiseused data from the 2015 Global eLearningSalary & Compensation Report, 19 percent said they used report data“often” and 72 percent said they “occasionally” referred to the report.
More specifically, we asked “how” they used informationfrom the report. The majority of respondents (77 percent) said they used thereport for reference purposes, while 65 percent relied upon report data as asource for personal action planning. This was welcomed feedback, as weintroduced a new section to the 2015 report which explained specific steps for“taking action” on salary data and also provided a number of tools, referencematerials, and other resources to help readers address their own (as well asothers’) salary issues.
Figure 1 shows feedback from readers on issues related toformat, length, and organization of the report, as well as topic relevancy andoverall importance of the report.
Figure 1: How readers responded to the survey items
We also received important feedback about the quality andfocus of the report and salary calculator. Here are some of our key findings.
- The salary calculator received asubstantial number of positive comments and some useful suggestions forimproving the 2016 version.
- The topics rated as “most insightful oruseful” focused on regional salary data, salary trends, and salary comparisonsby industry and job focus.
- In contrast, “least useful” topics tendedto be those outside of therespondent’s geographical location or specific areas of interest (e.g., non-USrespondents wanted less US data and more global data, US respondents wantedless global data and more US data).
- The “gender pay gap” remained highlycontroversial. For example, a large number of readers wanted more commentary and researchabout gender and pay differences, while a smaller number of others said genderwas not an issue for them and they did not want more discussion of that topic.Our sense is that we should include more research and information about this importanttopic in the 2016 edition of the report.
- We received several comments about the placement ofadvertisements within the report and are considering suggestions to move theseto the back of the 2016 edition.
- We are also considering ways to enhance accessibilityto 2016 salary report data. These include the possibility of adding anInternet-based interface that improves search capabilities and better enables readersto navigate through sections of the report they are most interested in (andavoid those of less interest).
Please let us know if you have further comments orquestions about our salary and compensation report.Again, we sincerely appreciate your feedback and look forward to making the2016 report our best ever.
If you haven’t yet read the 2015Global eLearning Salary & Compensation Report, you can read the report here.
