Custom Surveys

Bluewater is a leading provider of custom compensation and benefit surveys for associations, industry groups, professional societies, chambers of commerce, and individual organizations.  We work collaboratively with our customers from the beginning of the project through completion to ensure that you receive a custom survey that achieves your objectives.   Our leading edge survey tools are built upon a flexible platform that allows us to quickly and cost-effectively create a tailored survey to meet the needs of any organization. 

You will find that Bluewater custom surveys offer a level of customer support, quality and innovation that far surpasses other providers -- all at a very affordable price.  This combination has earned Bluewater the reputation of being a smart choice when it comes to compensation and benefit surveys.  Bluewater custom surveys feature the following benefits to make your organization’s survey project a success:

• Online participant invitations and registration to increase survey participation
• Private labeling or “branding” of the survey and reports to enhance sponsoring organization’s image and brand
• Multiple reporting formats that allow your organization to select a variety of reports to meet the needs of all your members
• Online survey data collection with progress indicator to improve participant satisfaction and data accuracy
• Participant status monitoring and survey completion reminders to enable real-time participant support and boost survey completion
• Benchmark jobs and job families to simplify survey completion and improve data quality
• Data quality control process to ensure only reliable information is added to the survey results
• Reports display information by multiple views to allow for quick and easy comparisons against relevant peer organizations
• Third-party consultant objectivity to enhance credibility with survey participants
• Tri-level compensation data reporting to support comparison of pay practices against the marketplace by operating unit, job family and individual position levels
• Participant data confidentiality and secure information storage to advance survey participation
• Extensive use of percentile rankings and key performance metrics throughout the reports to provide for quick analysis and industry benchmarking

Bluewater’s leading edge survey tools offer flexible reporting options to meet the needs of any organization.  Our reports are available in electronic format to simplify report distribution or may be printed conveniently from a PDF file that can be easily bound.  Bluewater custom surveys give you ultimate flexibility to choose how much of your survey data to report and in what format.  Select from one or more of the following report types to display the results from your custom survey:

• Participant Report™
  Unparalleled in the marketplace, the Participant Report™ does the work of comparing the participant’s survey responses to similar organizations by geography, budget, number of employees, and industry. This custom report provides key performance metrics that allow a participating organization to quickly and easily benchmark itself against a relevant peer group for all compensation and benefit areas. Click Here to see a sample Participant Report™.
  
  
• Comprehensive Reports
  As the name implies, with a Comprehensive Report you will have access to all your custom survey data. Select from one or more of the following reporting formats: combined Salary and Benefits Report, Salary ONLY, or Benefits ONLY. Each report format displays information by multiple views to allow for quick and easy comparisons against relevant peer organizations by geography, budget, number of employees, and industry. All report formats utilize percentile rankings and key performance metrics to display your custom survey data.
  Click Here to see a sample combined Salary and Benefits Report.
  
  
• Individual Job Title Reports
  Bluewater’s Individual Job Title Reports provide base salary, bonus information and total cash compensation data for a specific position title. You can choose to produce a report for each of the positions within your custom survey, or a select few. Each report contains the same data views, percentile rankings and key performance metrics found in our Comprehensive Reports.
  Click Here to see a sample Individual Job Title Report.
  
  
• Market Summary Reports
  Our Market Summary Report provides a quick snapshot of the results of from your custom survey. This report provides an “All Organizations” summary view of the survey data without the detailed data views you’ll find in our Comprehensive Reports.
  Click Here to see a sample Market Summary Report.
  
  
• Custom Online Reporting Tool
  This online reporting tool gives your organization the ability to quickly and easily build custom individual job title reports. Select an available position. Then, use the drop down menus to filter the results using one or more variables to create a report tailored to your exact specifications. This tool can be customized in a variety of ways to provide additional reporting options for your organization.