2006 ASQ Quality Salary Survey

My average salary is <Poll Option> compared to the ASQ Salary Survey

  • Way above

    Votes: 1 5.6%
  • Moderately above

    Votes: 2 11.1%
  • About the same

    Votes: 3 16.7%
  • Moderately below

    Votes: 3 16.7%
  • Way below

    Votes: 9 50.0%
  • NA

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    18
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Jim Wynne

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#12
I have never... never... been anywhere close to what they call the median and mean for the positions and geographic areas I've been in.
Well, the chances are nearly 100% that you'll be on one side of the median or the other.

I'm looking for a new Lead Inspector and I'm not going to be given what they claim is average for an inspector in NJ to work with.
I once took a job as a QM and inherited a disgruntled, highly-skilled CMM operator. I estimated that he was being paid about 60-70% of his market value, but I also realized that he had accepted a lowball offer to begin with, so he had sort of made his own bed. Nonetheless, he was very good at what he did, required almost no supervision, got along well with everybody, and was kind to children and small animals. The company refused to give him what he was asking for, so he went elsewhere and got it.

In the course of my trying to convince the bosses to keep him, the HR manager said, "We do surveys every so often to determine what other companies are paying, and his pay rate is competitive." I asked what "competitive" means. "It means that our pay rates are pretty near the average for similar jobs in this area," came the predictable reply. "So," I said, "we're looking for pretty-near-average employees? Then I can understand why we'd want to get rid of this guy." :truce:
 
M

mlthompson

#14
I just seen the article in the Quality Progress magazine. I'm gonna storm my boss's office and demand fair compensation. If successful I should get about a 400% raise.
 

Marc

Hunkered Down for the Duration with a Mask on...
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#15
2006 ASQ Quality Salary Survey vs. the Quality Progress Quality Salary Survey

Has anyone compared, or tried to compare, the ASQ Quality Salary Survey vs. the Quality Progress Quality Salary Survey?
 

Wes Bucey

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#16
Well, the chances are nearly 100% that you'll be on one side of the median or the other.
Yep. What would we say about the "mode?" (the most frequent value of a random variable) That's really the statistic that would be most meaningful to folks concerned about their salary level.

How many of you who were ASQ members at the time of the survey contributed HONEST figures (if any?)

I always felt only braggarts were willing to up their salary level for reporting purposes - I would never believe:rolleyes: an ASQ guy would fraudulently up the salary level as a long term ploy to boost his own salary by comparing to the mean, median, or mode of the survey.

I knew my salary level would have skewed the results in the years I was a full-time employee because I was primarily a top executive, not a "quality guy." For that reason (being a confirmed "outlier"), I didn't complete the survey.
 
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Tim Folkerts

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#17
If I recall correctly, the data are all self-reported. My guess is that the people with the big salaries will be rightfully :confused: proud of their obvious ;) merits and more likely to report, skewing even further any meaningful analysis from the data.
 

Wes Bucey

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#18
Re: 2006 ASQ Quality Salary Survey vs. the Quality Progress Quality Salary Survey

Has anyone compared, or tried to compare, the ASQ Quality Salary Survey vs. the Quality Progress Quality Salary Survey?
Those are the same thing - Quality Progress is th official ASQ Journal. You mean, I think, Quality Digest!
 
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mlthompson

#19
I just got back from storming my boss's office. He laughed as loud as we are. I guess I'm stuck making less than average salary.

Serious thought: how much is the salary level being skewed because of people living in high cost of living areas like LA or New York?
 

ScottK

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#20
I just got back from storming my boss's office. He laughed as loud as we are. I guess I'm stuck making less than average salary.

Serious thought: how much is the salary level being skewed because of people living in high cost of living areas like LA or New York?

If you download the pdf from the ASQ site they break it down by region.

still laughable.
 
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