Wage & Benefits Survey/Report
Wage & Benefits Survey
Help Shape Lancaster County’s Workforce Data—Take the Wage & Benefits Survey!
Every year, the Lancaster Chamber gathers wage and benefit data from businesses across the county to create a valuable resource for employers. By participating in the Wage & Benefits Survey, you’ll help build a clearer picture of local compensation trends, benefits, and workplace policies—insights that directly support better decision-making for businesses like yours.
Getting Started is Easy
- Access the survey using the personalized link provided in your invitation email.
- Complete the survey at your convenience. Responses are automatically saved, allowing you to return at any time.
- Need assistance? Support is available to answer questions and help guide you through the process.
- Review your responses before submitting.
- Once results are released, you’ll receive notification and access to the final benchmarking reports.
- Explore the data, compare trends, and leverage the insights to support your workforce strategy.
- Future participation is even easier, with prior responses available for review and updating.
What’s New This Year?!
✔ Survey Administration: The survey will be hosted on the Sensible Surveys platform and will be administered by the team at the Lancaster Chamber. Sensible Surveys is user-friendly and intuitive, allows users to save progress and return later, and produces interactive, exportable reports for users once the survey results have been compiled.
- Save your progress and return anytime — responses are automatically saved as you work.
- User-friendly experience — designed to simplify even detailed compensation and benefits surveys.
- Powerful benchmarking tools — easily filter and analyze results by industry, company size, employee type, shift, and more.
- Interactive reporting dashboard — explore charts, graphs, and compensation data in one place.
- Exportable reports — download data for compensation planning, leadership discussions, and workforce strategy.
- Easier future participation — responses can be carried forward from year to year, reducing the time required for future surveys.
Your input makes this report stronger—and helps ensure Lancaster businesses have the data they need to attract and retain talent. Take the survey today!
What You’ll Receive
As a purchaser, you’ll gain exclusive access to comprehensive Lancaster County compensation and benefits benchmarking data, including:
- Wage benchmarks by position and industry
- Benefits comparisons across local employers
- Customizable reporting and filtering options
- Exportable data for planning, budgeting, and board discussions
These insights provide a powerful tool for HR professionals, business leaders, and decision-makers looking to stay competitive in today’s workforce environment.
The Lancaster Chamber Wage & Benefits Survey collects local compensation and benefits data from employers across Lancaster County. The results are compiled into a comprehensive report that helps businesses benchmark wages, evaluate benefits offerings, and make informed workforce decisions.
Participation ensures the most accurate and representative data possible. The more employers who contribute, the stronger the final report becomes—providing greater value to the entire business community.
HR professionals, business owners, finance leaders, and anyone responsible for compensation or benefits decisions within their organization are encouraged to participate.
The survey gathers data on wages, salary structures, bonuses, benefits offerings, and select HR policies. All information is reported in aggregate to ensure confidentiality. You can find the full list of questions above.
Yes. The Lancaster Chamber helps organizations safely obtain salary, wage, and benefits data by ensuring compliance with U.S. Department of Justice guidelines. To preserve the integrity of the survey process, all data received by the Lancaster Chamber from participating members is treated as strictly confidential and is provided in aggregate format.
We’ve partnered with Sensible Surveys to provide a more streamlined and user-friendly experience. The new platform makes it easier to complete the survey, save progress, and return as needed.
Completion time varies depending on the size of your organization and the number of roles included, but the updated platform is designed to reduce time and simplify data entry.
If you have questions or need assistance, please contact Abby Williams, awilliams@lancasterchamber.com.
Minimizing Risk of Antitrust Violations
The Lancaster Chamber helps organizations safely obtain salary, wage, and benefits data by ensuring compliance with U.S. Department of Justice guidelines. To preserve the integrity of the survey process, all data received by the Lancaster Chamber from participating members is treated as strictly confidential and is provided in aggregate format. Company-specific data is not shared with any other outside entity or individual, and companies participating in the survey can opt out of including themselves in our participating companies section of the Wage & Benefits Report.
Participation by competing employers in surveys of employee salaries, wages or benefits does not necessarily raise antitrust concerns. In fact, such surveys can have significant benefits. Employers can use information derived from benchmarking surveys to offer competitive compensation and benefits that attract and retain qualified employees. The Wage & Benefits data collection process and report ensure that:
1. The survey is managed by a reputable third-party provider like the Lancaster Chamber;
2. The information provided by survey participants is based on data more than 3 months old;
3. There are at least 5 organizations reporting data and no individual respondent’s data represents more than 25% on a weighted basis of that statistic; and
4. Any information disseminated is sufficiently aggregated such that it would not allow recipients to identify the compensation paid or benefits provided by any organization.
Questions?
Reach out to Abby Williams, awilliams@lancasterchamber.com.
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