Salary Survey 2010 - Nicva

• Salary scales and grading structures.• Involvement in unions.In order to record detailed information about job roles and remuneration,respondents were given a salary grid to record remuneration levels against alist of job roles. (See Section 1.7)1.5 Structure of the ReportThis report is spilt into four sections. In the first section voluntary andcommunity organisations were asked for the number of employees and thenumber of full time and part employees they employ. It also examinesdiversity among the voluntary sector workforce including a breakdown ofmale/female staff and the age of those employed by the sector.The second section examines recruitment and retention and looks at past andpossible future staff fluctuations in the sector.The third section analyses pay and contract of employment benefits amongvoluntary and community organisations such as leave, pensions, familyfriendly benefits and annual increments and, where possible, compares theseto the private and public sector.The final section provides a detailed analysis of job roles and salaries withinvarious sized organisations.A key theme running throughout the report is the impact of the economicenvironment including the recent downturn and the impending public sectorcuts since the health of the economy is closely aligned to the labour market.1.6 Presentation of DataIn the sections which examine the different salary levels by job role thefollowing analysis was used to provide a more in depth profile. For each set ofanalyses we provide three guidelines:LQMUQLower quartile: one quarter of the posts in the sample earns thisfigure or less; three quarters earn this figure or more.Median or middle of the market figure: when the posts are ranked inorder of salary, this is the middle figure. It is normally lower than thearithmetic ‘average’ or mean, which is obtained by adding all thefigures together and dividing by the number of salaries in the sample.Upper quartile: three quarters of the posts are paid this figure or less;one quarter are paid this figure or more.NumberThe number of posts in the sample.NICVA: December 2010 13