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Volume XX |
In this issue....
Features
- Increasing Your Membership
- How to Put On a Web Seminar
- Program Meetings: Inspirational Ideas
- Five Steps to Finding Speakers
- Creating a Table of Contents for Your Community's Blog
Administration
- LCR news and updates
- Board report posted
- STC to unveil new salary database
- Vote in STC's bylaws referendum
- STC's upcoming membership campaign
- Use STC mailing lists
Communities
- What you should know about chapter financial reports
- A SIG for Europe
- Chapter name change
- Pittsburgh chapter recognizes longtime member
- Chapter financial reports
Competitions
Elections
Events
Leadership Links
Administration
Board Report Posted
The board report for the May 2007 meeting of STC’s Board of Directors has been posted to the STC site.
STC to Unveil New Salary Database
In previous years, STC surveyed its members to gather salary information. Now we use the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupational Employment Survey (OES). This survey provides greater coverage—it samples 1.25 million business establishments—and is more credible because the data are reported by employers rather than employees (HR departments distrust employee-reported salary data, as respondents have been known to inflate numbers in hopes of boosting raises). As HR departments usually file the OES questionnaire with BLS, they are familiar with the data and are more likely to use the OES than what they perceive as self-serving association surveys.
STC is currently analyzing the OES data to determine the best way to present it to the membership. The survey results will be available later this year.