RewardOnline National Salary Survey

What’s included in the RewardOnline subscription?

Subscribers have unlimited real-time access (for a full year) to live data benchmarks for over 1000 job titles, at both executive and general staff levels, in private as well as State-Owned Organisations in South Africa.

The subscription includes initial training, and a complete set of organisation-wide reports:

• Remuneration data comparison;
• Total Guaranteed Package – with a breakdown of remuneration components such as car allowance, housing benefits, and medical contributions;
• Job correlation: confirmation of the job matches for your inclusion of data in the survey;
• Customised reports:
  • A range of industries,
  • A range of locations,
  • Your organisation’s own customised grading systems,
  • Your organisation’s choice of comparators.
• Compa ratio:
  • per individual to the national market,
  • per region (upon request),
  • per individual to your industry cut (upon request),
  • to all separate industry cuts.
• NEW! Market Insights:
  • Equal Pay trends,
  • Remuneration approach by level,
  • Benefit prevalence,
  • Annual leave practice,
  • Long service awards,
  • Organisation structure
    benchmarks.
• Power BI, a business analytics solution, lets you visualise your data and share insights across the organisation. Slice and dice data at the click of a button, interrogate data at a more granular level, investigate anomalies, and formulate solutions.

Powerful Search

• Choose from multiple grading systems.
• Select from over 1000 jobs, including several specialised job families.
• Compare across multiple countries.
• Select specific industries.
• View a national benchmark, or a specific region.
• Filter by the jobs that exist in your company or access the full database of jobs.
• Select the specific percentile results you would like to see.
• Compare your own organisation’s data (by job, by grade and by job family) to the market.
• Conduct compa ratio analyses per individual (to the market or your industry cut) or to all separate industry cuts.
• Executive data is available for both Private Sector and State Owned Enterprises in South Africa and includes Long Term Incentive data.
• All your searches are archived for easy retrieval
• Export graphs to PDF and Excel.
• Access a track record of your own data and benchmark history.

Access to additional Data

A RewardOnline subscription gives users access to information designed to provide a snapshot of the current state of the economy and employment in the country, in a new tab called StatsOnline.

This subset of reports (based on publicly available data from StatsSA, and not specific to any organisation) is available for easy access and reference via the Analytico app, part of 21st Century’s data analytics company.

The statistics you will be able to reference are:

• Unemployment,
• Employed / population ratio,
• Labour force participation rate,
• Industry increase trends,
• Workforce composition,
• Employment type,
• Paterson and NQF correlation.

The data extract is interactive, and can be -relative to the statistic – filtered by (for example):

• Province,
• Gender,
• Age group,
• Population group.

What’s does the process involve?

• Clients are sent a defined questionnaire regarding their organisation’s remuneration policy.
• The client’s data is submitted – either via Excel templates sent out by us, or via their payroll. Data has been split to detail each element of pay for each position, enabling the client to accurately analyse and compare the elements that make up their organization’s total reward mix.
• The data is refined to take into account a range of business metrics, including company structure, complexity and size; industry; and region. Grades (including modal grades) are market-related.
• 21st Century matches individual jobs to the jobs in the database, and the client validates and confirms the accuracy of the matches, before the data is loaded onto the RewardOnline database.
• A full report is then generated with relevant market benchmarks and comparative ratios to your own data.
• We repeat this process annually to ensure your data remains up-to-date as you pass salary increases.

Annual Audits

RewardOnline is the only salary survey in Africa that is audited annually, and it has received a clean audit every year since 2011 – ensuring that the benchmark data is accurate, current and relevant, from data collection right through to survey reports.

Security of client data

• Different access levels can be set up in RewardOnline so that sensitive data can be accessed only by those with permission.
• Raw data is not stored on the Internet. The data that is reflected on RewardOnline is the result of the statistical analysis of the raw data that is uploaded to the site, but no raw data is uploaded.
• RewardOnline is hosted on a secure server site, using Thawte SSL Web Server Certificates, which offers comprehensive authentication procedures (domain name and identity verification). Information is kept private while in transit between our web server and our clients’ web browsers thereby ensuring the security of clients’ data.