Construct Simple Or Complex Surveys With Ease
The salary and benefits tool is a web application developed by Novus Insight, leveraging our flexible data framework. This tool allows municipal leagues to customize surveys and survey reporting to their specific needs, without incurring the significant costs and effort usually associated with software customization. It is more than just a survey application—it’s a comprehensive survey creation system that requires no technical skills to use or administer.
Highly Self-Serviceable
Advanced Admin Features
Full Customization Control
“I can do so many things now that I couldn’t with our previous system, and the collaborative support from Novus has been great.”
While cities and towns recognize the value of aggregated data that comes from salary and benefits surveys, most find the submission process tedious and time-consuming. This administrative burden is partially due to the technology used by leagues to conduct surveys. Many of the survey tools lack a level of sophistication needed to automate certain steps or eliminate redundancies.
What Type Of Organizations Use This System?
A Tool For Demonstrating Responsible Fiscal Management
The value to municipalities of access to accurate, comprehensive salary and benefits data extends well beyond merely comparing salary levels with neighboring towns. It allows them to more easily illustrate legislative impact. It helps with instilling trust among employees and union representatives. It demonstrates fiscal prudence to taxpayers by way of public data that municipal wage and benefits packages are competitive and defendable.
A Fully Branded Application
Integrates With Your Public Website
Extensive Reporting Capabilities
Useable For Multiple Survey Types
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. This is something that is configurable by a survey administrator. All answers carry over and either populate this year’s survey or are viewable by the respondent. The administrator determines which answers auto-populate and which are just viewable and need to be manually entered.
There is a one-time implementation fee and an all-inclusive annual service and support fee that includes hosting of the platform in a secure hosting site. Both fees are dependent on complexity of the survey & reporting requirements and how much administrator support is needed on an ongoing basis.
Typical information collected and reported on includes city, town or county employee compensation and benefits like insurance plans, job types, and information about the specific positions at the municipality. Also included is basic profile information on cities, towns and counties, such as population, number of employees, and information on the tax base that can be used to compare across jurisdictions.
Yes, both Association of Washington Cities and Connecticut Conference of Municipalities have AMS integration with this platform. Survey users access the survey and reporting feature through each leagues’s AMS.
Email and phone support from the Novus help desk located in East Hartford, CT. This includes direct access to the Novus team that built the survey system. The large majority of our client questions and support requests are answered or resolved the same day, and almost every one within 24 hours.
Yes, for example, Association of Washington Cities is using the reporting tool as a repository for copies of city and county collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) and job descriptions that survey users can view.
Yes, users can filter by organization, population, tax base, geography, position, salary range, vacation hours, job descriptions, and more. Filtering can also be done by position, allowing users to filter for positions within an entire service category (e.g. “city law enforcement” which includes police officers, chiefs, detectives, dispatchers, etc.) or by specific positions. This gives users the option to choose from among only those positions that are on their municipality or county’s survey.
Standard Capabilities
Customization Simplicity
Advanced Administration Features
High Levels of Self-Serviceability
Robust Reporting
Fully Branded Site
Strong Communication Features
Granular Permission Management
Workflow Automation
Non-Salary Survey Support