No. Participants in a particular survey receive a discount on the purchase price of results. CUPA-HR members who participate in a given survey receive a 60% discount on the purchase price; nonmembers who participate receive a 32% discount. The discount is automatically calculated when you order the results online.
For survey deadlines, see the full survey schedule. When you are logged in to Surveys Online, you can also see the deadlines for any open surveys you have access to complete by clicking Home on the top menu bar and viewing the Upcoming Deadlines box.
For each survey, the list of participating institutions is included in the annual report overview. Visit each survey's main page for the link to the most recent report overview.
Position descriptions are available in the Survey Participation and Information Templates.
To order survey reports and/or DataOnDemand, visit the Survey Ordering/Pricing section of our website.
NOTE: To order survey results you must use your CUPA-HR login and password. If you have trouble logging in, contact CUPA-HR toll free at 877-287-2474 or by email.
To purchase CUPA-HR survey results, webinars, conferences or other products, you must use your CUPA-HR login and password. Follow the prompts on the CUPA-HR log-in page to obtain your username and reset your password. If you have trouble logging in, contact CUPA-HR toll free at 877-287-2474 or by email.
Institutional CUPA-HR members automatically receive the Administrators in Higher Education Salary Survey report PDF complimentary.
You do not need to order your free report. Directions to download your complimentary report are emailed to you in February. The report can also be found in the CUPA-HR Knowledge Center.
Pricing for all survey results is based on whether your institution participated in a given survey and, if it did, on whether your institution is a member of CUPA-HR.
Pricing for all surveys is available in the Surveys Ordering/Pricing section of our website.
If your institution has purchased DataOnDemand, we can provide access to an outside consultant hired to perform compensation studies. To request consultant access, send an email to CUPA-HR with the following information:
You can review your institution’s order history through the new Data Ordering and Subscription Management System.
If you purchased a PDF report, log in to the Data Ordering and Subscription Management System and click on Download Reports to download your report.
If you purchased DataOnDemand, you will receive a confirmation email within 24 hours, and your institution's chief HR officer and CUPA-HR membership contact will receive an automatic notification with instructions for granting access. There are two steps to gaining access to the data.
To participate in CUPA-HR surveys, please complete the Survey Data Providers form, and we will send your data provider(s) instructions for participating.
The Survey Schedule provides important dates to let you know when you can begin to provide your institution's data and the deadline to do so.
There is no cost to participate in our surveys. However, there is a cost to purchase the survey results.
If you have finished your survey but continue to receive e-mails from us to complete your survey, you have not checked the box that says “My institution has completed this survey.”
Until this box is checked, you will continue to receive e-mails. To check the box, log in to Surveys Online through the CUPA-HR web portal with your CUPA-HR username and password, click on Survey Menu on the Surveys tab, click Go next to the survey in question and check the completed box. Your survey data will now be transmitted to us.
You can view the participants for each survey in the Report Overview of each report.
Once you’ve marked a survey as ‘will complete’ in the Surveys Online survey menu, click the name of the survey. Find the link in the Survey Form section under Upload Incumbent Data that says “Click for an Excel export of the prior Year survey data.” This downloads a spreadsheet of last year’s data, and a pre-filled template for easily updating this year’s survey.
If you’ve changed institutions or if your name, title, e-mail address or contact numbers are incorrect, follow these steps:
To contact us, please complete the Ask Research form.
If you are no longer the contact to complete a survey for your institution or if your institution’s contacts have changed, complete our data provider change form.
Visit our DataOnDemand page for a detailed description of DataOnDemand, including a User’s Guide and slideshow.
No. DataOnDemand is never free. DataOnDemand is a subscription data service. Subscription prices are highest for survey non-participants, and lowest for participants who are members of CUPA-HR. To view current pricing, go to our Surveys Pricing page.
Comparison Groups are defined sets of institutions used for benchmarking purposes. They allow you to compare aggregate results of a group to your own school. Comparison groups can be created based on a set of peer institutions, aspirant institutions or institutions matching certain criteria that you specify such as operating budget, enrollment, faculty size, affiliation, geographical location or Carnegie Classification. Every comparison group you create and use must differ from all your other comparison groups in use at your institution by a minimum of three schools. This is true even for groups you have created, used and then deleted. Deleting a used group removes it from your desktop but not from Surveys Online.
DOD is available for the following surveys:
Click on the survey title above to see the report overview for the surveys.
DOD is available to all higher education institutions ONLY. Anyone at the institution can purchase a DOD subscription. However, due to the sensitive and confidential nature of salary data, only your institution’s chief HR officer, CUPA-HR membership contact or an authorized sub-administrator can grant users access to DataOnDemand. Users may be given full access or access to everything except their own institutions' salary and demographic information.
If you are a consultant you cannot directly order DOD. You will need to ask the institution you are working for to place the order. For DOD orders, the institution must list you as one of the individuals to be given access. DOD access is limited to a maximum of two consultants.
DOD is purchased for each survey and the price is determined by whether you participated in the survey and on whether you are a CUPA-HR member or non-member. To view current pricing, go to our Surveys Pricing page.
An unlimited number of users at your campus location can have access to DOD; however, access can be granted only by your institution’s chief HR officer, CUPA-HR membership contact or an authorized sub-administrator. Once access has been granted, each user receives his or her own confidential login to DOD. The access granted to that user determines whether or not the user can see your institution's salary and demographic data.
DOD opens each year in early February. Your subscription is active from the date of purchase until February 15 of the following year. For example, if you purchase DOD in June, your subscription will expire on February 15. If you purchase DOD on February 5, your subscription will expire 10 days later on February 15. The cost of a DOD subscription is not pro-rated.
Each survey report provides an easy-to-read, national-level summary of the survey, including an executive summary, supporting data tables and a list of responding institutions. DOD is a hands-on application that gives institutions and specified users direct access to survey data. DOD gives users the ability to conduct your own analyses any time you want and as often as you want, using comparison groups that you create. Use of DOD is limited only by the five restrictions in place to protect confidentiality
No. DOD is never complimentary. It must be purchased for each survey for which you wish to generate custom reports. As a member of CUPA-HR, your institution receives the Administrators in Higher Education PDF report complimentary each year in February.
Yes. The user’s guide is located at this link:
/surveys/files/DOD_Users_Manual.pdf
Administrators Reports:
Professionals Reports:
Staff (Non-Exempt) Reports:
Faculty Reports:
Healthcare Benefits in Higher Education Reports:
Employee Non-Health Benefits Reports:
See the DOD Users Guide for descriptions.
DataOnDemand reports provide results using institutional average salaries or incumbent salaries; institutional average salaries are the default and incumbent salaries are a user-selectable option. Institutional average salaries calculate statistics based on the average salaries of all individuals in the same position within each institution. The resulting statistics are the best estimate of what the typical institution pays for a position, effectively preventing institutions with a high number of incumbents in that position from overly influencing the results. Incumbent salaries, in contrast, calculate statistics based on the salaries of all individuals who hold a position, regardless of institution. The resulting statistics are the best estimate of what the typical individual earns in a position across all institutions but does not control for institutions with a large number of incumbents.
To comply with DOJ Safe Harbor Guidelines the weighted data option provides salary data only for positions or faculty discipline ranks with 5 or more responding institutions and in which all responding institutions comprise 25.0% or less of the incumbents. If a position or discipline rank has at least 5 responding institutions but one institution represents more than 25% of the incumbents, salary data is not reported.
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