Working with Surveys
Purpose
You can use salary surveys to determine, for example, how your company’s personnel costs compare with the market average.
Process Flow
You can work with salary survey data in Personnel Cost Planning in different ways.
For example, you can:
Enter survey data.
Create a costing scenario using the survey data.
Retrieve a second costing scenario to use for comparison purposes.
You can also:
Create two separate plan versions, with one version containing the real cost planning information, and the other salary information
Create separate scenarios for each plan version
Retrieve both scenarios for comparison
Enter Survey Data
You must enter salary survey data manually.
The system handles data entry of survey data through the Cost Planning infotype (1015). When you create Cost Planning infotype records for positions, jobs, organizational units, or work centers, you must assign the information to a subtype or a subcategory.
You can designate certain subtypes to hold information from a certain survey. So then, a single position may have two or three different Cost Planning records at one time. One record would contain the wage element information that reflects the actual situation, and the other two records could contain data from two separate surveys.
Note
You can customize the subtypes in Cost Planning records to suit your needs. For details, refer to the
Personnel Planning and Development
section of the Implementation Guide.
Create Costing Scenario
You develop a costing scenario for the survey data by creating a scenario using projected pay as an information source. Be sure to specify the correct Cost Planning subtype in the
Salary surveys
field of the Planning Basis for Projected Pay window. (Survey data is stored in designated subtypes of the Cost Planning infotype.)
Load Second Scenario
While the survey scenario is open, use the
load reference scenario
option to retrieve a second scenario, that you want to use for comparison.
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