The Eau Claire Chamber partners with MRA to offer a variety of employment surveys throughout the year. These surveys provide valuable insights into compensation, benefits, and workforce trends, helping businesses make informed HR decisions.
Chamber Investors receive exclusive discounted rates on these surveys gaining access to comprehensive data to stay competitive in today's job market.
2025 Benchmark Compensation Survey
The 2025 Benchmark Compensation survey has over 550 jobs in crucial business areas, from staff to executives.
- Questionnaire Available: January 14
- Survey Deadline: February 21
- Data Effective: January 1, 2025
- Report Published: May
- Full report valued at $2,399
The survey covers over 550 jobs spanning across 32 job families, including:
- Accounting/Finance
- Administrative
- Engineering
- Executive
- Human Resources
- Marketing
- Project Management
- …and more!
2025 Industrial Production & Trades Survey
The 2025 Industrial & Production Trades Survey had over 320 jobs unique to manufacturing, industrial, and production industry. 2025 Industrial & Production Trades Job Booklet
- Questionnaire Available - March 4
- Survey Deadline - April 11
- Data Effective - March 1, 2025
- Report Published - July 2025
- Full report valued at $1,199
This year, the survey covers over 320 jobs spanning over 20 job families, including:
- Assembly
- Finishing
- Facilities
- Manufacturing Automation
- Shipping/Receiving
- Transportation
- Welding
- ...and more!
2025 Compensation Trends Survey
The 2025 Compensation Trends Survey gives a complete picture of pay, from strategy to pay adjustments to market data to putting it all together with communication and transparency.
- Questionnaire Available - June 3
- Survey Deadline - July 11
- Report Published - August 2025
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The data is collected for all U.S. Markets, with the final report containing five state sections (Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin) plus an overall section.
With local, employer-matched, employer-reported pay data, you can be confident that your organization is making vital pay decisions based on solid, high-quality data that reflects the market in which you do business. The more organizations that participate, the more reliable and representative the results!
All data is kept confidential in accordance with the U.S. Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission Anti-Trust Safety Guidelines. Data is only reported if there is a minimum of 5 participating organizations.
MRA adheres to strict standards to preserve the confidentiality of the data and follows antitrust "safe harbor" guidelines for all jobs. All survey results are reported with a three-month gap between the effective date of the pay rates and publication. To ensure confidentiality, data is reported only if there is a minimum of 5 participating organizations and in a summarized format.
“WIN Technology uses the survey data to complete our organization-wide salary banding. In many instances, to remain competitive with local larger markets, we have to use an average of pay information for both MN & WI to establish 25/50/75 percentiles for our employees. This survey gives us that information.” - Kevin, WIN Technology
Frequently Asked Questions
For more information or any questions, please get in touch with Tina Probst, probst@eauclairechamber.org