The Market Survey Match application empowers members to conduct precise, confidential, and data-driven compensation research. By combining customization, transparency, and privacy, it provides the accuracy of a professional market survey—without the complexity or cost of external consulting.
Note: Market Survey Match is available exclusively to Pro and Pro+ members.
The Market Survey Match application is a sophisticated analytical tool designed to address one of the greatest challenges in church Human Resources: finding accurate and comparable compensation data for specific staff roles. T
Market Survey Match allows you to leverage the ChurchSalary database to quickly identify the most similar employees serving at similar churches—streamlining the market survey process that has traditionally required costly, external consultants.
By transforming compensation benchmarking into a simple, guided workflow, Market Survey Match enables HR professionals and church leaders to create fair, data-informed salary packages.
Get Started: The Four-Step Search Process
Market Survey Match makes it easy to find comparable employees by guiding you through a simple, four-step search process. Log into your account, click Launch Dashboard and under Applications, click Market Survey Match.
Step 1: Select an Employee and Church
To initiate a report, select an Employee Profile from your Dashboard. The application auto-populates the report with the employee’s existing data and high-level metrics from the assigned church location, including Total Salary, Benefits, Total Compensation, Budget, and Size.
Step 2: Refine Fixed Variables
The search is built on four Fixed Variables that looks at four main factors to find churches and employees that most closely match your situation. These values are preloaded from the selected employee but can be adjusted to fine-tune your search.
Position
Employment Status (Full-time or Part-time)
Church Budget (Total Operating Budget)
Total Salary (Used only as a final filter when more than five matches are found)
Step 3: Add and Arrange Adjustable Variables
You can customize your search by adding up to 13 Adjustable Variables using the +Add Variable button.
Variables can be reordered by dragging and dropping, and are pre-filled based on the employee’s data for speed and accuracy.
Adjustable variables include factors such as: Church Size, Region, State, Metro Area, Education Level, Tenure, Relevant Experience, and benefits such as Housing Allowance, Bivocational Status, Tax Form Type, Retirement, and Health Insurance. As variables are added, the list of matching employees becomes more refined.
Step 4: Generate Market Survey Match
Once the parameters are set, you'll see an anonymized list of 3–5 employees who most closely match the defined criteria.
If more than five employees qualify, the application automatically filters to the five whose Total Salary most closely aligns with the user’s input.
The final results display the closest compensation comparisons based on similar salary and shared characteristics.