The Market Survey Match application empowers you to conduct precise, confidential, and data-driven compensation research and address one of the greatest challenges in church Human Resources: finding accurate and comparable compensation data for specific staff roles.
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.
You can use this tool to leverage the ChurchSalary database to quickly identify the most similar employees serving at similar churches.
How to access the Market Survey Match Application
Log into your ChurchSalary account and navigate to your Dashboard.
Scroll down to your Employees and select the Employee Profile you'd like to look for matches for.
With the employee selected, click Market Survey Match.
Step 1: Select an Employee and Church
The application will auto-populates the report with existing data from your Church Profile (budget, size, etc) and the Employee Profile of the employee you've selected at the beginning (total salary, benefits, etc). The tool will let you adjust the employee and/or church so that you can generate as many reports as you'd like.
Step 2: Refine Fixed Variables
The search is built on four Fixed Variables to find churches and employees that most closely match your situation.
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)
These values are preloaded from the selected employee but can be adjusted to fine-tune your search. Just click any of the boxes to make changes. Note that the green box shows how many total employees are matched with your current data. In the next step you can add additional variables to further refine the search.
Step 3: Add and Arrange Adjustable Variables
You can customize your search by adding up to 13 Adjustable Variables using the +Add Variable button. These variables include things like the church size, region, state, and metro area, the employee's education level and relevant experience, and many other factors.
Click the button to add variables from a dropdown list. You can add multiple, but the order of these variables affect the search results differently, so add these variables based on prioritization or which factors are most important to your search. If you delete or change the order (by dragging and dropping), you will need to retest the number of matches.
As variables are added, the list of matching employees will be refined more and more. You'll always be notified how many total employees match your search criteria after each variable is added.
Step 4: Generate Market Survey Match
Once all of the parameters are set, click Find Matches to generate your report.
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.
Review the results and click Download to download the pdf for use later.
You can also click Reset Matches at the bottom to return to your search criteria to make adjustments.
