MAPPS to Conduct Salary and Non-Cash Benefits Survey of Membership

MAPPS is once again conducting its Salary and Non-Cash Benefits Survey.  This is the most comprehensive compensation survey in the geospatial profession.  It is the best way to benchmark your firm's wage and income with others in the community.

The survey will be web based.  It will be emailed to member firms beginning April 15.

In order to have a homogenous universe, the survey will only be sent to Regular Member Firms (US service and data firms).  Associate Members (hardware and software providers, consultants and non-US firms) will not participate in the survey, but will receive a free copy of the final report.  Regular Member Firms that complete the survey form will receive a free copy of the final report.  The final report will be available for purchase by Regular Member Firms that do not participate in the survey, and to non-members at a premium price.  A presentation on the survey results will be offered at the MAPPS Summer Meeting, July 29 - August 2, 2010 in Lake Tahoe, NV.

The survey will be conducted by Compdata Surveys, an independent third party professional data collection company.  Individual firm responses and data will be treated with complete confidence.  No MAPPS staff or member will see any firm's information.

Please look out for an email with the link to the survey on April 15.  And please participate in the survey.  The better the response from the membership, the better the quality of the final data will be.

About MAPPS
Formed in 1982, MAPPS is the only national association exclusively comprised of private firms in the remote sensing, spatial data and geographic information systems field in the United States. The MAPPS membership spans the entire spectrum of the geospatial community, including Member Firms engaged in satellite and airborne remote sensing, surveying, photogrammetry, aerial photography, LIDAR, hydrography, bathymetry, charting, aerial and satellite image processing, GPS, and GIS data collection and conversion services. MAPPS also includes Associate Member Firms, which are companies that provide hardware, software, products and services to the geospatial profession in the United States and other firms from around the world. Independent Consultant Members are sole proprietors engaged in consulting in or to the geospatial profession, or provides a consulting service of interest to the geospatial profession.

MAPPS provides its 180+ member firms opportunities for networking and developing business-to-business relationships, information sharing, education, public policy advocacy, market growth, and professional development and image enhancement.

For more information on MAPPS, please visit www.MAPPS.org.