Why You Should Fill Out the Salary Survey
It's time once again to fill out the ADVANCE National Salary and Workplace Survey of Nurse Practitioners. Although it's called the ADVANCE survey, all the magazine does is provide the questions and crunch the numbers. ADVANCE readers are the real force behind this biennial survey.
I'm sure many of you have responded to our questionnaire several times in the past. More of you, though, are probably new to the survey, and here's why you should participate: The more you know, the better you can negotiate.
Employers and NPs rely on the survey in job negotiations. The online survey results article gets thousands of hits every month, and I get phone calls and e-mail requests with specific questions throughout the life of a survey -- often from employers who aren't experienced in hiring NPs. They want to know what a new pediatric NP working in a family practice in Des Moines, for example, should expect to earn. The survey results can get them close to an answer.
The more NPs who respond to the survey, the more accurate the results will be. The 2007 survey had more than 6,000 respondents, and we're shooting for 10,000 for the 2009 survey. And our new survey platform will allow us to provide specific, more accurate results for many more cities than in the past. We're only limited by the number of respondents. Fill out the survey now.
If you've used the ADVANCE salary survey in job negotiations in the past, let us know in the comments section below.