Pay Satisfaction Questionnaire
Measures Job Satisfaction.
Sample items
- “Influence my supervisor has on my pay”
- “Amount the company pays towards my benefits”
Reliability & validity
Reliability & validity evidence is syncing from Principia.
Sources
- Heneman and Schwab (1985) (1985)
Deploy it
The full item bank and survey deployment live in the People Analytics Toolbox (the enterprise survey-item library), with the min-N privacy gate.
What the literature says
The measurement literature behind this signal — sourced, so you can defend it.
“A whopping 46 percent of respondents prefer the lower salary in a recent study by the London School of Economics. Social envy is very present in the workplace as people take pay as a proxy for their self-worth. Even the person you report to influences heavily if you perceive…”
— Scaling Up Compensationmatch 55%
“Many items given by the employee to the employer are not quantitatively measurable, but they are present and are very important to the company. The items from the employer to the employee may differ from one employee to the next with regard to what is of value. Indeed, even the…”
— Worldatwork Handbook Compensationmatch 54%
“Do not use the questionnaire itself for your answers. You have been assigned a number for data analysis purposes. This number should already be printed on your answer sheet. Please make no other marks on the answer sheet except your responses to each question and your name. The…”
— Diagnosing Changing Org Culturematch 53%
Resources: Scaling Up Compensation · Worldatwork Handbook Compensation · Diagnosing Changing Org Culture