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From The Croner Company
2021 Croner Digital Content and Technology Survey Planning Meeting
The 25th annual Croner Digital Content and Technology Survey will be launched on Thursday, January 28, 2021, when long-time and new survey participant companies gather virtually to plan for this year’s Survey content. This annual Survey planning meeting, conducted with compensation and human resources executives, ensures the Survey remains fresh [...]
Planning Meeting for the 2021 C2HR Connectivity Providers Compensation Survey
The C2HR Connectivity Providers Compensation Survey provides up-to-date competitive compensation information about positions in cable multiple systems operators (MSOs), other cable and telecommunications operators and home security companies. The Survey will be launched on Thursday, January 14, 2021, when long-time and new survey participant companies gather virtually to plan for this year’s [...]
Steady Compensation Growth for Entertainment Industry Executives and Management
The annual Croner Entertainment Survey provides comprehensive market data for compensation for jobs and specialties in all segments of the Entertainment industry, including Film, Television, Digital Entertainment and Music production and distribution. Noteworthy insights from the just published 2020 Croner Entertainment Survey include: Executives and Middle Management levels across industry segments experienced steady compensation growth year [...]
Why Use A Compensation Survey?
It’s tempting to determine salary, bonus and stock levels of your executives and employees based upon anecdotal pay amounts or on readily available self-reported salary data. However, doing so is akin to guessing at sales levels with your largest customers, or to pricing your leading product based on a conversation with a former employee [...]
Current Salary Trends for Grantmaking Foundations and Community Foundations
The Croner Compensation Survey of Foundations provides comprehensive data on compensation specific to private, independent grantmaking foundations and community foundations in the U.S. Noteworthy salary trends in compensation for the grantmaking foundations, from our just published 2020 Croner Compensation Survey of Foundations, include [...]
Digital Media and Commerce Positions See Steady Growth in Pay
The 2020 Croner Digital Content and Technology Survey provides in-depth data on compensation for jobs specific to internet and mobile content and transactions. Some of the noteworthy findings from the recent report include [...]
Base Salaries Up for Animation and Visual Effects Jobs
The recently published results of the 2020 Croner Animation and Visual Effects Survey— providing third party market data for jobs that produce animation and visual effects — shows these noteworthy trends in compensation over the past year [...]
New Job Families Added to the 2020 Croner Software Games Survey
The position grids for the 2020 Croner Software Games Survey will cover seven new job families this year. These additions result from discussions with participant companies at the annual Survey Planning Meeting, attended by human resources and compensation professionals from gaming software companies developing and/or publishing games in all platform types including mobile, social, console, PC, handheld, MMO and casino games. [...]
Launch of the 2020 Croner Software Games Survey-International
The 2020 Croner Software Games Survey-International will launch on Thursday, June 4, 2020, when industry professionals gather virtually to plan for this year’s software games compensation survey for companies with employees in the U.K and Europe. Human resources and compensation professionals will represent developers and/or publishers in all gaming platforms: mobile, social, console, PC, handheld, MMO and casino games. [...]
Launch of the 2020 Croner Software Games Survey
The 2020 Croner Software Games Survey will be launched on Wednesday, May 11, 2020, when industry professionals gather virtually to plan for the content to be covered in this year’s compensation survey of the industry. The annual Survey planning meeting is for human resources and compensation professionals from companies developing and/or publishing games in all platform types including mobile, social, console, PC, handheld, MMO and casino games. [...]
Annual Survey Planning Meeting Launches the 2020 Croner Entertainment Survey
The 2020 Croner Entertainment Survey will be launched on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 when participating companies gather virtually to plan the content for this year’s Survey. This annual Survey planning meeting, conducted by The Croner Company, is attended by compensation and HR executives from large film studios, small film studios, music producer and distributors and also companies producing content distributed in theaters or across television and digital networks companies. The Survey positions cover a full array of positions for entertainment companies, including theme park and consumer product divisions. [...]
Local Media Industry Compensation – 2020 Croner Survey Planning Meeting
The 2020 Croner Local Media Survey will launch on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 for companies that broadcast content and sell advertising for local television and radio stations. The Survey reports competitive pay rates for local media, advertising, programming and operations positions at local stations. [...]