W W W . W A T S O N W Y A T T . C O M

Importing Survey Data

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Importing Survey Vendor Data

Choose your surveys– Prepare ahead; master lists

Preparing data– Formatting guidelines and tips– Converting to text and FTP

Importing data– REWARD Steps 1-6– Common errors

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Preparing the Spreadsheet Refer to the Preparing and Importing Survey Data

guidelines and Survey Formatting Checklist

Tips– There can be no hidden columns or rows in your

spreadsheet– Annual data should be represented as thousands

E.g.$275.0 from survey should be entered as $275000 in import file

– Do not use quotes or $ signs when preparing data– Do not use commas in numeric columns– The last column of data must have values or labels in it– Delete data you don’t need

E.g., if you don’t intend to upload survey job description or a level description, delete these columns from your spreadsheet

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Is Data Ready for Import?

Save your finished spreadsheet to a tab delimited text file

Upload the tab delimited text file to your FTP

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Survey Imports in REWARD

The process:– From Tools menu, select Import/Export data– Choose Import Salary Survey Data– Follow steps 1-6 for import

1. Specify the survey source2. Describe the survey3. Identify the file (from list of FTP’d text files)4. Map which columns to import5. Select which cuts (scopes) to import 6. Select which jobs to import

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Step 1: Specify the survey source

Note: Once you enter in a survey source it is available the next time you import.

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Step 2: Describe the survey

Recommended naming convention:

Year, Vendor Name, Survey Title

Ex: 2003 Radford Benchmark Report

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Step 3: Identify the file

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Step 4: Map which columns to import

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Step 5: Select which cuts (scopes) to import

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Step 6: Select which jobs to import

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Completed Survey Import Screen