This February, the KBA will launch its annual survey for compensation and benefits. For more than 20 years, we’ve relied on feedback directly from our Kansas banks to look back at their previous year’s data to make certain that they are competitive in their respective markets. This year is no exception. For the third year in a row, we’ve partnered with Industry Insights and state banking associations from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska and Ohio to bring you a comprehensive online instrument by which you can measure your organization’s compensation and benefits through more than 100 different job titles.

As always, we offer this for sale to all of our Kansas banks at an extremely competitive rate that is less than half of what some of the national surveys sell for. However, if you choose to participate, you will receive an additional significant discount on your fee, and you will receive supplemental regional reporting that is exclusive to participating banks only.

Watch our weekly e-newsletter, eSource, for more information. The survey will open in late February and will close on April 1. A direct email will be sent to past participants as a reminder to complete the survey before it expires. We would be grateful if more than half of our Kansas banks participated, as there is strength in numbers, and we were very close to 50% participation in previous years. 

Survey results are released each year in the June/July timeframe, and all results will be in a downloadable PDF format. Gone are the days of waiting for a paper copy and/or a CD to arrive in the mail. And, with the reports being in PDF format, it’s easier than ever to access and archive. No more digging through your desk wondering where your copy went.

Thank you all for making this annual survey so successful in the past! Please help your association continue moving Kansas banking forward so that you can remain competitive in your markets!