What is the Salary Survey Bulk Report?
Pulling market salary data for one classification is quick in Holly. Pulling it for thirty, for a bargaining unit study or a department-wide compensation review, used to mean opening thirty Market tabs and stitching exports together by hand. The Salary Survey Report does the compilation for you: pick the classifications, and Holly assembles their benchmark salary data into one structured Excel workbook.
Unlike Holly's compliance reports, this report doesn't flag issues or assign statuses. It's a data deliverable, built for the moments when someone outside your team, a union, a department head, a board, needs to see where your classifications sit against the market.
Note: This report compiles the market benchmarks that already exist on each spec. Building or refining the benchmarks themselves, including reviewing and validating comparators, happens on each spec's Market tab. See How to Conduct a Salary Survey for that work. This report is the compilation step, not the benchmarking step.
Common Use Cases
Preparing for Labor Negotiations
Ahead of bargaining, compile benchmark data for every classification in the unit into one workbook. The summary page shows your agency's pay against the market for each surveyed class, which is the page that ends up in front of the negotiating team.
Responding to a Department-Wide Compensation Concern
When an entire office believes it's underpaid, one classification's benchmarks won't settle it. Run the report across the department's classifications to see the pattern, and whether the concern holds across the series or concentrates in specific classes.
Producing a Recurring Compensation Review
For an annual or biennial comp review, run the report on the same spec set each cycle. Because exports are named by report type, title, and date, successive runs stay identifiable side by side outside of Holly.
Running This Report
The Salary Survey Report runs from the Reports section. Unlike the compliance reports that scan every spec automatically, this one asks you to choose: you'll enter a report title and select which of your specs to include. For the steps, see Running Reports for Bulk Analysis.
Warning: The report can only compile benchmarks that exist. Specs whose market benchmarks haven't been generated contribute no data to the export. Before running a report you plan to share, confirm the included specs have current benchmarks and review their comparator sets, as described in How to Conduct a Salary Survey.
Note: Your agency's configuration determines which reports are included for your account, so this report may not be available to you. Questions about your configuration? Contact Holly Support at [email protected].
Understanding Your Export
The report's deliverable is an Excel workbook. For reports covering multiple specs, it opens with a summary page and gives each classification its own tab.
The Summary Page
The summary shows your agency's pay against the market for each surveyed classification, one row per spec, so a reader gets the full picture without opening individual tabs. The summary is built with live Excel formulas: if you add or remove comparators on a classification's tab after exporting, the summary recalculates instead of going stale.
Per-Classification Tabs
Each classification's tab lists its benchmark data: each comparator agency with its job title and minimum, midpoint, and maximum salary figures, the percent difference from your agency at each point, the market median, and your own agency's salary row for direct comparison.
Once your export is out of Holly, the workbook stands on its own: figures, formulas, and file naming are all built for sharing with stakeholders who will never log in.