1. W W W. W A T S O N W Y A T T. C O M Importing Survey Data

2. 176 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

3. 177 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

4. 178 Is Data Ready for Import? Save your finished spreadsheet to a tab delimited text file Upload the tab delimited text file to your FTP

5. 179 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 source 2. Describe the survey 3. Identify the file (from list of FTP’d text files) 4. Map which columns to import 5. Select which cuts (scopes) to import 6. Select which jobs to import

6. 180 Step 1: Specify the survey source Note: Once you enter in a survey source it is available the next time you import.

7. 181 Step 2: Describe the survey Recommended naming convention: Year, Vendor Name, Survey Title Ex: 2003 Radford Benchmark Report

8. 182 Step 3: Identify the file

9. 183 Step 4: Map which columns to import

10. 184 Step 5: Select which cuts (scopes) to import

11. 185 Step 6: Select which jobs to import

12. 186 Completed Survey Import Screen