Annual Salary Survey Bringing home the bacon The 25th Annual Salary Survey indicates positive changes BY KIMBERLIE CLYMA kclyma@sosland.com conomic analysts are beginning to see positive signs of recession recovery in all industries, including meat and poultry. Processing companies are beginning to see profits rise and employees of these fi rms are feeling more positive and satisfied in their jobs. These attitudes are reflected in the results from this year's Annual Salary Survey and Job Satisfaction Report. For 25 years, Meat&Poultry has published the results of the industry's only salary and job satisfaction survey in an effort to provide M&P readers with a toll to stay more competitive with their competition. Space within the magazine does not allow publishing the entire database of information collected during this study, conducted by Kansas City, Mo.based Cypress Research Associates. The following pages only include a snapshot of all the data collected and analyzed. However, readers interested in receiving more in-depth information about this or previous year's surveys are encouraged to contact the editors at: meatpoultry@sosland.com. E Demographic differences It has been three years since the M&P Annual Salary Survey and Job Satisfaction Report surveyed small to mid-size meat and poultry processing companies (with annual sales of less than $100 million). This year's survey was distributed to approximately 2,000 management-level processing company employees. Interestingly, nearly two-thirds of the respondents reported working for companies with sales of less than $35 million (5.3 percent between $25 million and $34.9 million; 7.6 percent between $15 million and $24.9 million; and 52.3 percent less than $15 million). Most of the respondents' firms (46.6 percent) employ less than 25 people. Companies employing between 25 and 99 people make up 14.8 percent of those surveyed; 15.9 percent were from companies with 100 to 199 workers; and 22.7 percent were from larger firms, with more than 200 employees. 24 * Meat&Poultry * July 2010 * www.MeatPoultry.comhttp://www.MeatPoultry.com