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Consulting Engineering Firms

WCBC’s CONSULTING ENGINEERS SURVEY

Participation is closed.
Data collection will reopen in February 2025.
Please contact Megan Lizee for more information:

604-683-9155

What positions are covered?

The survey covers over 150 positions in the following function areas:

  • engineers
  • scientists
  • technicians/technologists
  • environmental science
  • executives
  • business development
  • project management
  • finance
  • human resources
  • information technology
  • administrative support
What is the cost?

Non-Participants

  • Full price: $5,800.00
  • With Membership Discount: $4,930.00

Participants

  • Full Participant price: $2,899.00
  • With Membership Discount only: $2,464.15
  • With Membership + Loyalty Discounts: $1,594.45

What is the Membership Discount? Organizations who are members of the ACEC-BC or Consulting Engineers of Alberta receive a 15% discount.

What is the Loyalty Discount? Organizations which participated in 2022 and/or 2023 Consulting Engineers Survey receive an additional 30% discount on the purchase of the 2024 survey.

What data is collected?

Compensation data collected:

  • salary ranges
  • base salaries
  • total cash
  • quality of match
  • hours of work

Compensation data collected:

  • group insurance
  • retirement benefits
  • paid time off
  • compensation policies
  • employment practices
  • actual & planned salary increases
  • hours of work

Geographic regions covered:

  • Canada-wide
How is the data reported?

CompEssentials includes both an excel spreadsheet and pdf report and is available for download with purchase.

WCBC segments data into the most commonly used breakdowns so you can quickly target your salary levels.

Data is both company- and incumbent-weighted and statistical breakdowns include:

  • Average
  • 25th percentile
  • 50th percentile
  • 75th percentile

Data is segmented by:

  • province
  • city
  • revenue
  • full-time employees

CompPlus, our online tool, enables you to:

  • select preferred percentiles (such as P65 or P90) and calculate how your pay compares in the market
  • segment data by:
    • province
    • city
    • economic sector
    • revenue
    • full-time employees
    • industry
  • exclude or include your organization’s data in your analysis (available to participants only)
  • apply an aging factor to the data

CompEssentials is included with CompPlus.

Participants receive complimentary access to CompPlus (a $2,000 value).

What types of organizations are included in this survey?

While the mix of participating organizations varies every year, the typical mix is:

More than 500 - 31%

100 to 500 - 31%

Less than 100 - 38%

Perks of participating

Participating stretches your HR dollars by giving you…

A 50% discount for those who decide to purchase the results

Opportunity for a future 30% loyalty discount

Complimentary access to CompPlus – our online sorting tool

Complimentary report on actual & projected salary increases

Note: Reports are offered exclusively for the internal compensation planning activities of individual employers. Reports are not available to libraries, career placement centers, HR consulting firms or any other entity that could re-sell the data, make it available to the general public or use the data in its commercial activities. WCBC reserves to right to accept or decline participation/purchase requests.

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