Employee compensation guidelines for transit providers in rural and small urban areas.

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KFH Group, Inc.
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TCRP Report 127: Employee Compensation Guidelines for Transit Providers in Rural and Small Urban Areas will be of interest to local transit providers and their governing boards. While the Guidebook largely addresses compensation, it also assists transit providers to recruit, hire and retain qualified employees. The Guidebook is accompanied by an interactive computer tool (located on the TRB website at http://trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=9282) that provides an easy way to explore salary and benefit characteristics of transit systems in rural and small urban areas. The primary purpose of the project was to collect and analyze current compensation data and develop guidelines for employee compensation so that rural and small urban transit managers have a meaningful resource to use when making wage and benefit decisions. The secondary project purpose was to provide transit managers with information that can be used to attract and retain employees in the unique environment and with the challenges faced by rural and small urban transit managers. The Guidebook and interactive computer tool were developed based on quantitative and qualitative information gathered from various sources, including a literature review and previous research, a survey of transit operators, and one-on-one interviews. The primary source of data for the computer tool was a survey of rural and small urban operators across the country. The project team developed and revised the survey instrument and tested it in one state before conducting a nationwide survey. A copy of the survey is included as Appendix A. The interactive computer tool that accompanies this Guidebook allows transit managers to quickly and easily obtain meaningful compensation and benefit data from comparable transit systems. By entering the basic characteristics of a transit system, service area, and operating environment, transit managers will query the database to compute and report salary and benefit characteristics of comparable systems. Section 3 of the report and the TRB website include details on how to use the tool. (Author/publisher)

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20081069 ST [electronic version only]
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Washington, D.C., National Research Council NRC, Transportation Research Board TRB / National Academy Press, 2008, 204 p., 6 ref.; Transit Cooperative Research Program TCRP Report 127, Project F-12 - ISSN 1073-4872 / ISBN 978-0-309-11746-3

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