Meat + Poultry - December 2015 - 24

COVER $TORY

The survey
includes
compensation
and job
satisfaction
data across
15 executive
and mid-level
managment
positions
for large
companies and
13 positions
for smaller
companies.

T

he last time MEAT+POULTRY published
what was then an annual, industryspecific survey of job satisfaction,
salary and benefits was 2010. Just as the
industry has evolved significantly since 2010,
so too did the methodology in surveying
more than 7,400 meat and poultry processing
company executives in management and
upper-management roles. Utilizing the proven
expertise of Kansas City, Mo.-based Cypress
Research Associates, MEAT+POULTRY
commissioned the industry's most current
salary, compensation and job satisfaction
survey in cooperation with the North American
Meat Institute (NAMI). The benchmarking
results are based on 427 completed online
surveys, including MEAT+POULTRY readers
and NAMI members. With a response rate of
approximately 6 percent, responses are divided
by company sizes: those reporting annual sales
of less than $100 million and those reporting
sales in excess of $100 million.

CORPORATE SNAPSHOT
Asked to provide a range of their company's
annual sales, approximately 60 percent
reported sales of over $100 million (designated
as "large companies" in the survey), and 61
percent of those reported sales in excess
of $500 million. Meanwhile, 40 percent of
recipients reported sales of less than $100
million, with the majority of those (48 percent)
reporting sales of less than $20 million.

C OM PA NY- W I D E
GROS S A N N UA L
S A L ES 2 0 1 5
19%
10%
11%
23%
36%

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LESS THAN $20M
$20M-$49M
$50M-$99M
$100M-$499M
$500M +

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As for company operations represented
by the respondents, smaller companies (those
with annual sales of less than $100 million) are
mostly from processing plants (72 percent)
versus slaughtering facilities (28 percent).
Among the survey respondents from large
companies, more than half (57 percent) are
from plants that slaughter livestock versus
the 43 percent that are primarily processing
or further-processing operations. Likewise,
more respondents from larger companies work
in plants that process for export customers
(84 percent) while only 41 percent of those
from smaller companies report processing for
export markets.
Companies processing pork, beef, poultry,
lamb and veal are represented in the results
and the geographic regions they operate in
were evenly distributed in the Midwest, West
and Southeast United States with the fewest
respondents in the Northeast and Southwest.
The survey includes compensation and
job satisfaction data across 15 executive
and mid-level management positions for
large companies and 13 positions for smaller
companies. Demographically, the majority of
all respondents are male (82 percent) with the
highest proportion of them between the age of
45-64 (67 percent).
In terms of education and experience of all
the respondents, the biggest portion of them
reported earning at least a bachelor's degree
(43 percent). Among the large companies,
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