What do you get in return for reporting your salary to NITO?
When you contribute to NITO's salary statistics, you give yourself knowledge that you can use to raise your own salary. And you give your union representative a better basis for salary negotiations.
The salary statistics are useful for you when you need or want to make an assessment of how your salary compares to the market.
This typically applies in connection with a change of job, if you have been given more responsibility or if you are going to have a salary review to influence your own salary development.
For most people, salary is important, so having knowledge of the salary statistics will be a great advantage. Then you can use NITO's salary statistics to find out what the market salary is for comparable positions in other companies.
You can also compare salaries in the same industries, professions, or geographic areas.
"Your contribution is important. The more people who report their salary, the better the statistics become," says Øyvind Kyrkjebø, subject manager for NITO Privat.
Important tool in annual salary negotiations
Salary negotiations for most members take place in the individual enterprise. This means that it is NITO's union representatives and business groups that carry out the negotiations.
Then they have a number of tools in their toolbox that they can use when preparing and building arguments, making demands and creating expectations in the salary negotiations.
One of the most important tools the union representatives have in the wage negotiations is NITO's salary statistics.
"Therefore, it is important that the wage statistics are good and that the number of respondents is as high as possible," says Kyrkjebø.
