SPAIG Committee Wants to
Know Your Salary
O
nce again, the Statistical Partnerships organizations, thus eliminating proxy group report-
among Academe, Industry, and ing used for the 1999 and 2003 surveys.
Government (SPAIG) committee of the If you have any comments or suggestions, con-
American Statistical Association will be conducting tact SPAIG Committee Chair Jai Choi at jchoi@
the biannual salary survey of the ASA members
mail.mcg.edu, committee member Rahul Parsa at
employed within business, industry, and govern-
Rahul.Parsa@DRAKE.EDU, or Dias at jdias@mcg.
ment (B/I/G). As in the past, the premise of this edu as soon as possible. n
survey is that there is no salary information for this
group of people or for a comparable group. The
survey objectives include the following:
Volunteers in
To provide current salary
information for B/I/G statisticians
Search of Work
To provide students with starting
statisticians Without Borders
salary information by academic degree
Ready to Begin Project
To provide students and employed
statisticians information about salary potential
Gary shapiro
To provide employers with
salary reference information
To characterize B/I/G
statisticians by several factors
Past surveys were done in 1999, 2003, 2005, and
2007, with results published in Amstat News and post-
ed on SPAIG’s web site (www.svsu.edu/orgs/spaig).
This year, SPAIG has contracted with the
Medical College of Georgia Biostatistics Consulting
and Survey Center (MCG-BCSC) to conduct the
T
he October 2008 issue of Amstat News included a short piece
about the formation of Statisticians Without Borders, solicit-
ing volunteers to do pro bono work related to international
survey. The ASA membership database that identi-
health. The response to this solicitation was amazing, and we have
fies people as working in the B/I/G section provides
many eager and enthusiastic volunteers. Now, we need your help
the frame for the survey. Once again, every effort
to find them work.
will be made to improve the response rate and pro-
Contact Gary Shapiro at
garyshapiro@westat.com with any ideas
vide quality salary information for all subgroups.
for appropriate projects that would benefit from the assistance of a
According to James Dias, director of MCG-
statistician. While we are working with Doctors Without Borders and
BCSC, several design adjustments are to be imple-
will be coordinating with the AAAS Human Rights On-Call Scientists
mented for the 2009 survey. The revised sample
program, we are still looking for interested individuals or organizations
design calls for the development of two samples
that might want help.
of ASA members, one for business and industry
employees and the other for government employ-
Thank You to the Volunteers
ees. Both groups will be stratified by employment
So far, volunteers include Anne-Sophie Charest, Dave Olsen,
duration, dichotomized as ≤ two years or > two
Dongseok Choi, Ed Binkowski, James Long, Jim Cochran (cochair),
years. Advance letters with survey forms will be
John Karon, Jorge Romeu, Justin Fisher, Larry George, Mark Sorell,
mailed, followed with an email survey invitation,
Michael Feldstein, Nicole Carnegie, Phil Gona, Rebecca Scherzer, and
email reminders, and phone calls. Survey items
Safaa Amer. Special thanks to Fritz Scheuren and Steve Pierson, who
reflect responses from individuals, rather than
have been very active in organizing the group. n
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