We’re rolling out brand-new, rebuilt surveys designed to better serve YOU—our amazing members! 🚀 While the questions might feel familiar, the surveys have gotten a total glow-up. ✨
Of course, with any shiny new tech, there’s always a chance for a few hiccups (hello, quirky glitches 👾). If you spot anything that seems off, no worries! Just give us a shout, and we’ll jump on it faster than you can say “budget approved.” 💼💡
Thank you for your patience as we polished these surveys to perfection. Now, go ahead—dive in, share your insights, and help shape an even brighter future for all of us! 💪💸
Ready, set, survey! 🖋️🎯
DMO Budget Survey
Budget Allocations in Today’s Environment
Interested to know how your budget stacks up to others in your competitive set? Curious about changing budget allocations in today’s environment? If so, plan to complete the DMO Budget Survey on an annual basis and encourage other member-CEOs to do the same.
The annual DMO Budget Survey is designed to determine member budget classifications and to provide a focus on those items having an impact on a DMO's budget. Participating CEOs will find the DMO profiles useful for planning purposes. Results available via the standard DMO ‘profile’ or download the tabulation version.
Members use the survey information when creating budgets, researching funding sources and planning DMO expenditures.
The DMO Budget Survey is a “members-only” program, with results accessible only to survey participants.
CEO and Staff Salary & Benefits Survey
The purpose of this survey is to determine the salary and benefit schedules of CEOs and staff members, as well as to collect data about such items as employment contracts and benefits.
The survey includes an organization-background data section as well as chief executive officer and staff sections focusing on salaries and benefits.
The survey results provide valuable information for member DMOs to use in planning and budgeting activities. Participating CEOs may download survey summary reports based on operating budgets.
Reminder: If your DMO does not have a comparable position of any listed, leave the salary information blank for that position(s). For example, if your organization does not have a Vice President/Director of Communications, but has a Communications Manager, you would leave the lead-position salary box blank and report the average salary for your organization’s Communications Manager in the appropriate box. For a staff person with multiple department responsibilities, we ask CEOs to report the salary information for that staff person's primary responsibility.
Annually, the current edition of the CEO and Staff Salary & Benefits Survey is available late summer/early fall for completion. As with all DMA West surveys, the salary and benefit survey is a participatory survey, with access to results available only to those member DMOs completing the online survey.
Note - The budget survey will need a handful of completions to generate reports. Once reports have enough data to run reporting, you will be notified.
We use cookies to analyze website traffic and optimize your website experience. By accepting our use of cookies, your data will be aggregated with all other user data.