Participate in the Online Surveys to Increase the Value of the Data
Attn: DMA West-member CEOs (or the Designated Representative from a member DMO)
LOGIN INFORMATION - Your username and password are the same for each of the surveys listed below.
Before you begin a survey, please make certain that your browser is up to date.
Click on one of the survey links below to BEGIN a new edition of either annual survey.
NOTE: If you have COMPLETED the annual edition of a survey, click on the corresponding survey link to access the results data.
Please do not use Internet Explorer to participate in the surveys. Google Chrome or Firefox is preferred.
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
Remember, the more member DMOs that participate in the surveys, the more valuable the data.
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.
In the last few years, we made significant changes in the Staff Salaries section of the Salary and Benefits Survey. We discontinued using staff position titles. CEOs are asked to report staff salary information by key function areas at various levels from executive level to support level.
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.