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More Value Through Partnership
by Nick Kacher, Esq., SPHR, President, The Employers’ Association
One of our priorities at The Employers’ Association is simple: continually find ways to make TEA membership more valuable to your organization and your employees. Increasingly, that means looking beyond what we can provide on our own and building partnerships that give our members access to greater resources, better information and new opportunities.
For example, through our partnership with Davenport University, employees of TEA member organizations can access significant educational benefits. Eligible employees can receive scholarships of up to $8,000 per year, while eligible dependents can receive up to $6,500 per year toward their education at Davenport. Members also have access to a 20% discount on Davenport IPEX professional development and training programs.
At a time when employers continue to focus on attracting, retaining and developing great people, educational benefits can be much more than a tuition discount. They can provide employees with an opportunity to advance their careers, help families manage the cost of higher education and give employers another meaningful benefit to highlight when recruiting and retaining talent.
We are taking a similar approach with one of TEA’s longest-standing and most important services: compensation data.
This year, TEA has combined its Wage & Salary Survey with ASE, dramatically expanding the pool of participating Michigan employers while maintaining the valuable West Michigan perspective our members have relied upon for decades. Last year, TEA’s survey included 230 West Michigan organizations and compensation information covering approximately 340 jobs across 18 job families. Combining our survey efforts with ASE will nearly triple the number of participating companies, providing TEA members with broader and more valuable set of compensation data.
Better data leads to better decisions. Whether you are benchmarking a difficult-to-fill position, reviewing your overall compensation structure or preparing next year’s salary budget, having reliable and robust Michigan-specific information is increasingly important.
These partnerships represent the direction we want TEA to continue moving: preserving the personal service and local relationships our members value while finding new ways to expand the resources available to them.
More resources. Better data. Greater opportunities for your employees. That is what TEA membership delivers.
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