Salary survey: stand up and be accounted

Recruitment and management consultancy practice Fellows and Associates has just launched its Annual Salary Survey 2014, sponsored this year by The Patent Lawyer magazine. The questions this year have been modified in order to better gather the most important data. In particular, the survey analysis is said to be made simpler to understand, with a separate section specific to the UK market. According to Fellows:

"The survey will take an average of 5 minutes but should take no more than 8 minutes to complete. As a thank you for your time we will enter you into a draw to win a £100 Amazon Gift Card (or equivalent value in alternative currency) when you provide your name and email address at the end".

You can seize this golden opportunity to depress the survey's findings by telling them how much you earn win £100 in value for no more than eight minutes toil by clicking here. There again, £100 for eight minutes works out at only £750 an hour, far less than we would normally expect to charge ...

Feeling depressed? Jealous? It's salary survey time again

The Fellows & Associates Salary Survey for 2013 is now up-and-running. All it needs is for sufficient quantities of good souls to give up a few precious minutes of their lives and engage in some harmless box-ticking.  As the rubric explains:

The survey is intended to provide transparency to the intellectual property market by collecting anonymous objective data that is then published without bias.

Last year’s survey benefitted from the active involvement of Solo IP [that's us!] and IPKat and the results were published in the CIPA Journal in April 2012.

With the success of the survey last year we’ve decided to bring it back again, bigger and better. This year’s survey takes into account your expectations and optimism for the future in IP to gain a more comprehensive review of the IP market. The survey allows a greater understanding of the sector and we are hoping to make it an annual affair to create a consolidated view of the sector across the years.

The survey is now available and will run until the 18th February 2013. Once completed, participants can request to receive an email copy of the results. Data is provided anonymously in order to protect the confidentiality of participants and allow for a more rigorous result.

You can find the survey, in all its glory, here.