It all adds up

I’ve had to rein in my excitement after seeing that the BPIF has undertaken an exercise to gather wages data to help members’ pay planning activities. I think that’s a great move. But can we take things a bit further? As BPIF economist Kyle Jardine explained to me, the activity so far has been to gather stats and put together a downloadable Excel document (for members only) providing an industry specific picture of previous pay patterns, recent changes and trending activities which could be deployed. It stops short of gathering actual pay data from print companies - something that I’ve long wanted to do as part of our Widthwise survey - because as we all know, it’s an extremely complicated situation. Anyone any ideas of how we could do it without going mad?