INDUSTRY NEWS
2017 NATIONAL GOLF CLUB
SALARY CENSUS
An Important Benchmarking Tool for Golf
Club Managers
One of Golf Management
Australia’s ongoing strategic
focus areas is member
education with this including
provision of resources
and materials to clubs not
otherwise available.
We are therefore pleased
to make available to you
the 2017 GMA National Golf
Club Salary Census Survey, a
follow up to our 2015 national
report.
GMA has engaged Jeff
Blunden of Golf Business
Advisory Services (GBAS) to
administer the survey and
draft the report on its behalf,
which is to be released at the
GMA National Conference in
October this year.
As a benefit of your GMA
membership, the salary report
is to be made available at no
cost to all GMA members who
contribute salary data. For
those who don’t contribute
sufficient data the report will
be available for sale.
To participate we ask that you
enter the current salary data
for up to 18 key employment
positions and answer the
other questions included in
the staffing section of our
GMA benchmark tool.
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Consistent with prior reports
this report will analyse
data by club size (member
numbers) annual fee levels
(7-day), total revenues and
region. Can you please ensure
as a minimum that these
questions are answered
within the benchmark tool, if
not all questions for the year’s
identified below.
• If your current year ends
on or before 30th June
2017 and current salary
levels aren’t to change in
the coming year please
enter your data into the
2016 year in the tool.
• If your current year ends
after 30th June or your
current salary levels are
to change for the coming
financial year please enter
your new data into the
2017 year in the tool.
If you haven’t already done
so, you may also like to enter
prior year data to enable
accurate industry growth
calculations to be made. If
you require any assistance in
populating your data please
email John Stamp on
[email protected].
Please be assured that all data
contributed will be treated
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LINK TO BENCHMARKING SITE:
www.golfclubbenchmarking.com.au
in a confidential manner
with all published data to
be aggregated by various
comparison mechanisms so
that you can compare to ‘like
clubs’. If you would like your
salary data removed from the
benchmarking tool once the
survey and data collection
period is complete please
advise by email to support@
golfclubbenchmarking.com.
au.
Please be advised that the
data collection period will
close at 5.00pm on Saturday,
1st July 2017.
We look forward to your
participation in this project.
Kind Regards,
The Board
Golf Management Australia